Alaska Caravan

we took a caravan in 2004 with Creative World Tours, after the death of the owner it was taken over by Fantasy Tours. It was the best vacation we have ever had, and the most expensive. I would take another tour in a heart beat, but they are just too expensive for us now. As for the 'rigid' schedule, that is a bunch of bull. On our tour 3 times we broke away on our own, then rejoined later. Yea things are preplanned. They have to be. But, you will do more, see more than you ever would on your own. As for 'breaking down and left on your own' I just do not believe it. The tail gunner would never do that. Their job is to be the last one out and the last to arrive. If you take off on your own then you are 'on your own' as we did. There must have been some other factor involved.
I find it amusing that those who 'would never take a caravan' have never been on one. We are planning to go back to Alaska next year, 2016, this time on our own, but if I get rich before then we will take a paid caravan.