This is a travel agency. It reserves places on trips run by other companies and it does not serve food, pour drinks, rent anything that floats or take anybody out on the water. The name is not explained anywhere on this site, and nothing else here needs to be read twice.
Most agencies ask where you want to go. That question is hard to answer honestly, because the places you can name are the places you have already heard of. You can nearly always answer the other question, which is how much you have.
So this desk is arranged the other way round. Every departure on it carries one figure, and the figures are laid out as eight rungs. Pick the rung you can actually reach and you will find three or four trips standing on it that have nothing else in common: different continent, different length, different half of the year.
One figure, four unrelated answers
These four sit on the $2,410 rung. They share the figure and nothing else: different continents, different lengths, different halves of the year. The office prints them together so the figure can be seen doing its work, and it does not say which of the four is the one to take.
What a rung is, and what it is not
A rung is a price, and nothing more. The four departures on the $2,410 rung cost $2,410 a head with two of you in a room. One runs eight nights and one runs twelve. One is in the Balkans in June and one is in the Moroccan south in January.
The office does not tell you which of them to take, and it will not be drawn on the point. Money buys different things in different places, and turning that into a ranking would mean pretending this desk knows what you want out of a fortnight. It does not. It knows what things cost, when they run, and who is responsible when something goes wrong.
Read every figure as one person's share when two of you take a double room together. One > person alone pays a supplement, which the operating company sets and which is printed on the > page for that departure.
How the money actually moves
Nothing is paid to this office. When you decide on a departure, the reservation is placed with the company that runs it, and that company invoices you under its own name and its own terms. It pays this desk a commission afterwards, out of its own margin.
That arrangement is worth understanding, because it settles two things. The figure you see is the operator's figure, not one with a markup folded into it. And the contract you enter is with the operator, so its cancellation terms are the ones that bind, not ours.
Putting a figure on the half this ladder leaves out
Not one rung on this ladder has a flight inside it, and that is deliberate: the same week to the same coast can differ by more than a whole step of the ladder depending on the day you fly. The box below asks a reservations company for that missing figure straight out, and while the fields are being filled it does two sums of its own, in the only two units this catalogue uses. It multiplies the ladder by the people you have entered, and it turns the two dates into a count of nights and names the rungs that actually hold a departure of that length.
Every rung on this ladder is quoted without a flight in it, and this is where the missing half gets a number. The six entries above go to a reservations company answering to a name this domain is lent, and whatever it answers is its own: its figures shift by the minute, its seats are held in its own system, and a card is handed over on its pages, there being no box on this website built to receive one. What it later pays this office was agreed with it long before anybody typed here, comes out of its share and not off the top, so your own total is untouched by it. The six entries that leave, and the two sums worked out on this page.
Reserve a vacation package, or ask what your figure reaches
There are two ways in. If a departure has already caught your eye, name it. If it has not, name the figure instead and let the desk come back with what stands on that rung and what stands on the two either side of it.
Start from the figure you actually have
Requests are taken every hour of every day. A person reads what this collects and writes back inside one business day. Money never changes hands here, and this office holds no card details of yours at any stage.
Orchard and Oar Bookings LLC
1401 E Broward Blvd, Suite 305Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
+1 (954) 522-3140Calls run one way only: this office answers what reaches it and starts nothing of its own, by voice or by message.
reservations@orchardandoar.com
No opening times are posted. What is promised instead is the wait: a written request is answered inside one business day, and that is the undertaking the office will be held to.