Taking a vacation in Europe? What type of trip should you plan? This will depend on how you like to travel personally and how much of the planning you want to do yourself. I have included here some of the most popular ways to see Europe.

Motor coach Tours

This is a great way to travel if you don't want to make too many decisions. There are different touring styles now such as Free and Easy/ Independent tours where you take advantage of the group pricing but on arrival in each city you go on your own. Transportation, hotels and any pre booked sightseeing is included, but the rest of the time is on your own. This works well in major cities such as London, Paris, Amsterdam, Venice, Rome, Vienna and Prague Discovery/Panorama Tours are great for seeing the most destinations in a shorter period of time. Good for first timers to Europe who want to see many countries, in future they will come back and spend more time in their favourites.

Regional Tours means you spend more time in 1 or 2 countries with longer stays at each, so that you immerse yourself into that region-where you are might take cooking classes, do wine tasting tours, take language classes.

Cruising

Pack and unpack only once- isn't that great? You need to pick the area of Europe that you want to seethe Mediterranean, The Greek Isles and Turkey, The Baltic, Northern Europe, the Canary Islands or The British Isles. If you choose to take a river cruise the number of guests are around 100. The major areas to see on a river cruise is through the Dutch and Belgian Waterways, on the Rhine and Danube Rivers through Germany, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania; on the Seine Rivers through France; on the Douro River through Portugal and Spain; on the Volga River in Russia or on the Nile River in Egypt. With river cruises almost all of your excursions are included.

Semi Independent

This is a great way to see countries such as Greece or Italy. You take advantage of group pricing for flights and hotels and transportation in between the cities or islands, but in each destination, you are on your own. Do island hopping in Greece to islands such Mykonos, Santorini, Rhodes and Athens. Or in Italy, plan to stay 3 or 4 nights in the major areas such as Venice, Rome, the Amalfi Coast, Tuscany- sightsee in each one and travel by rail in between.

Whichever way you choose to see Europe, you will enjoy every minute!