Runs regardless
Andalusia Vacation Package: Nine Nights
Nothing about this trip waits on anybody else. The rooms are yours, the trains are yours, and if not one other traveler books anything this month it departs exactly as arranged.
| The moment | What is certain then | What can still change | What it costs you if it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| At enquiry | Nothing yet. No hotel is held, no seat is yours, and no money has moved | Everything: the rates, the room grades and which trains still have seats at the hour you want | Nothing at all. Walking away here costs you the time you spent reading |
| At deposit | The rooms are held in your name and the rail seats are reserved | The airfare, quoted separately, which moves the day you ask rather than the day you fly | Each hotel's own schedule. On this trip they are usually forgiving into the final fortnight |
| At the operator's decision date | There is no decision date, and that is the whole point of this tier. No operator is counting heads, because no group exists | Nothing. There is nobody to wait for | Nothing, because nothing is pending |
| After confirmation | Every night, every train, every reference number, in one document in day order | Only what you decide to change | Each element separately: the hotels are gentle, the rail tickets are not |
What this tier buys you
Certainty of a specific kind: the trip is not contingent on strangers. Everything on this page exists because you asked for it, and nothing on it can be cancelled by an operator who did not sell enough seats.
from$1,240per person, two sharing, land only
Certainty: Runs regardless. The flight is quoted beside this figure and never folded inside it, because on a conditional departure an early ticket is the one thing a shortfall does not return. What the figure contains.
What you give up
A guide, a group, and somebody else deciding what happens at nine in the morning. If you want any of those, the tiers below are where they live, and they come with a condition attached.