I've heard that a lot of former and current Rick Steves guides start there own company or tour other places during the offseason for Rick. Particularly places outside of Europe (Asia, Australia, Africa, South America).
Ive been able to find Adventures with Sarah and Imprint Tours. Does anyone else have any other Guides that now offer tours?
These are still in Europe. I did both of them in 2022(Scottish isles and Iceland). We are doing both again back to back in May-June ( southwest England and outer Hebrides Scotland).
Seymour travels (mark Seymour plus other guides with him). Igot2travel with James McCletchie.
Apostolos Douras, a terrific guide & person, was our Athens & the Heart of Greece in October. He also has his own company- Wonders of Knowledge- with individual and small group tours of Greece.
Yes, some have gone on their own….
Véro is a current RS guide and has her own company. I follow her on FaceBook at France with Véro. She’s amazing.
Lyuba Tours is run by two of Rick Steves guides, Stefan and Yuri. They were excellent on my RS tour in Bulgaria! Lyuba offers many trips that are off the beaten path - the Balkans, the “Stans, etc.
Also, SRM Tours in Turkey is affiliated with RS and runs other tours.
I believe that the Bulgarian and Turkish guides (and companies they are a part of) were operating before RS partnered with them, not the other way around. In some countries, RS has to use local guides probably for reasons of practicality (he has no deep bench of epertise in those places) and law.
