What's Cool About About Us (we're NOT your parents tour company)

We're fairly sure you've never seen a travel company quite like ours before.

We are very small and very unique...we like to think we lead travelers...not tourists...all over the planet. We don't run hundreds of tours to every spot in the world. Instead, we lead very personalized journeys to just a few of the most fascinating places. And unlike mainstream tour companies, we like to rotate our destinations so there are new horizons to explore. Start traveling with us...and have experiences that will change your life.

Read on to find out more about what makes our tours so fun...

Attitude

Many terms can be used to describe our journeys; laid-back, fun loving and free wheeling are just a few that come to mind. Of course, we take good care of all the important stuff like accommodations and the like, but we leave plenty of opportunities for what we call “getting lost” or exploring on your own, with your friends or with your group leader. Over the years, we’ve learned that the “getting lost” attitude allows us to experience all the fun and truly fond memories we bring home after a tour. We’ll take the real spontaneous fun over the pre-planned canned stuff any day!

Off The Beaten Path

There are plenty of over-crowded bus tours, monstrous cruise ships and mega-resorts out there that typify what we think is the worst sort of tourism. We think a day spent on a vacation like that is a fate worse than death...and a day of your life you'll never get back. At Go Get Lost we prefer to get off the beaten path and mix it up with locals. Most of our trips are active...walking, hiking, sailing, or whatever we feel is the best way to see the countryside and experience the excitement that an area has to offer.

The “Anti-Group” Tour

We have a wide variety of activities and experiences in our trips...from sailing adventures in Indonesia to walking tours in Europe to safaris in Africa. Each type of trip lends itself to a different size of group. For example, the most we’ll have on a walking tour is 18, our Via Ferrata hiking tours average 10, and most of our tropical adventures have around 14-22 travelers. These are the best sized groups to let us enjoy the advantages of group travel without having the usual mega- tour size of 50-75 people. Our small groups also allow enough diversity and camaraderie among the group to provide for an interesting 8 or 9 days. We organize our tours so that we're more like a band of friends traveling together rather than a highly-structured and impersonal crowd of strangers with a "herder" group leader. You won't find any "Hello, my name is" badges in our groups, or anything else that makes us look like tourists!

The Owners Walk the Walk

There are dozens of huge tour companies with enormous glossy catalogs that look like coffee table books...and of course they have hundreds upon hundreds...sometimes thousands of tours each year. We don't roll that way. In fact, we're committed to keeping our company small and personal. Why? Because our owners actually lead many of our tours, and the last thing they want is to be cooped up in an office shuflling papers and crunching numbers for a big travel company! They prefer to spend their time "in the field", with the groups, having fun!Go Get Lost is part of a family business owned by Jeff and Steve Fafoglia, who have beoen leading groups of adventurous travelers all over the world since 1994. They have built a team of some of the best local group leaders and guides on the planet, but even so, it's not unusual to find at least one, if not both, of the Go Get Lost owners accompanying the group on many of the adventures.  They LOVE traveling and they LOVE to personally introduce new faces to their favorite spots. 

Affordable

Almost all our advertising is word-of-mouth, this keeps prices down! Compare our trips to competitors like Backroads or Wilderness Traveler, and you’ll find that our tours are longer, with smaller groups, and are 30-50% cheaper! (AND we’re more fun!) Our "return rate" upholds that ...we’re proud of the fact that over half of our travelers are repeat customers, some on their 10th or 12th trip with us!

Friends!

There’s nothing like a shared experience to bond people together and form friends out of strangers.  Our groups are all about having fun and making friends while exploring the most fascinating and exciting places in the world.  Check out the Word-On-The-Street section on our website and read what previous travelers have to say.