Ruut, yes if you know your friends it is the best way to organize things. Sometimes I think that the painfully high prices for some offers are not the value for the tour, food, hotel, planning, etc. I think the value for the people who book it so expensively is to hope that they are only with other people who also book it expensively. It's a kind of warranty of the same madness and/or social class you buy into, those who want to distance themselves.
