Destination All Destinations Central America norway by land and coast Africa Antarctica Asia Scandinavia South America. Whether you're looking for independent travel or guided tours, Borton Overseas can help you craft an unforgettable trip. We're not a travel agency; we're a team of travel enthusiasts who use our first-hand knowledge and experiences to create customized and signature journeys to extraordinary lands.
Our staff of Destination Specialists are ready to tailor a custom journey that will bring your travel dreams to life! You work one-on-one with a personal, dedicated Destination Specialist who will prepare a customized itinerary for you. Our Destination Specialists have lived, studied, and traveled extensively in the countries and regions we offer and have a passion for what they do.
Our staff of Destination Specialists are ready to tailor a custom journey that will bring your travel dreams to life! You work one-on-one with a personal, dedicated Destination Specialist who will prepare a customized itinerary for you. Our Destination Specialists have lived, studied, and traveled extensively in the countries and regions we offer and have a passion for what they do.
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You would need to look far and wide to find a travel provider that has been around as long as Borton Overseas. We are a proud and well-established Minneapolis-based tour operator, with a history that spans over a century. Borton Overseas began in 1894 as Sunden, Vanstrum, and Co., specializing in steamship travel for immigrants coming to the US from Scandinavia.
Our Destination Specialists and Support Staff are highly qualified, experienced professionals, and our most valuable assets. They use their heritage, education, travel experiences, and personal interests to contribute to our expanding travel programs. Our clients benefit from their expertise and their enthusiasm!
Choosing Borton Overseas means choosing a tour operator with more than 100 years in the travel industry. It means choosing to work with Destination Specialists who have intimate knowledge of our destinations, are passionate about what they do, and who will be as excited as you are while designing your custom journey.
We focus our expertise on select destinations, and our staff of specialists experience these destinations personally, where they obtain valuable, firsthand knowledge. Our strong partnerships with respected, reliable local travel providers in our destinations ensure exclusive experiences and exceptional service for our clients.
Africa's unforgettable sights and sounds are calling. Are you ready to answer? With our help, it will be easy and extraordinary to create the ultimate vacation package to Africa. Let's get started planning your journey. Borton Overseas creates customized journeys to Africa, each crafted with your travel preferences in mind and developed to give you more than just a taste of this remarkable continent.
Reviews (13)
Mary Beth Mohn
Mar 24, 2020
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We highly recommend Borton Overseas, despite the fact that (due to the Coronavirus pandemic) we had to cancel our trip! We were planning a private safari-oriented family trip that involved meeting up with our youngest daughter who was serving in the Peace Corps in Namibia. It was a bit confusing with us trying to coordinate five schedules (two parents, three adult children) but in all of our planning our agent, Andrea Berger, was patient and helpful. When it became clear that we wouldn't be able to travel (our daughter was evacuated home by the Peace Corps), Andrea worked with the in-country vendors
Kathy Born
Jan 01, 2020
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Borton Overseas travel put together a terrific package of travel, hotels, and guides! The guide, Anna, even found our relatives and arranged meetings with them! She gave us a tour of the area, brought us to our relatives, drove us around to family places, and translated as well. We had a terrific visit to the Sundsvall area of Sweden. Then I went on further to Karlstad, Sweden, and to Oslo. My hotels and guide were again perfect for me. Borton even told me how to get from the airport to my hotel, with maps!!
Greg Sutter
Dec 14, 2019
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Lori Balstad
Apr 13, 2019
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Gary Lynn
Nov 08, 2018
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Linda Barneson
Nov 05, 2018
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Robert Chinnock
Oct 28, 2018
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Our core group of 4 adults met with Borton Travel to review our travel objectives for Norway and Sweden for a larger group of 11 spanning over two weeks and with a complex itinerary. Our Borton Norwegian representative, Ana, handled all our requests and questions with patience and professionalism. She made reservations in the larger cities and small villages equally well. The hotels chosen for us were appropriate and top notch in virtually all cases. The tour of the Norwegian Fjords was excellent. I would certainly recommend Borton to others who want help planning and executing a Scandinavian trip
Sue Murphy
Sep 20, 2018
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This was my second time booking with Borton - a 3 week South America trip organized by EJ who took our ideas and customized an itinerary just for us. This was a dream bucket list trip. There were a few minor issues, but EJ was available and provided support. Highly recommend Borton and will book with them in the future.
Ellen Korpi
Aug 23, 2018
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I have booked group trips with many tour operators and my experience with Borton was the best of any. They were fully responsive and transparent, even when we emailed a clarification question on a weekend day in the middle of the trip. The trip itself was excellent on all counts and more (smaller group, high caliber guide...) than we expected for the price we paid.
Joanne Mueller
Aug 09, 2018
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Denise Tjarks
Jun 30, 2018
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Samantha Ritchie
May 10, 2018
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Gary N.
Dec 08, 2011
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Went gorilla trekking in Rwanda. Beware of using Borton Overseas!
They left me stranded in Kigali, their guide was a no show, and to top it off their charter plane left Zanzibar without me even though I was on the manifest!
Borton delegates to vendors who delegate to yet other vendors who delegate... So each deflects and points the finger to someone else when problems arise leaving you the client screwed and out of pocket!
They left me stranded in Kigali, their guide was a no show, and to top it off their charter plane left Zanzibar without me even though I was on the manifest!
Borton delegates to vendors who delegate to yet other vendors who delegate... So each deflects and points the finger to someone else when problems arise leaving you the client screwed and out of pocket!
