Fourteen trips, four tiers

Every Trip

Fourteen trips, sorted by how many separate companies each one depends on. Prices are per person, two sharing, land only, and the company count sits beside every figure so two equal prices can be told apart.

The four tiers

One company

one company

A single contract. If you can book it yourself in one sitting, you probably should.

4 trips

Two companies

two companies

Two contracts that have to line up. The join is where trips break.

4 trips

Three companies

three companies

Three contracts, three cancellation rules, one itinerary holding them together.

4 trips

Four or more companies

+four companies

Four or more. This is the work an agency exists for, and the tier we earn on.

2 trips

Why this is the useful sort

Every other agency sorts by where you are going or what kind of holiday it is. Neither tells you anything you did not already know when you sat down.

The company count tells you four things at once, and none of them is obvious from a photograph:

How it cancels. One company means one answer. Five means five, on the same afternoon, and somebody has to add them up.
Where it breaks. Never in the middle of a contract. Always at the join between two.
What it costs to change. Changing one contract in a chain of five usually moves two others.
Whether you need us. On tier one, often not, and we will say so.

The whole sheet

Every trip, and how many separate companies have to agree before it happens
The trip	Companies	Length	Per person
Ireland Escorted, Eight NightsOne tour operator holds the coach, the hotels, the guide and the entries.	one company	8 nights	from $2,180
Alaska Cruise, Seven NightsOne line sells the cabin, the meals, the entertainment and the moving between ports.	one company	7 nights	from $1,390
Caribbean Resort Week, All IncludedOne resort company sells the room, the food, the drinks and the ride from the airport.	one company	7 nights	from $1,240
Rhine River, Seven Nights AfloatOne line carries the cabin, the meals and the daily walk ashore.	one company	7 nights	from $2,420
Mexico Beach Week, Flight and ResortAn airline and a resort, bought separately so the fare can move without the room moving.	two companies	7 nights	from $1,120
Costa Rica Lodge WeekA flight and one lodge that arranges its own guides, so the count stays at two.	two companies	7 nights	from $1,560
Iceland, Six Nights, Small GroupAn airline and a ground operator, and nothing in between for you to arrange.	two companies	6 nights	from $1,980
Lisbon, Five Nights: Flight and Hotel, Two CompaniesA flight and a hotel. The smallest arrangement on this sheet that still needs joining.	two companies	5 nights	from $890
Japan, Ten Nights, Two CitiesA flight, two hotels and a rail pass that has to be bought before you leave.	three companies	10 nights	from $2,340
Kenya Safari, Nine NightsA long haul flight, a safari operator and the small aircraft between the camps.	three companies	9 nights	from $4,180
Scottish Highlands, Nine Nights by CarA flight, a set of hotels and a hire car with the insurance already inside the figure.	three companies	9 nights	from $1,720
Rome and Florence, Eight NightsA flight, two hotels and the train between them. Three contracts and one timetable.	three companies	8 nights	from $1,640
Southeast Asia, Sixteen Nights, Three CountriesLong haul air, regional air, hotels in five places and local operators. Five contracts.	+four companies	16 nights	from $2,960
Peru and the Amazon, Twelve NightsInternational air, internal air, a highland operator and a river lodge. Four contracts.	+four companies	12 nights	from $3,480

How to read a price here

from records the least this desk has lately arranged that trip for, within the season its own page names. Treat it as the start of a conversation about your dates; it is not a description of them.
per person, two sharing. Rooms carry a room's price. Put a single person in one and the per head number climbs.
land only. The airfare is quoted beside the trip, not inside it, because a fare folded into a package makes the word from untrue within a week.
Beside every figure is the company count. From $1,120 across two companies and from $1,240 across one are not the same purchase, and that column is where you see it.

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

Charged nothing, not for the figure nor for any of the work behind it
Committed nothing on either side, and that holds after the figure lands too
Card fields here zero, on this page and on every other one

These boxes are checked here in the browser before anything moves, and that check is switched off, so the button is too. Send the same details as an ordinary mail to enquiries@travelundercost.com and they land in the identical place. Six lines do it: who you are, the address to answer, an approximate month, everybody coming plus the age of anybody under eighteen, and a ceiling you would rather stay beneath. The telephone works too, +1 (304) 346-2140, whenever somebody is here: Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 9 am to 5:30 pm, Wed to 7 pm Eastern.

Every box above has its own entry on the privacy page, saying where it goes and for how long. The terms set out what binds whom, which before a booking is nobody.