What is a backpack tour
Once you’re in Barcelona, your luggage is in the hotel and you are ready, there is a whole city just for you. It’s your choice to choose what to do, but we’re sure you want to see the most famous places in Barcelona.
You have many choices, but today we want to talk to you about two of them involving city tours. You can choose either doing a backpack tour or a guided tour. One is for the adventurous, and the other one lets the professionals show you the deepest secrets of the city. Which will you choose? Let’s see each other’s pros and cons, so you can see the big picture and decide what to choose.
A backpack tour is a tour in which you are on your own. You have to do most of the work: deciding where to go, planning the visits, checking the time and making sure that everything goes perfect. Is it for you or it isn’t? let’s have a look at the pros and cons:
Pros
- You are the leader: you can choose what to do, when to do it, and where.
- A true exploring experience: you choose the place to go, and probably you will find some secret place that no guided tour can take you to.
- You don’t depend on anyone, so the experience is really customized. Are you done with the place before time? Better, so you can add another one on the go.
Cons
- You will miss many places that you do not know, and that a guided tour can show you almost exclusively.
- The facts: you won’t know all the historic facts that a guide does know. Sad but true.
- Any problem or trouble that happens will be more difficult to handle if you are not in a guided tour.
WHAT IS A GUIDED TOUR
A guided tour lets the guide call the shots: he or she will take you to the places marked on the plan and tell you all about it. Are you ready to know if you will like it?
Pros
- You will know everything about the places you visit. The guide will be a professional trained to tell you every tiny detail about every monument. You will have stories for weeks to tell your friends.
- No worries at all: if you’re not very good at planning, and you find very difficult to organize a trip, this is your choice.
Cons
- The schedule is so tight that you will have just the time to do what you’ve been told. No time for improvising at all.
- Lack of spontaneity: everything is planned.
So now you have all the facts. It’s your choice to decide which one do you prefer better: the backpack tour or the guided tour. Whatever you chose, there is something for sure: Barcelona will be the trip of your life. Enjoy it however you want!