twelve short answers
Vacation Package Answers
Twelve vacation package answers, each one sentence long wherever a sentence will do. Three of them cost us the booking.
Twelve of them
What do you add to the price?
Nothing, at any stage, including the versions that end with you staying home.
Then who pays you?
The operator does, out of a margin it was making anyway, once you are back.
Who invoices me?
Whoever carries you, houses you or guides you, in their own name, which is the name your bank will show.
Why is everything sorted by how planned the day is?
Because it moves the price further than the country does, and because it is the thing people get wrong about themselves.
How do I know how many hours are committed?
It is printed on every trip page as a number of hours, along with the earliest start and the longest free stretch. Nobody else in this trade prints it.
Can I run one of these at a different pace?
Several of them, and which ones is said out loud in the opening conversation, well before anybody's money moves. On four of the seventeen the pace belongs to a permit, a ship or the law of the country and cannot be changed by anyone.
Are these the lowest prices anywhere?
That claim is never made here and nobody goes looking. What each figure marks is the bottom of a range this office genuinely placed.
I found it cheaper. Will you match it?
No. If it is the same trip on the same dates, take it.
Can a price be held for me?
That is entirely the gift of whoever quoted it, for precisely as long as they feel like granting.
Do you arrange cover for the trip?
No. It is not sold here, not arranged here, and no provider will be recommended to you.
What about passports, visas and entry rules?
Also no. They follow your nationality and your route, they change, and nothing here advises on them.
Where are the reviews?
There are none that are real. Manufacturing some is the single thing this company declines to do in exchange for a booking, so the space stays blank until an honest one turns up.
What if the operator cancels?
You are owed whatever their own terms say, and you had those terms in front of you before agreeing to anything. Pursuing it happens from this end; writing the check does not.