Reserve a vacation package in St Louis from twenty-five trips, priced per person

Every way to reserve a vacation package in St Louis starts with somebody naming a place. Most catalogues then start with what a company wants to sell; this one starts with the twenty-five things people ask for most often and this desk declines.

Most catalogues start with what a company wants to sell. This one starts with the twenty-five things people ask Willow Mile Press for most often and we decline to arrange, and each of those twenty-five wishes leads to one trip we will place instead. You can reserve a vacation package here the same way you would anywhere else, by telling us dates and who is coming, but you get to the trip through a request we turned down, which is an odd front door and worth explaining before you use it.

The reason we work this way is that the refusals were happening anyway. Somebody would call the office in St Louis asking for a specific island in a specific month, we would say the honest thing about crowds or heat or the price of a room that week, and then the useful part of the conversation would begin. We decided to put that second half on the page instead of keeping it in the phone call. Nothing here is a judgement about the person asking. Santorini in July is beautiful and the people who want to go are right about why. It is also, in that particular month, a place where twelve thousand cruise passengers can come ashore in a single afternoon onto a town built for a few hundred, and that is a fact about the town, not about you.

The twenty-five trips you can reserve

Every trip below is open to reserve today. The square counts how close it sits to the request it answers: four sides is the same wish at a different address, one side is a different kind of trip altogether.

the same wish, a different addressa different week, or the country next dooronly the reason for going survivesa different kind of trip altogether

What holds across all twenty-five

Every trip in this catalogue was picked because we can place it with an operator we have dealt with before, at a price we can put in writing, in a season when the place is genuinely at its best rather than merely open. That last condition removes more candidates than the other two combined. A great many destinations will sell you a room in their worst eight weeks, and a booking office that only checks availability will happily hand it to you.

The rest is consistency of handling. The operating company runs the trip and puts the bill in front of you itself, under its own terms, which you will see in full before anything is confirmed. Willow Mile Press arranges it and is paid a commission by that company after you come home, which is why there is no card field anywhere on this site and no checkout to reach. We do not advise on entry paperwork, insurance or anything medical, and we say so on the the frequently asked page rather than letting you find out at the wrong moment. We hold no opinions for sale, grade nothing, and award no marks to any operator or hotel. The catalogue is short because it is limited to things we can stand behind, and it will stay in this range rather than growing to cover everything anyone might want.

Reserve a vacation package without paying us anything

A reservation here starts as a request, not a transaction. You send dates, the number travelling and any fixed points you cannot move, and somebody reads it. Requests are read in the order they arrive and answered within one business day. A figure costed against the days you actually named takes two to four working days, because we go back to the operator rather than quoting from a rate sheet that may be six weeks stale. If the answer is that your dates do not work, you will get that in writing too, with the reason. The order of everything that happens after you send the form is set out on the the working method, and if you would rather see the wishes first, the whole list of twenty-five sits at every request paired with its trip.

This office keeps no counter hours and publishes none, because a printed opening time would be a promise about a person rather than about the work. What is promised instead is a deadline: every request that reaches the form is read in the order it arrived and answered within one business day, and if the answer needs longer than that you will get a note saying so and what it is waiting on.