one animal, one alignment, one window
Wildlife and Aurora Vacation Packages: It Either Happens or It Does Not
Wildlife and aurora vacation packages, where the entire reason for going can fail and no part of the money comes back. Four trips, and all four say so first.
Nobody should book one of these without reading the fourth row on its page, and the fourth row on all four says the same thing: when conditions win, nothing comes back.
That is not an operator behaving badly. The skipper turned up, the vehicle was fuelled, the permit was paid for and the crew were on the payroll. Everything that was promised was delivered except the sky, and nobody sells the sky.
What can be done is tell you the odds honestly before you decide, and place you in the week with the best historical record rather than the week that suits a brochure. That is the whole of what this company is for on these four pages.
Four of them, from $5,240 per person
- 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
Printed on every trip page, unasked for and ask
- The historical odds for the exact window, before any price
- That nothing is refunded when conditions win, said in the fourth row
- Placement in the best week on record rather than the convenient one
The other three shapes
- 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.