nineteen trips, four levels of exposure
Vacation Packages and Cruises, Filed by Weather Risk
Vacation packages and cruises from $1,690 per person. Nineteen of them, and each states what conditions can cancel before it states anything else.
The four levels
- Rain costs an afternoonTowns, food and coast that work wet. A bad week costs an afternoon, not the trip.5 trips, from $1,690 per person
- One set piece exposedOne cable car, one boat, one ridge. Lose it and the week still stands.5 trips, from $2,190 per person
- Half the itinerary exposedIce, swell, cloud or water level decide half the itinerary. Both outcomes are printed.5 trips, from $4,620 per person
- The whole reason for goingOne animal, one alignment, one window. It happens or it does not, and nothing is refunded.4 trips, from $5,240 per person
The stroke on each leans further as the sky takes more: upright when rain costs an afternoon, nearly flat when it can take the whole reason for going. An angle, not a color.
Rain changes a day, not the trip
Towns, food, museums, coastlines that work wet. You will get rained on and it will cost you an afternoon at most. These are the trips to book when you cannot afford a disappointment.
Malta vacation packageself-drive island week
Cyprus vacation packagetwo base island week, mountains and coast
Charleston and Savannah vacation packagetwo-city road trip on the southern coast, walked rather than driven
Vienna and Budapest vacation packagetwo capitals by rail, mostly indoors
Mexico City and Oaxaca vacation packagetwo city food and museum trip at altitude
One or two set pieces need conditions
A cable car, a boat to an island, a ridge that wants a clear morning. Lose it and the week is still a week. Every page here says which single thing is exposed and what you do on the day it closes.
the Tatras vacation packageeight nights in one valley, three guided mountain days, one high ridge morning
Wales vacation packagea two-base driving week with two weather-dependent days
the Ligurian coast vacation packagea seven night walking week between coastal villages, with rail as the fallback
the Dolomites vacation packageeight-night mountain walking week with two lift-dependent days
the Faroe Islands vacation packageseven nights, two bases, one boat that may not run
The main activity needs conditions
Half the itinerary hangs on ice, swell, cloud or water level. A good run is remarkable and a bad run costs you half of what you came for. These pages print both.
the Yukon vacation packageeight nights in the subarctic north, aurora nights plus a dog team day, road-based
Zambia vacation packageriver and valley week with two falls mornings
Raja Ampat vacation packageten nights of boat-based diving across a remote island archipelago
Svalbard vacation packageeight nights in one Arctic town with five small-boat days off it
Greenland vacation packagecoastal trip between two settlements, four legs by small aircraft and open boat
The whole reason for going can be canceled
One animal, one alignment, one narrow window. It either happens or it does not, and no amount of money makes it happen. Four trips here are in this category and all four say so in their first paragraph.
the Baja lagoons vacation packagesmall-boat whale watching from a lagoon camp
a total eclipse vacation packagean eight night chase for four minutes of shadow
Churchill vacation packageone-animal wildlife watching in a fly-in arctic town
the Great Bear Rainforest vacation packageremote-coast wildlife viewing week from a single base
Reading the numbers below
- Where it comes from
- The lowest figure this desk has actually booked that trip at inside the past year
- Its basis
- Two people sharing one room, unless the trip page says otherwise
- What raises it
- A busier month, a better room, a decision made late, and on the expedition trips the number of berths still unsold
- What is not in it
- Reaching the country, priced on its own once the dates settle
- What it never buys
- Weather. No figure on this site includes a promise about conditions, and none ever will