7 Reasons Not to Book a Packaged Tour if You are Traveling Solo

Author sitting on a bench in Lisbon, Portugal

Four of us are walking the Camino de Santiago, the Portuguese Way, in March. The group we hooked up with gave us a reasonable price which includes hotel accommodations, breakfast every day, two dinners, and transportation of our luggage to the next town. That’s it. The rest is up to us. There is no guide. We are walking.