What are the opening hours?

Monday 8am - 6pm Tuesday 8am - 6pm Wednesday 8am - 6pm Thursday 8am - 6pm Friday 8am - 6pm

UnTours

🌍 UnPack Once in your European villa or apartment - trip planning, transportation & local support 🧳 UnTour (ən-tʊər): n. 1.

Vacation rental apartment packages with air/ground/support. 2. Vacation enabling one to live in a country instead of just traveling through. 3. Hassle-free trip planning with experts.

09/05/2026

Costa Rica hasn’t had an army since 1948. 🇨🇷 And once you know a little more about why, you start to see the country differently.

In 1948, Costa Rica abolished its standing army. Instead, the country went on to invest heavily in things like education, healthcare and the well-being of its people.

Over the decades, it also became a world leader in conservation. Costa Rica covers less than 0.04% of Earth’s land surface, yet it’s home to around 5% of the planet’s biodiversity, with more than a quarter of the country protected.

And that is the kind of thing we love knowing about a place before we travel there.

Because when you understand a little of Costa Rica’s history, the rainforests, extraordinary wildlife and even that famous Pura Vida you hear everywhere become part of a much bigger story.

That curiosity is a big part of being an UnTourist. You don’t just want to see what makes a place beautiful. You want to understand a little more about what makes it it.

And Costa Rica gives you plenty to be curious about. 🇨🇷

If you’ve been, what did you learn about Costa Rica that you wish more people knew? 👇

And if this has made you curious to experience it for yourself, head to https://www.untours.com/destinations/costa-rica to explore our Costa Rica UnTours. We have two different home bases, so you can choose the Costa Rica you most want to get to know, or combine the two if you’d like to experience both. ☀️

09/03/2026

Dreaming of somewhere warmer this winter? ☀️

You might have noticed we’ve started recommending cruises alongside our UnTours.

And if your first thought was, “Wait… UnTours does cruises?” we understand. 😅

Because these aren’t the enormous ships with thousands of passengers that probably just popped into your head.

They’re carefully chosen small-ship cruises, with expert local guides, fewer passengers and itineraries built around wildlife, nature and places that larger ships simply can’t reach.

In other words, they give curious, independent-minded travelers a way to experience places where traveling by small ship actually makes sense.

This winter, we’re especially dreaming about:
🐋 Baja California for blue whales and sea lions.
🌴 Costa Rica for rainforests, kayaking and incredible biodiversity.
🚢 Costa Rica & Panama for wildlife and a full daytime transit of the Panama Canal.
🦎 Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands for some of the world’s most extraordinary wildlife encounters.

Now for the impossible decision: you can escape winter for ONE. Which are you choosing? 👇

And if you’re still thinking, “But I’m not a cruise person”… you might want to take a look before you decide. 👀

Head to https://www.untours.com/travel-styles/cruises to explore the full collection. We’ve chosen every one because we think they’ll appeal to the same curious travelers who’ve been exploring differently with UnTours for almost 50 years

09/01/2026

If Spain is already on your travel wish list… you might want to make a little more room. 🇪🇸

Because whenever someone tells us they want to go to Spain, we find ourselves asking the same question:

Which Spain?

The Spain where you learn very quickly that every pintxos bar has something it does best? The Spain of Moorish palaces, whitewashed Andalusian towns and centuries of history? Or the Barcelona where you find your neighborhood café, shop at the market and gradually work out which streets you like wandering down most?

Spend enough time in each and you start to understand just how different they are.

And that’s exactly the kind of travel we love.

Rather than trying to squeeze three regions into one whirlwind trip, an UnTour gives you the time and your own home base to get to know one properly. You have local support and recommendations when you want them, but plenty of freedom to follow your own curiosity too.

Which is why we’re especially excited about Spain in 2027. 🇪🇸

Alongside our Classic UnTours in Barcelona, the Basque Country and Andalusia, we’re expanding our Small Group collection with our Basque Country Food & Wine UnTour and a brand-new Andalusia History & Culture Small Group UnTour.

So whether you’ve been traveling with us for years or have only just discovered UnTours, there are now even more ways to find your Spain.

