Minimum usually met
Italy Vacation Package: Ten Nights
This departure needs eight people to run. It has reached eight on these dates in every season this office has sold it, which is a record rather than a promise, and the difference is the whole subject of this page.
| The moment | What is certain then | What can still change | What it costs you if it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| At enquiry | The date exists and the minimum is eight, in writing | Whether it reaches eight. Today it has not been declared either way | Nothing |
| At deposit | Your place is held and your deposit is taken. The departure is still conditional | Everything about whether it runs. This is the uncomfortable middle and no agency should hide it | Nothing yet, because the deposit is refundable in full if the operator cancels for numbers |
| At the operator's decision date | Roughly sixty days out the operator declares it. Yes means it is committed and your terms harden that day. No means a full refund of everything paid to them, plus your choice of a nearby date | Nothing after the declaration | The airfare, if you bought it yourself and it is not refundable. That is the real exposure in this tier, and it is why this office quotes the flight separately and tells you to wait |
| After confirmation | The route, the hotels, the group size cap | The usual: closures, weather, a substituted guide | The operator's schedule, now hardened |
The advice this page exists to give
Do not buy a non-refundable airfare before the decision date. If the departure falls short, the operator refunds its own money in full and owes you nothing for a ticket it never sold you.
This office will tell you the decision date in writing at deposit, put it in your document in bold, and quote the flight as a separate line so the choice stays yours.
from$2,460per person, two sharing, land only
Certainty: Minimum usually met. 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.