Review: Luxury Cruising

By Lucy Fernandez, Owner As an owner of the Fernandez family’s Affordabletours.com, I’ve been fortunate these past 10 years to experience many, many remarkable travel opportunities, from tours to river cruises, to ocean cruises. That said, two weeks ago when I embarked on the Silversea Spirit for their twelve day Mediterranean cruise from Istanbul to…

A Guide to Tour Quality and Price

One of the great features AffordableTours.com’s partners offer is the ability to take a vacation within any size budget. (Hey, that’s why we’re called ‘Affordable Tours’, after all.) Through AffordableTours.com, you can book vacations across any price range and comfort level. Our budget vacations allow the fiscally conscious to still enjoy a holiday without worrying…

Mystical Machu Picchu

Often called the “Lost City of the Incas,” Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian, Incan site that sits nearly 8,000 feet above sea level in Peru. It is perched on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley northwest of Cusco. Hidden in the mountains, this mysterious site was seemingly not found nor destroyed by the Spaniards…