New itineraries coming?

Thanks Barbara! I just signed up. Can’t wait to see what’s new!
Kathy

I saw that too! I’m excited to learn what’s coming. I’m hoping for a week in Berlin.

Thanks for the heads up! I’m hoping for some new my ways.

https://www.ricksteves.com/tours/tour-news

Link for those who are not on the email list. It’s great to see Francesca is still guiding. Presumably still in Rome. She was our local guide on my very first RS tour. Best of Rome in 7 Days. That tour got me hooked. I’m looking forward to seeing what new tours they offer.

How fun, new tours on the horizon. Thanks for posting this, I see my guide Andrea from the Villages of Italy tour is hosting the Italy night, I'm signed up for that one, but we will be ironically on a RS Tour in London when the new tours are announced, but I'll catch up with it later.

I noticed too that you can now sort tours by "seats available" on the tour page. I know several people have asked for that. Hoping also for a couple more MyWay tours and I did see a show with Rick where he mentioned a tour to Romania.

Thanks, Barbara!

Thanks, Barbara, very exciting indeed!

Hoping for a My Way Scandinavia tour.

Guessing one of the new itineraries might be Provence and the French Riviera. A new guidebook just dropped. It is more in depth look at this area than the France guidebook.

Probably a tour of Iceland. It's already one of the forum countries and RS has a guidebook printed.
The Greece guidebook now includes Naxos, Paros, Folegandros, and Rhodes. Maybe a tour of the Greek Islands and Crete?

Thanks for posting. After I signed up I realized I have a conflict--darn! I'll have to watch the video.

I just emailed the tour office to see if they can provide any hints for us dedicated forum members. :-) I'll let you know what they say.

Hello,

These should be announced during the Festival of Tours next month, so be sure to tune in!

Thanks Rich!!! i guess we will have to remain in suspense until next month. :-)

Thanks for highlighting this new development. Perhaps RS will finally add the Greek Isles (Mykonos, Delos, Thera/Santorini, Crete, Rhodes etc.) to the lineup which would be awesome.

This is exciting. Stan and I have been tossing ideas around about which tour to take next year; guess we'll need to wait a few more weeks to see what our choices are!

I know, Jane. I was thinking Switzerland for next year but now I have to wait and see. I'm assuming they won't start selling the 2027 season until after that episode of the Festival. Who knows?! I don't think they want people booking something and then switching over to a new itinerary tour.

Wow, some good ideas being mentioned. I like the idea of something in the area of Berlin. Something perhaps for northern Germany and a bit of Scandinavia? Maybe something featuring the Rhine down to Basel - taking in parts of the Black Forest or Alsace? Also a few more during December??

So many possibilities! Thanks for being creative, Rick Steves team.

It's so exciting to have new tours to consider! It would be great to see more tours to Northern and Alpine locations so that people who can only travel during the summer months have more choices. Iceland, Best of Norway, Finland and the Baltics, Scotland's Highlands and Islands, etc.

I predict a new My Way Britain tour. Perhaps also the Village Italy model, with its emphasis on somewhat slower travel and more culinary experiences, will be applied to other regions.

A My Way Britain would be awesome. We did the My Way France tour last September and it was everything we'd hoped it would be.

I'm going to say "Iceland." Just a hunch........

Didn’t Rick say once, he would never offer an Iceland tour? Hmmmmm. …….

I'm so excited to find out! I would love to see another tour in the Balkans. I absolutely loved Best of the Adriatic, but one night in Bosnia wasn't nearly enough. A deeper dive into Bosnia with a couple of others like Albania or North Macedonia would be amazing!

I would enjoy a MyWay Britain. Great ideas!

In his most recent Facebook post, Rick mentions the Festival of Tours, which will highlight new itineraries in Scandinavia, Greece and Portugal.

https://www.facebook.com/ricksteves/

Thanks, Carrie!

Yes, more My Way Tours would be great! Love the idea of one in Great Britain..

Ooooh, a My Way Portugal, maybe?

Carrie, thank you very much for that helpful "heads up" on the new itineraries. I suspect that "Scandinavia" is likely to include the addition of Iceland since it is already featured in the new RS guidebook and is a listed forum country. Finland would be a nice addition as well. For "Greece" I'm hoping it's the Greek Isles (at last, just Hydra doesn't do it) now that they are being listed in the guidebook. It'll be interesting what the addition on Portugal will include since it already has a 12-day tour and is a relatively small country. I believe that there used to be a combined Spain - Portugal tour but I no longer see it listed, perhaps it's being added back? I guess we'll know the final answer on 4/23 unless there are more teasers to be released beforehand.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could choose one tour to be added to RS Tours list? I’d definitely choose My Way Britain.

FYI, two years ago the new season of tours started being released on April 15 or 16, 2024. I remember it because I was on the South England tour in Canterbury when I signed up for 3 more tours in 2025. I’m paying particular attention this year to sign up for the Poland tour next year; they fill up fast.

My guess is that they will be releasing next year's tours on the first day of the festival. They won't start talking about the tours without them being available to book.