Including the answers nobody enjoys giving
Awkward questions people ask before they reserve a week with a travel agency in San Diego
Real questions, real answers, with nothing softened. Read the refusals first: they are the ones that change what you decide.
Reserve one of these weeksSend the form whenever it suits: it never shuts. Someone here replies inside one working day, and no charge arises at this end.
Before anything else, in practice
No money reaches this office from you, and no card number is stored anywhere in it. Once you have said yes, the invoice comes from the company running your week, under its own name. Payment is not something this site is built to accept at all, so a page asking you to type a card number is somebody else's page.
Asked before anybody commits
How often does the poor version actually happen?
The honest answer is that we have no idea, and we are not going to make one up. Reliable odds for one particular week in one particular valley are not published by anyone, so any percentage printed here would be a claim with nothing behind it. The distance between the two versions is a different matter: that is measured by the mark on every place page, and it is something known rather than something predicted.
Do you book my flights?
No. Nothing that moves by air or by water forms part of what is sold here, and there is no contract with any carrier at all, so a seat cannot be sold to you and prices we do not set are prices we will not discuss. Arrival in the country is where each week in the catalogue starts. That is a genuine limit on the service, printed plainly instead of dressed up.
Is it possible for you to handle a visa, or say whether one applies?
No, and guessing is not on offer either. Entry permissions, passports and border rules fall right outside the work of this office, the rules shift with no warning given, and getting it wrong can cost somebody the entire week. Put the question to the consulate you would apply to, or ask a licensed adviser. Vaccination sits in the same box, as does cover for the trip, and so does anything touching law or medicine.
Do you sell cover for the week?
No, in any form, including travel insurance folded into a trip price by other people. It sits outside what this office does. Buy it from somebody licensed to sell it, and read what the policy excludes before you travel rather than after.
If the week goes badly, do I get anything back?
Nothing came to this office, so there is nothing here to return, and whether anything comes back from the company that ran the week is decided by its own written terms: none of the firms in this catalogue treats weather or wildlife as grounds for a refund. Printing both versions at one size and one figure is exactly the response to that. A poor week is not a service that went wrong; it is the second half of the thing you reserved.
Does this office publish anything?
No. What you are looking at is a name and nothing more. Nothing is printed here on a schedule, no mailing list exists, no numbered instalment of anything is issued, and no publication carrying a similar name has any link to this business. Reservations are the work, and the nine places set out above are the entire range.
Finish the sentence and a week gets reserved
Whatever the hour, what you send lands here and is read by a person, who replies inside one working day. Sending it binds you to nothing, and no sum is ever taken at this end.