In your experience how often, if you booked such a tour, have others actually signed up? And is the cost split among whoever shows up?
Would you then be able to find out how many are signed up before paying and therefore leave the option to cancel - according to their minimum requirements of course.
In my experience that would mean there are a maximum of 10 people on the tour, each paying the published price. Cancellations are tricky - they can cancel pretty much any time, you have a specific deadline. No, they probably aren't going to give you information on the others on the trip. But wouldn't that be nice if they did!?!
If you tell us what tour you're looking at and the price you've seen, someone here will probably be able to tell you whether it's a per-person price. My default assumption is that I'm looking at the price I would pay, but I have occasionally seen pricing that was clearly per group.
If they are quoting a price for a private tour, it could very well be the total cost for the group - and that tour would be sold to one set of people signing up together, it would not be "open registration." If they are quoting a per person price, then that is your cost - you will not be expected to add to it if there are less than 10 people who sign up. However, they may cancel (read the small print) the tour if not enough people sign up to make it financially viable.
If they say "up to 10", why would you want to cancel if indeed you could know how many are signed up? Are you saying if there were only 4-5 people on the tour, you wouldn't want to take it?
I have a friend in Prague that runs small group tour ,up to 6 people and the price is per person,he goes even if only one person is booked and they only pay the fee for one person.
If as others have said it is a private tour then the fee will be for the tour with up to 10 people on it.
I would think that after the GDPR data protection laws went live a couple of weeks ago no company will just share client lists.
Thanks guys. I will ask one of the tour operators as suggested but what most of you say makes sense. The stated price is MY price.
Guess these tours can either hit a bonanza - 10 people showed for 2-3,000 euros or only 2 - and they cancel.
