every trip on one page, headcount first and dollars second
Vacation Packages by Group Size: Sixteen Trips, Four Sizes
Vacation packages by group size: that one question decides the order of everything here. Four sizes hold sixteen trips, and each row shows its headcount before it shows its figure.
Sixteen trips, from $1,120 to $6,380 per person.
Nothing here counts you and nothing here follows you off the page. One word can be written down, and only the word yes, so this strip stops coming back. What that means in full.
Four numbers do the work on this page: nobody, twelve, forty, several hundred. Sixteen trips fall across those four, and that fall is the entire design of the list. Nothing else runs underneath it.
Pick your number along the top, then read straight down beneath it. Torn between two? Say so on the form. What comes back prices the same week at both counts, one under the other, and two figures side by side settle that question faster than any amount of thinking about it will.
Before you read a price
- Its source
- An actual booking, the lowest one this office has put through on that trip inside the past twelve months. No rate card is involved
- Who it covers
- One person in a room shared with one other person, except where the trip page states some other arrangement
- What pushes it up
- Fewer people than the size the trip sits under, a better grade of room, a week everybody wants, and deciding late
- What sits outside it
- Getting to the country. Air is quoted on its own once the dates are firm, because a fare written down today is invention by next month
- What no figure buys
- Weather, the mood of a place, or a short line at the door
Every trip, four sizes across
Just youJordan, nine nights with your own driver and guideprivate guided, one vehicleDesert, canyon country and the Dead Sea shore, on a route you can rearrange at breakfast.from $4,180per person, 9 nights
Just youKerala, eight nights of backwater and hill estateprivate guided, one vehicle and one boatTwo nights on your own boat, then tea country, with nobody else's timetable in it.from $3,240per person, 8 nights
Just youNamibia, twelve nights driving yourselfself drive, fitted vehicleThe longest trip here and the emptiest. You drive, and the only company is the one you brought.from $5,460per person, 12 nights
Just youThe Sacred Valley, nine nights with a private guideprivate guided, one vehicleAltitude taken slowly on purpose, with the hard day placed where you can move it.from $3,890per person, 9 nights
About twelveLofoten, seven nights with about eleven otherssmall group, one minibusShort northern days, hard granite and a group small enough to fit one boat.from $3,620per person, 7 nights
About twelveThe Outer Hebrides, eight nights in a small groupsmall group, one minibus and two ferriesIsland hopping by scheduled ferry, which is why the group is capped where it is.from $3,150per person, 8 nights
About twelveHa Giang, ten nights on the northern loopsmall group, one minibusThe lowest priced small group trip here, and the one with the most hours in a vehicle.from $2,480per person, 10 nights
About twelveAlbania, nine nights from the coast into the mountainssmall group, one minibusTwo hard driving days buy three villages a coach physically cannot reach.from $2,190per person, 9 nights
About fortyThe Danube, eight nights on a forty cabin shipsmall ship, about forty cabinsA ship small enough for one dining room and one sitting, which decides the whole day.from $2,940per person, 8 nights
About fortySicily, ten nights by coachescorted coach tourA full coach, a fixed clock and three bases, which is what keeps the figure where it is.from $2,760per person, 10 nights
About fortyThe Inside Passage, eight nights on a small shipsmall expedition ship, about forty berthsThe most expensive trip in the catalog, and the page explains exactly where the money goes.from $6,380per person, 8 nights
About fortyAndalusia, nine nights by coachescorted coach tourThree cities and two hill towns, with the walking honestly described rather than softened.from $2,340per person, 9 nights
Several hundredThe eastern Caribbean, seven nights afloatlarge ship, several hundred aboardThe lowest figure on this site. The page says plainly what the number costs you.from $1,120per person, 7 nights
Several hundredThe western Mediterranean, ten nights afloatlarge ship, several hundred aboardFour countries in ten nights, each of them seen between nine and five.from $1,690per person, 10 nights
Several hundredRiviera Maya, seven nights at one large resortlarge resort, all inclusiveOne place, one bill, and a beach shared with a number the page prints.from $1,380per person, 7 nights
Several hundredThe Canary Islands, ten nights at one large resortlarge resort, all inclusiveThe winter trip most people are actually looking for, described without flattery.from $1,460per person, 10 nights
The map behind the list
Ten nights, four countries, and each of them seen between nine and five