twenty-six dated departures, priced per person, indexed by month
Reserve a vacation package with a travel agent in Kansas City by naming the month you can leave
Twenty-six dated departures are on the board at $1,615 to $4,855 per person, each one with its date already fixed by the company that runs it. Name the month you can get away and the board shows what leaves inside it. That company bills you directly and answers for the trip; this office is paid its commission by the operator once you are home again. It publishes nothing, carries nobody and routes no calls: it is a booking office that places your reservation with the company running the trip.
See all twenty-six departures, from $1,615 per personSend a booking request
Twenty-six departures stand on the board today, each one with a date already fixed and a price per person between $1,615 and $4,855. To reserve a vacation package with a travel agent in Kansas City, name the month you can get away and the board narrows to the trips that run inside it. Some go once a year on a single morning. Some start on three or four days inside one week. Some run weekly through one named month. One of them runs most of the year and costs different money in June than it does in February.
Third Coast Dispatch Bookings LLC is a booking office and not a publication. It takes your request, puts the reservation with whichever company operates that departure, and sends back a written confirmation carrying your date on it. Everything it has to sell sits in the twenty-six rows below.
Sorted by date, because the date is the part that will not move
A list arranged by destination asks you to want a place first and find out afterward whether anything leaves in the week you can actually take. This board runs in the other direction. Every row begins with a window the operating company has already committed to: one date, a handful of starts inside a single week, a weekly cadence through one named month, or a season that covers most of the year. A row on the board is a trip that runs. The figure beside it belongs to that window and is not an average of twelve of them, so the number you plan around in October is the number that turns up on the operator's invoice in June. And because the date is settled before anything else gets discussed, you can carry it to an employer, a school calendar or the family member who has a say, and come back with an answer before you have reserved anything at all.
Twenty-six departures you can reserve
Every departure below can be reserved. The corner says how much slack the date has, and the words beside it say the same thing, because a drawn mark on its own is no use to anybody reading with the styles off.
one fixed datea week of datesany week in one monthmost of the year
four hours of blue light, studded tires, a quay in the dark
clove mats on the road, a tide that walks out eight hundred meters
green plantain frying at six, cloud on the ridge by two
outriggers loaded at six, wet rope, the generator off at ten
ice ridges on the north shore, warm mud, light back until seven
pebbles underfoot at dawn, flames in the rock, boats leaving on demand
cold tuff rooms, apricot flower in the hollows, dawn ridges
wet bamboo, cold highland nights, indri calling before eight
fifty eight degree water under ninety degree air, gravel bars, sycamores
thrift in flower to the cliff edge, six walking days
wet stone paths, vines overhead, river water at 64 degrees
loose scree before dawn, cloud filling the basin by ten
cold flat granite, birch poles, and no darkness after midnight
cold spring water under warm bay water, twenty five hairpins
flagstone streets, stone dykes, and light still up at eleven
apricots drying on flat roofs, ice on the tent by dawn
wooden crates of apricots on a trestle table, stone walls above
cut hay on wooden racks, cold river water, towers at dusk
beech shade, dry grass, water running forty feet under the path
night frost on the pail, rowan red, birch going over
sulphur steam off grey pumice, red ground cover at ankle height
gold blocks with straight edges on the far valley wall
bergamot in the groves, chestnut smoke above, the sea still warm
wind off the southern ocean, dolerite columns, a thousand feet down
The same place can appear twice in one year at two prices, and that is deliberate. A week there while the season is at its height and a week there once the season has loosened are different goods with different costs behind them, and both belong on the board. Reading across a single month tells you what your money buys in that month, which is a different question from what a place costs on average across a year.
Every figure is a per person price for the departure beside it, and it covers what the operating company charges for the ground: the nights, the moves between them, the guiding, and whatever meals that operator states in writing. Your own travel to the start point sits outside it. Two people sharing a room pay the figure twice; one person alone pays whatever supplement the operator sets, and the office names that number before you decide anything. The price shown is the operator's own price, and this office adds nothing to it.
If you already know when you can leave, start from the year laid out month by month. If you would rather read all twenty-six rows in one sitting, go to all twenty-six departures at once.