Now for the difficult bit…

You get one week: Barcelona, Basque Country or Andalusia. Where are you going? 👇

And send this to the person you’d take with you. 🇪🇸

08/30/2026

Most people eat the wrong pintxos in San Sebastián 🫣

Jon, our UnGuide in the Basque Country, says he sees it all the time.

Visitors wander into a busy bar, point at whatever looks good and move on to the next one. The food is still delicious, but they’ve completely missed what makes San Sebastián’s food culture so special.

Every bar has the dish it’s known for. Some pintxos are waiting on the counter. Others should only ever be ordered fresh from the kitchen. Unless someone shows you the ropes, you’d never know the difference.

That’s why one of the highlights of our Basque Country Food & Wine UnTour is spending an evening exploring the Old Town with Jon. Along the way, he shares the stories behind the food, introduces you to the traditions, recommends the local wines and takes you to the places he’d choose himself.

By the end of the evening, you’ve tasted an incredible variety of pintxos without repeating a single one. But you’ve also learned how to pintxos-hop for yourself, what to order where, and a little more about why people here eat this way in the first place.

That’s what we love about this UnTour. You still have all the freedom that makes an UnTour an UnTour, but experiences like this give you the local knowledge to explore with a little more confidence and curiosity for the rest of your stay.

Our next Basque Country Food & Wine UnTour is already sold out 👀, but we have May and September 2027 departures coming up. If this sounds like your kind of trip, we wouldn’t leave it too long.

Send this to the person you’d happily pintxos-hop around San Sebastián with. 🍷🧀

08/28/2026

The secret to traveling with teens? Stop trying to fill every minute ⌚

After a week in Dunblane, Scotland, with her 13- and 16-year-olds, Lesley came home with three tips that can make family travel better almost anywhere:

🏡 Build in real downtime
Teens need space to sleep in, decompress, and occasionally do absolutely nothing. An UnTour homebase gives everyone room to spread out, plus the flexibility to change plans without derailing the day.

🗺️ Give them a vote
Ask each teen to choose one thing they genuinely want to do, then build around it. Lesley’s family ended up exploring Glasgow’s architecture and Edinburgh’s Camera Obscura because her kids helped steer.

📚 Choose experiences with human connection
A great local guide can turn “Do we have to?” into genuine curiosity. In Scotland, that meant handling centuries-old books and hearing stories they never would have discovered on their own.

This is where fully supported independent travel with UnTours really shines. You have a comfortable home base, local support, and meaningful experiences built in, but also enough independence to take it easy, follow a teenager’s curiosity, or change the plan completely.

That leaves more room to actually enjoy being together 💚

Read Lesley’s blog post on traveling with teens at https://www.untours.com/blog/castles-coos-and-slow-mornings and let us know in the comments below if you have any tips to add! 👇

08/26/2026

Oaxaca’s food is unlike anywhere else in Mexico. 🇲🇽

Thanks to its Indigenous heritage, incredible biodiversity and traditions passed down through generations, many of the region’s signature dishes simply don’t exist anywhere else in the country. And the ingredients, techniques and flavors can change from one village to the next.

Which means there’s an awful lot to taste, but also an awful lot to understand.

And that’s exactly why we created our Oaxaca Food & Wine UnTour.

It’s a small-group trip that still gives you the freedom to explore Oaxaca on your own, but with people who can take you beyond simply eating something delicious. You’ll visit markets, meet local food producers, taste dishes where they’re made and learn about the people, ingredients and traditions behind them.

Basically, if food is one of the main reasons you travel, we made this one for you. 😋

📅 Our December departure still has a few spaces available.
https://www.untours.com/destinations/mexico/oaxaca/flavors-of-oaxaca

Know someone who plans their vacations around what they’re going to eat? Send them this.

08/24/2026

What does a week in Central Scotland look like when you’re an UnTourist? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Well, your home for the week might be a cottage on the grounds of a castle. That’s not a bad start.

From there, Scotland is yours to get to know. You could spend a day exploring Edinburgh or Glasgow, head into the Highlands and take the scenic route through Glencoe, wander around Stirling, discover somewhere completely unexpected like Jupiter Artland, or simply see what catches your attention closer to home.

And you’re not left to figure it all out alone. Your local UnGuide helps you get your bearings when you arrive and shares the places, recommendations and practical advice that make independent exploring a whole lot easier.

