Sixteen trips, eight pairs, and on any given week one or two of them carry a reduced figure from the operating company. Right now there are two trip offers currently open, and both are printed below with the dates they cover. Booking one works the way booking anything here works: you send a request, this office arranges the reservation with the company that runs the trip, and nothing is taken from you at any point. No payment is collected on this site. No card number is held. There is no checkout on any page of it, and if you look for one you will not find it, because the operating company bills you directly once the reservation exists. The office is paid a commission by that company after you travel.
An offer here is a fact about supply. An operating company has beds, seats, or a guide with an open week, and it prices that week lower to fill it. That is the whole mechanism. It is not a signal about the walking, the villages, the weather, or the company's own opinion of the itinerary, and it is emphatically not a message to you about which trip you should take.
A price cut is not an opinion about the pair
This matters more here than it would on an ordinary catalog, so it is worth saying flatly. Every trip on this site sits beside a second one. The Dolomites sit beside the Julian Alps. Connemara sits beside Donegal. When one half of a pair carries a reduced figure and the other does not, the arithmetic looks like a decision has been made for you. It has not. The office does not rank the two halves of any pair, does not have a preferred half, and will not tell you one is the right answer. A reduced figure on the Alpujarras means a Spanish operating company had a soft week in June. It carries no information whatsoever about whether the Picos de Europa would suit you better, and if you ask this office to break the tie on price grounds, the answer will be the differences again, set out side by side, with the choice handed back to you.
If the money genuinely decides it for you, that is a real reason and nobody here will argue with it. Just know that it is your reason and not ours.
What is open right now
aland
from $2,410 per person
Six nights across four islands, bicycles carried free on the yellow inter island ferries, luggage moved by road on the main island and by boat beyond it, riding days of 18 to 34 miles on near flat ground.
funen
from $2,270 per person
Six nights in four places, riding twenty to forty miles a day between them on signed routes, with bags moved by road and every crossing made on a bridge.
alpujarras
from $2,090 per person
Six walking days between five villages on the south flank of the Sierra Nevada, with bags moved by road each morning and a fixed bed each night.
picos
from $2,340 per person
Two bases, four nights in the Cares valley and three in the Sella side, walking on six days, with one cable car ascent and a rest day that most people spend low.
arran
from $2,120 per person
One rented house or room on the east coast, a hire car collected on the island, six nights, no packing up in the middle.
mull
from $2,290 per person
Ferry over from Oban, one house or inn for all six nights near the middle of the island, a hire car collected on arrival, and days planned around driving times rather than map distances.
connemara
from $2,180 per person
One house or small hotel for all seven nights, a hire car collected at the airport, and days built around walking, driving the inlets, and sitting out weather.
donegal
from $2,260 per person
One rented house or guesthouse for all seven nights, a small hire car from Dublin or Knock, and days built around walking on headlands, strands and one or two inland hills.
These are the season figures the operating companies published, printed as they were given. There is no countdown on this page, no count of remaining places, and no price with a line through it. When an operating company has nothing reduced on offer, this board says nothing rather than inventing something.
What is allowed to appear on this board
- an offer must name the operating company's dates
- dates run as printed and are not extended quietly
- the reduced figure is the whole figure
- there is no separate second number to strike through
- no place is counted and no place is announced as scarce
- this office does not know the company's remaining inventory and will not guess at it
- an offer on one half of a pair says nothing about the other half
- both halves stay on the site at their ordinary figures and neither is marked
- an expired offer comes off the board
- it is not left up with the dates quietly rolled forward
Why there is no clock on this page
You will not find a countdown here, a tally of places left, or a figure with a line through it. Part of that is legal caution and part of it is that those devices are usually lying. A countdown that resets when you reload was never counting anything. A struck figure claims that somebody, somewhere, at some point, was actually charged the higher number, and on most sites nobody ever was. This office would have to be able to prove that claim, and for a reduced week from an operating company it usually cannot, so the higher number is simply not printed. What you see is what the trip costs on those dates.
The count of remaining places is a separate problem: this office is not the operating company and does not hold its booking system. Any number printed here would be invented. So none is printed. If a departure is close to full, you will be told that when the request goes over, in a sentence written by a person, and if it has already filled you will be told that too, plainly and quickly, rather than being left to discover it.
Dates on this page are checked against the operating companies regularly. They still change, because a company can withdraw a week for its own reasons at any point, and no figure here is fixed until the reservation is confirmed in writing. That written figure takes two to four working days. A message sent to the office is opened before the working day ends.
Send a request against either of these
requests go through the form around the clock; a written figure follows in two to four working days
Requests can be sent 24/7 through the form on this page, and the form is the only thing on this site that is open around the clock. To call a travel agent in Charlotte about either of these dates, the number is (704) 362-5187. The cancellation terms that apply to a reduced week are the operating company's own and are set out at the cancellation terms; the steps a request goes through are at how a request is handled; the remaining common questions are answered at the questions people ask.