Are you looking for a fully guided trip where they come help you set the snare, or are you looking to use an outfit's bait sites and try it on your own?
Have you looked at the snare options yet? Aldrich vs Crit-R-Done? Blind sets vs baited tubes or cubbies?
Overall experience for me is that it is very fun. It took me a season for the first one, but has gotten easier every year since. I use the Aldrich type and set the trail into the bait. You can get away with a lot of blocking and guiding. If you are planning to blind set I could send you some pictures and tips.
Outfitter recommendation depends on if you are looking to DIY, or to target the biggest Maine Black Bears with step by step instruction, or somewhere in the middle and visit a nice lodge with good food and vacation trap.
Realistically, I am most likely looking at something in the middle, I do not need to be spoon fed, but do need some direction. I would be looking for some type of lodging, hopefully within distance of a good fishing.
I have looked at the snare options and it somewhat depends on if the outfitter provides one or not. If not, I will not be buying a $370 trap that I will most likely just use once.
And I do want a chance at a big bear, who doesn’t. 😀
And let’s be honest, everything is price dependent, I like value, but not cheap.
I would definitely appreciate any advice you have and please post or IM your pictures.