In Edinburgh, you can also join our UnTours Foundation partners at Invisible Cities for a walking tour led by someone who has experienced homelessness, offering a perspective on the city you’re unlikely to get from a guidebook.

That’s Central Scotland, UnTours style. You see the castles and landscapes you came all this way for, but you also have the time and freedom to discover everything in between.

And yes, we highly recommend making room for a Sunday roast and at least one Highland coo. 🐮

Which day from this carousel would you steal for your own Scotland trip? 👇

📍You can explore our Central Scotland UnTour at https://www.untours.com/destinations/united-kingdom/central-scotland

08/22/2026

Last week, some very lucky UnTourists got to watch day turn to night over the vineyards of northern Spain. 🌑

On August 12, a total solar eclipse passed over the Basque Country, putting parts of the region directly in the path of totality.

And we were lucky enough to be there!

Our special Eclipse UnTour took our travelers into La Rioja, where the day started at a family-run winery, with a visit to its 16th-century underground caves and a tasting of local wines.

Later, they headed into the vineyards for a hilltop picnic before settling into a private viewing spot, away from the crowds, with an astronomy expert on hand to talk them through what was happening overhead.

And then, for a few extraordinary moments, the moon completely covered the sun. 🌑

Our UnGuide Jon just sent us these photos and we couldn’t resist sharing them.

The eclipse may have been a rare event, but luckily you don’t need to wait for another one to experience the Basque Country with us. 🇪🇸

Our Basque Country UnTours run throughout the year, including special Food & Wine departures for anyone who’d happily plan an entire vacation around pintxos, Rioja and really good meals.

Who else would have loved to be standing in that vineyard? 🙋

08/20/2026

This might be our favorite kind of cooking class. 🇬🇷

Mostly because the cooking is only part of it.

It starts on a family-run organic farm in the hills outside Nafplio, a beautiful seaside town in Greece’s Peloponnese.

Before anyone even thinks about heading into the kitchen, you’re picking oranges straight from the tree, chatting with the family about how they grow everything and learning little things you’d probably never think to ask. Like why all the orange trees have white trunks. (It’s not just for looks. 👀)

One thing leads to another and suddenly you’re collecting eggs, tasting whatever happens to be ripe that day and talking about Greek food, farming and everyday life. Eventually, you make your way into the kitchen to cook stuffed tomatoes and peppers with ingredients grown just a few meters away.

And somewhere along the way, it stops feeling like a cooking class.

You’re simply spending time with a Greek family who are letting you into their world for a little while.

That’s exactly the kind of experience we love on an UnTour. The ones that help you understand a place through the people who actually live there, and leave you knowing something you didn’t know that morning.

Be honest: would you be more excited about the cooking, or nosing around the farm and asking the family a million questions? 😂👇

08/18/2026

The Basque tradition we could all do with a little more of 👇

Poteo. 🍷

It’s the Basque habit of meeting friends or family for a drink and a pintxo before lunch or dinner, moving from bar to bar and catching up along the way.

And around lunchtime and early evening, you’ll see it happening everywhere. Bars fill with friends talking over each other, glasses are poured, a Gilda or two might appear, and nobody seems in too much of a hurry to get to dinner.

It’s one of those little traditions you could easily see happening without realizing there was a name for it.

Which is exactly why we love having Jon, our Basque UnGuide, around. He doesn’t just tell you where to eat. He helps you understand how people here eat, drink and spend time together, so you can head out and experience it for yourself.

And if learning about a place through its food sounds like your kind of UnTour, our next Basque Country Food & Wine departure is already sold out, but there are still spaces for:

📆 May 8–15, 2027
📆 September 11–18, 2027

So, can we make poteo a thing everywhere please? 😂🍷

📍 Head to https://www.untours.com/destinations/spain/basque-country to learn more about our Basque UnTours.

Address

P. O. Box 405
Media, PA
19063

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 6pm
Tuesday	8am - 6pm
Wednesday	8am - 6pm
Thursday	8am - 6pm
Friday	8am - 6pm

Website

http://www.untours.com/, http://www.untours.com/blog

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when UnTours posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to UnTours:

Want your business to be the top-listed Travel Agency in Media?