Senja in the winter lightone departure in January, from $4,300 per person
Orkney and its stone circlesweekly through June, from $3,596 per person
The tower villages of Svanetia week of starts in August, from $2,744 per personDaisetsuzan and two onsen townsweekly through September, from $4,855 per personThe Lycian shore, slowlyMarch to November, from $2,845 per person
Four nights on an Ozark riverApril to November, from $1,615 per personWho bills you, and who answers for the trip
Every departure here is run by a company that holds its own licences and puts its own people, rooms and vehicles behind the week. That company bills you directly, on its own paper and on its own schedule, and that company is the one answerable for what happens once you are there. Third Coast Dispatch Bookings LLC takes no money from you at any point in this: no deposit, no service charge, no fee for placing the reservation, and no card details held here or anywhere else. The office is paid a commission by the operating company, and it is paid after you are home again.
Your own travel to the start point is yours to arrange. This office does not arrange carriage by air or by sea, holds no contract with any carrier, and nothing of that kind is offered here. Where a departure crosses water, the passage sits inside the operating company's own licence and is that company's to run.
The flight is the one line the board does not carry
Every figure on this board is per person for the ground, counted from the moment you land. Getting to the country is left out of all of them and is not priced by this office. The box below hands two airports and two dates to the company that does price it, says how far the flight actually is, and points at whichever month of the board your date falls in.
Pressing that carries the question off this board altogether. It arrives at a booking company, a separate firm met over a subdomain this site lends it. Whatever it quotes is its own and current at that second; whatever it reserves is reserved on its side of the line; and a card, where one is called for, changes hands over there, nothing on this board being built to accept those digits. The ticket answers to its conditions and to nothing written here. Should a purchase follow, a share of a margin it had already fixed comes back to this office from its own side, and your total stays exactly where it was. What the lookup adds, and what it merely guesses.
From a request to a reservation
A request is not a reservation, and nothing is held in your name until the operating company confirms the date is open. You send the month and the row you want through the page on requesting a figure. The office checks that departure against the operator and comes back with the price for it, what the operator includes, what it leaves to you, and the terms under which the reservation can be given up. Only when you say yes in writing does the office place it. The whole sequence, one step at a time, is set out at the working method here.
You will not find a schedule of counter times anywhere on this site, and that is deliberate. Printing one would be undertaking that a particular person is in a particular chair at a particular hour, which is not something a one-room agency can honour every week of the year. The undertaking given instead is about turnaround. Whatever arrives through the form is opened in the order it landed, an answer goes back inside one working day, and on the occasions when an answer needs longer than that you are told so, and told what it is waiting on, before the day is out.
People arrive at this office in three states of mind: a date and no idea, a place and no date, or a figure and one week off work. The board answers the first two on sight. The third takes a conversation, because $1,615 and $4,855 are a long way apart and the month you choose moves the number as much as the place does.
What happens if your plans come apart is written down before you commit rather than after. Read how a cancellation actually works first, since those terms come from the operating company and differ from one row to the next. The questions that come up at this stage are answered at answers to the usual questions.
Where the office sits
Third Coast Dispatch Bookings LLC is filed with the Missouri Secretary of State and works from one address in Lee's Summit, Missouri, inside the Kansas City metro. The telephone takes incoming calls only. The office does not call out and does not send text messages, so anything that reaches you from here arrives because you asked for it first, and the number is answered by the person who will handle the request rather than by a switchboard.
A written request sent at any hour is answered within one business day, and it is answered by name.
Where a booking is placed from
Third Coast Dispatch Bookings LLC, known to callers as Third Coast Dispatch, works from 600 SW Jefferson St, Suite 302, Lee's Summit, MO 64063, in the Kansas City metro. Written notes reach bookings@thirdcoastdispatch.com and the office answers on +1 (816) 525-2846.
Not one thing in this trade belongs here, and this office belongs to nobody in it: no aircraft, no rooms, no vessel, no vehicle, and no ownership, agency or endorsement running in either direction between here and a tour operator or an online booking site. No card number is kept, no money is ever owed to it, and no ticket anywhere carries its name. Airfare and sea passage are not sold from here and no agreement is held with any airline or shipping line; where a departure crosses water it is the operating company that holds that passage under its own licence and invoices you.
Name a month, take the row that fits it, and send it across. If the operating company confirms the date, the reservation goes in under your name and the written confirmation follows.
Put a departure in front of the office
Open 24/7, this form will take a booking request whenever you write it. Nowhere on it is a card number requested and nothing is charged, because no money is ever owed to this office. Whatever reaches the form is opened in the order it landed, and an answer goes back inside one working day.
Nowhere on this page is a card number requested, and none is kept by this office anywhere. Writing costs you nothing and ties you to nothing. Asking is not the same as holding: your date belongs to whoever asks next until the operating company has confirmed it on paper and you have read what it requires of you.