Nine places, and the tier each falls into

Where We Book

Nine regions come up often enough here to have accumulated something worth telling you. Each is listed with the tier it normally lands in and the month that settles the question. A shorter list than an agency could publish, and the one we actually work.

The nine

Where	Usually this many companies	The month that decides it
The Caribbean	One, or two once the flight is separate	December to April is settled. Late in the hurricane season is inexpensive for a reason we will state plainly
Mexico	Two	The same weather as its neighbor, and its summer suits families: warm water and long evenings
Alaska	One, or two with the night before the sailing	An eighteen week season and no shoulder. The ships simply stop
Ireland and Scotland	One if escorted, three if you drive	Late spring through early autumn, for the daylight. Sunday timetables are sparse in every season
Iceland	Two	Late May to early September for long days, or October to March for short ones and a chance of aurora
Portugal and Spain	Two, three with a second city	March to June, September to November. The best value in western Europe
Italy	Three	Late spring and early autumn. A walking itinerary in July or August is a punishment rather than a holiday
Japan	Three	Spring and autumn, and both are busy for good reason. The rail contract must be arranged before you leave
East Africa and South America	Four or more, always	Dry seasons, which differ by region and which decide the whole itinerary rather than merely improving it

Why the list is this short

One desk can only accumulate real knowledge of so many places, and nine is the honest count. Advertising forty would carry exactly as much information as advertising none.

Ask about a tenth and you will be told plainly that no research exists yet, and it gets done with you watching rather than dressed up as something already on file. If somebody else specialises in it and would serve you better, you will be told that.

A single track country lane running between dry stone walls under a wide grey sky, with no vehicles, no people and no signposts — Roughly half of what this office is asked about is a road somebody saw once and cannot name.

What starting from Charleston changes

Non stop flights: almost none of these routes has one, so a connection is part of every trip and which one exists on your dates moves the figure more than the hotel does
The company count: a connecting itinerary is still one airline contract, so it does not move the tier. What moves the tier is a SECOND airline, which is why regional hops matter and connections do not
Arrival days: planned as travel days. Anybody scheduling monuments for the end of an eighteen hour day has not personally tried it
Airfare: quoted beside every trip and never inside it, because it moves the day you ask

Your name it has to match the passport later, so give the full one

Where the figure goes used for that and nothing else

Telephone, if you prefer rung only if writing cannot settle it

How much joining up you want us to do this is the question that changes the shortlist

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