A pilgrim looking out of a window

A published package is a dated sheet: named hotels, occupancy prices, measured metres. It is not a promise that we can still file a visa and confirm those hotels tonight. Visa processing and hotel confirmations take 72 hours. We stop taking new bookings 90 hours before the outbound flight date on that departure so those 72 hours are actually there. Publishing the sheet earlier or later does not move this clock.

Questions we are asked

Seventy-two hours is the work: the visa file and the hotel confirmation. Ninety hours is when we stop taking a new booking, so the 72 hours are actually available.

To the archive. The sheet is still true. You can read the occupancies; you cannot book that outbound date. Dates still accepting bookings stay on the packages page.

Yes, for a later published date or for dates we have not listed. We will not take a new booking against the closed outbound date.