One figure, taken apart

Prices

Every price here reads from $N per person, based on two sharing, land only, with the share of nights it buys beside it. This page takes one of them apart line by line and names the counter where each excluded thing is actually paid for.

The four parts of every figure on this site

from: the lowest this office has recently arranged that trip for, in the season its own page names. It opens a conversation about your dates. It does not describe them
$N: what the operating companies charge for the things that trip's page lists as bought. Nothing from this office is inside it
per person: one head. Not a couple and not a room
based on two sharing: a room is priced as a room. Put one person in it and the figure per head rises, on some trips by half again

And a fifth thing, which is this site's own: the share of the nights the figure buys. From $490 that buys two nights of fourteen and from $1,090 that buys seven of seven are not comparable, and the line beside each price is where you see it.

The build-up of one trip

Andalusia, ten nights, nights bought.

Line	What it buys	Fixed when?	Running
Three hotels, ten nights	the rooms and the city taxes	at deposit	940
Breakfast at all three	included in those rates rather than added	at deposit	1,040
Airport transfer, arrival only	one car, one direction	yes	1,105
The written itinerary	addresses in Spanish, station walks, references	no charge	1,105
This office's fee	there is none, on any trip	none	1,105
Rounding to the published figure			from $1,180
The flight	quoted separately, and it moves the day you ask	never, until ticketed	not in the figure

The gap between 1,105 and the published figure is the seasonal range: the published from is the lowest we have arranged, and most weeks sit above it. We would rather show that gap than hide it.

Not on this bill, and the counter where each is paid

Travel insurance: the insurer, whose certificate is the document that matters
Passport and any entry fee: the issuing authority. This office neither sells nor advises on either
Meals not listed on the trip page: the restaurant
Gratuities, where they are customary: the ship's account, daily, and effectively compulsory
Excursions: the operator's desk on the ground, usually cheaper there than here
Anything you spend once you are there: your own statement

Who takes your payment, and why no number is printed

Whoever runs your trip takes it. This office adds no booking fee of its own to their charge, and it never receives the money at all: no page here carries a card field, there is no account to open and no balance to hold.

The four states that keep a register of travel sellers are California, Florida, Hawaii and Washington State, and their registers exist because some agencies hold client money. This one does not hold any, is on none of those lists, and therefore has no number to print. Printing one anyway is the offence; having none is not.

What moves, and what does not

Airfare: moves the day you ask, not the day you fly. The most volatile thing in travel and neither of us controls it
Rooms: move with the season and with how full a property is at the moment we ask
Transfers: barely move. Distance and shared-or-private, and it is usually the smallest line
Government and port charges: do not move. Nobody discounts a government
The band: moves everything. The same money buys a different share of the trip in each of the four

The two dates

Deposit date: set by the operating company. Missing it releases the booking and the price is re-quoted at whatever is available that day
Balance date: set by the operating company. Missing it is read as your cancellation, and it is the most expensive mistake available on this page. It goes in your document in bold

If you find it cheaper

Send us the page. We will tell you whether it is the same thing. It usually is not, because the difference is normally the transfers, the room category or the insurance. If it is the same thing, book it there.

Your name goes on the booking; it has to match the passport later

Where the price goes nothing else is ever sent to it

Telephone, optional used only if writing cannot settle it

How much you want bought in advance this is the one question that changes everything else

No card nowhere on this site is there a field for one
No charge the price, the comparison, and a second price after you change your mind
No obligation including after the price arrives

The boxes above are checked in the browser before anything moves, and that check is off here, so the button is too. Put these lines in a mail to office@mydomainetravel.com and it lands in the same tray: your name, where to reply, roughly when, who is traveling with ages under 18, and a figure not to pass. Or telephone +1 (202) 544-0193 while the office is open, Mon to Thu 9:30 am to 6 pm, Fri 9:30 am to 4 pm Eastern.

Where each box above ends up, and how long it is kept, has a card of its own on the privacy page. The terms say what is binding at each moment, which before a booking is nothing.