Package holidays, vacations where everything is included, are becoming increasingly popular. Everything is prepared for you. Once you get to the airport, it is up to the tour guide to see that you get safely to your destination. On the tour you make friends and have a good time but there is very little chance that you will get to know the local people. This is even more likely on a bus tour, when you spend most of your time traveling. Of course, there are carefully planned stops for you to visit historic buildings and places of interest. You may visit the historic, the beautiful, the ancient but time is always limited. There is always another disadvantage of having to spend your holiday with a group of people you have never met before. This means that you can be stuck with a group of people you have nothing in common with and no shared interests other than the fact that you are having the same holiday together. Many people do make good friends on package holidays and this friendship can last for many years with many friends keeping in touch when they return home.