Traveling by group tour is good if you don't wanna plan and think about where to go and what to do. Just blindly follow. May also come in handy when the traveling conditions isn't as ideal or safe for us to travel on our own, such as driving in snowy mountainous roads for long distance on the opposite side. Also will get free luggage bag?

Other than that, many cons if you ask me. Not much time to chill. Have to visit places that you may not be interested in. Most likely every night different hotel. Food may not be to your liking. Tour members may be problematic. May bring you to touristy places to buy stuff so they get commission. Service may not reach your expectations, we were given a brand new tour guide in training to guide about 20 of us and he has never been in that country before, can't even speak english to communicate with the local bus driver. And most of the time, more expensive than traveling on your own.

I've done local tours where you engage the tour agency for a day or two at your destination. Those are pretty good cause it'll be a full day tour and it'll only be your small group of people. One of the group tour that I traveled with, a Malaysian tour company, meet you at airport and all that. Worst travel experience ever lol. Last minute cancel meals, ask us to sendiri find dinner eat at hotel or eat maggi mee in the room. Lots of promises, none delivered. Our group even got the minimum required number of pax for private tour, but end up the tour company decided to add in a few more random people to our private group. Never traveling with them ever again. I'd say lower your expectations if wanna follow group tour, and do proper research on how good their tours are. Don't think you can do much about other tour members cause there would be all sorts of people that join these tour groups.

Lol yea this too. I literally argued with the tour company boss in the middle of our trip until my relatives had to stop me. He avoided me for the rest of the trip and kept sending messages in the WhatsApp group to defend himself.

Definitely would not recommend tour groups unless you have zero expectations and prefer to follow blindly.