what to write in the form, and what comes back
Request a trip quote 24/7, and say which rung you want
Twenty-seven trips sit on one ladder here, from $1,951 to $6,545 per person, and every one of them is quoted the same way. Send the form with your dates, your party and the rung you have in mind, and a written answer comes back within one business day. A request holds nothing and commits nobody.
Send a booking requestThe Pine Gazette answers every request within one business day.
The form at the foot of this page is the whole intake, and it is the only thing you fill in to request a trip quote 24/7. Whatever hour it arrives, a person at this office in New Orleans, LA reads it and writes back within one business day. The answer says what the trip would cost per person on your dates, what that figure covers, what it leaves to you, and which company would run it.
What each line of the form changes
Every line moves one of three things: the figure, the weeks that are actually possible, or the company that ends up running the trip. Left blank, they come back to you as questions, and that costs a day.
- Dates, or a month
- Fixed dates get a firm figure. A month gets a range, because operators price by season and by the week inside it.
- How many of you
- Two people sharing a room and two people in two rooms are separate figures on the same trip.
- Ages, if anyone is under eighteen
- Some operators set a floor age on the harder rungs, and some price a child off the adult figure.
- The rung, or that you cannot pick one
- The most useful line in the form. It sorts twenty-seven trips faster than a country name does.
- Where, roughly
- A country, a coastline or one valley all work. So does naming two and letting the answer cover both.
- The city you start from
- Your flights stay yours to arrange, and the answer says where and when the operating company takes over.
- The figure you are working to
- Say it per person. It decides the rung more often than the map does.
- Rooms
- One room, two rooms, a single with no sharing, a ground floor room without stairs: it goes into the request as written.
- Anything that has to be true
- Step free ground, a kitchen that has to know about a diet, an anniversary the dates hang on.
- How to reach you
- An email address is enough. The answer arrives in writing, so the detail stays in front of you while you think.
The rung is the line that moves the answer most
The catalogue is one chain of twenty-seven trips, ordered by how much of the trip you run yourself, and it reads end to end at the whole ladder, top to bottom. The five rungs go from everything met and guided, through a base and a vehicle, down to only the hard parts held for you and the rest of the days yours. Each one is described in full at the five rungs side by side.
No rung is better than another. The figures overlap across the whole chain, because a permit, a ranger and a weekly boat are scarce in a way that a guided week is not, so a rung tells the office what kind of days you want and says nothing about what you are willing to spend. Say both.
If you cannot pick a rung, write that down; it is a real answer and it is a common one. Then say which of these you would rather wake up to abroad: somebody waiting in the lobby at eight with the day already arranged, or a key, a car and an empty diary. That one sentence narrows twenty-seven trips to about six.
What happens between the send and the reply
Requests are read in the order they arrive. The office checks your dates against what the operating company is actually running that week, since a trip listed under June may run three times that month and not on the week you asked about. If something in the request will not hold, the answer says so and gives the nearest weeks that will.
The answer itself names the company that would operate the trip, gives the figure per person on your dates, lists what that figure covers and what it leaves to you, and states that company's own terms for changing or cancelling. Your flights stay your own arrangement, and the answer marks where and when the operator takes over. See how a request becomes a reservation for the order the whole sequence runs in, and the cancellation terms in full for what moving your dates later does to a reservation.
A sent request is not a reservation
The form holds nothing. It reserves no room, no vehicle and no figure, and it commits nobody on either side. A reservation exists only once you have read the written answer, said yes to it, and the operating company has confirmed the booking in your name.
This office takes no payment of any kind and holds no card details. Invoicing runs straight from the operator to you on its own paperwork, and this office is paid a commission by that operator once the trip is behind you, which is why the figure in the answer is the operator's own and not a mark up of it. See the questions this office is asked most for the questions that come in most often about how that works.
Answers come from Pine Gazette Bookings LLC, the company known as The Pine Gazette. If the form fails for any reason, the same detail sent to bookings@thepinegazette.com reaches the same person, and a correction to something already sent goes to corrections@thepinegazette.com. The office answers its telephone and never places a call from it, and it sends no text messages.
The request form takes booking requests 24 hours a day, every day of the year. It is a form, not a telephone line, and a person reads what it collects and answers within one business day.
Write the last box in your own words when the fields do not fit what you have in mind. The same person who writes the answer reads it, and one honest paragraph about the trip you are imagining is worth more than a tidy form.
Send a booking request
This form takes booking requests 24 hours a day. A person reads it and answers within one business day. Sending it is not a reservation, it costs nothing, and this office will not telephone or text you unless you ask it to.