Seventeen trips sit in this catalog, and they are filed by one thing only: how far ahead each one has to be started. That is the whole organizing idea here. You can book a vacation package with a travel agent in Greensboro eleven days from now or eleven months from now, but the two requests buy very different things, and pretending otherwise wastes your time. Notice decides what is still open, what the seat and the room actually cost when they are counted, and whether the trip you have in mind is possible in this calendar year at all.
One line before anything else, because the name misleads people who arrive by search: Birchway Point Bookings LLC is a booking office. Not an apartment community, not a property manager, not a leasing agent. We are an independent agency at 324 West Wendover Avenue, Greensboro, NC 27408, and what we do is place reservations with operating companies on behalf of the people who write to us.
The five things worth knowing before you write
- PaymentNothing is collected here. The operating company bills you straight, on its own terms, and settles a commission with this desk once the trip is behind you.
- Card detailsWe do not hold them, store them, or ask for them. Any page on this site that requested a card number would be a page we did not build.
- CheckoutThere is none. No basket, no seat map, no confirmation screen. A request goes to a person, and a person answers it.
- Reply speedA message sent through the form is taken up the same working day. the costing the costing takes two to four working days on top on top, because the operating company has to confirm it first.
- Price shapeEvery figure on this site is a from-price per person, sharing a twin room, before the airfare is priced against your dates.
Where the line falls between us and the operating company
This office, in Greensboro
- Opens what arrives before that working day is out, and replies as a person.
- Establishes in writing when each part of a trip opens its book, and what the cap is.
- Says what is realistically left at your date, including when the answer is nothing.
- Puts the question to the operating company and repeats the answer word for word.
- Sets out that company's own withdrawal deadlines next to the number, whole.
- Holds the file, so the same story is never told to two different people.
The company that actually runs it
- Owns or contracts every bed, boat, permit and guide in this catalog.
- Supplies the accommodation inside the package. This office lets nothing, manages nothing and rents no property to anybody.
- Fixes the number, and fixes every date past which withdrawing costs you.
- Collects the money, keeps it, and decides what coming back looks like.
- Opens its book on its own day and closes it when the cap is reached.
- Settles a commission with this desk once the trip is behind you, never sooner.
One trip from each tier, and the other thirteen
Six of the seventeen are below, taken so that every tier is represented rather than cherry picked. The whole catalog, grouped by how much notice each trip needs, is on the vacation packages page.
A few weeks outBornholm6 nights, from $1,890 per person
Three to five monthsGotland6 nights, from $2,380 per person
Eight to twelve monthsShetland7 nights, from $3,180 per person
Eighteen months or moreMont Blanc huts9 nights, from $4,180 per person
A few weeks outExtremadura7 nights, from $1,980 per person
A few weeks outAbruzzo6 nights, from $2,140 per person
Fare lookup for a reservation already placed
The button hands the question to a booking company. That company is not this desk: it runs on a host answering under a name this domain lends it, it shows its own live figures, it holds the seat, and it takes the card on its own pages, there being no field on this site built to receive one. What is printed on the ticket comes from its conditions and not from anything written here. Where a booking follows, this office receives a portion of a margin they had already set, and nothing is added to your side to fund it: the figure was fixed before anybody could know which page you came in from. What the box sends, and what it leaves alone.
Send the desk a request
Write with as much or as little as you have. A destination and a rough month is enough to start; if you only know the tier you are aiming at, say the tier and we will work backward from there. The form is open at any hour, requests arrive through it around the clock, and the queue is worked in order on the next working day.
Three details make the first reply useful instead of a list of questions. Say how many people are going and roughly what ages, because the tier a trip sits in can shift when a party is larger than four. Say which month or which pair of months you are aiming at, since the same itinerary in the shoulder weeks and the peak weeks is often a difference of six or seven hundred dollars per person. And say whether your dates are firm or movable, because a movable week is the single most useful thing you can bring to a most-of-a-year or two-winters trip; it is frequently what makes the difference between a wait and a reservation.
You will get back a written figure that separates what is included from what is not, along with the deposit the operating company wants and the date it wants it by. That figure is quoted against your dates and your party, not lifted from the catalog page. If the trip cannot be arranged on the notice you have, we will say so plainly and tell you what the earliest workable departure looks like instead of stretching to fit. Refusing a request is part of the job here, and the office would rather do it in week one than in week six.
If you prefer to talk it through, you can speak to a travel agent at (336) 680-4173 during the working day, and it helps to have the form already sent so there is something on the screen when the call connects. Written questions about a reservation already in place go to overland@birchwaypoint.com. Corrections to a name, a date of birth or a spelling go to casework@birchwaypoint.com, and those need to reach us early, since operating companies charge to change a name once a ticket is issued.
Terms, deposit schedules and the withdrawal windows for each tier are set out at the cost of pulling out. The step-by-step of what happens between a request and a confirmed reservation is at the order the work happens in, and the common questions are answered at what people ask before they commit. Birchway Point Bookings LLC is filed with the North Carolina Secretary of State. We arrange travel; we do not run flights, ships, coaches, hotels or tours, and every trip in the catalog belongs to a company that does.