Speak to a travel agent in New Orleans, or send the dates in writing

You can speak to a travel agent in New Orleans on +1 (504) 832-6194, write to bookings@thepinegazette.com, or fill in the form at the foot of this page. All three arrive in the same place. What changes is the shape of what comes back, so the rest of this page says which route suits which question.

Pine Gazette Bookings LLC works from 2450 Severn Avenue, Suite 312, Metairie, Louisiana 70001, in the New Orleans metro. It is a booking office. It places your reservation with the company that actually operates the trip, that company then invoices you directly on its own paperwork and in its own name, and it pays this office a commission once you are back. Money never moves through here at any stage, and a card number is never asked for and never held. The company is Louisiana Secretary of State.

Which route suits which question

The telephone settles a small thing quickly and it is a poor instrument for fixing a date. Anything agreed out loud gets written down here and sent back to you inside the same day's reply, because a booking held in two memories is not a booking. If you would rather skip that step entirely, start in writing and the record exists from the beginning.

A written figure is slower than any of the three, and the reason sits outside this office. The operating company prices your dates by counting them, one at a time: nights, permit days, vehicle days, beds, crew. That normally runs two to four working days. request a trip quote 24/7 sets out what goes into a figure and how long each part of it stays true.

A deadline stands in place of an opening time

This office publishes no opening times. It publishes a deadline instead: every request is answered within one business day. That swap is deliberate, and of the two promises it is the more honest one.

An opening time is a statement about geography. It says a person is expected at an address between two numbers on a clock, and it tells you nothing whatever about your month, your party or your dates. Read from three time zones away it tells you even less. A deadline is a statement about you. Whatever you send, at whatever hour you send it, has a fixed distance between landing here and being answered, and you can hold this office to that distance without ever knowing where anybody was standing when it arrived.

The request form takes booking requests 24 hours a day, every day of the year. It is a form, not a telephone line, and a person reads what it collects and answers within one business day.

The deadline covers the reply, not the figure. The reply tells you the request was read, what is missing from it, and what happens next. The figure follows once the operator has finished counting. how a request becomes a reservation lays that sequence out in order, and the cancellation terms in full covers what changes if you step away after the reservation is in your name.

Every call in this direction starts with you

Nobody here rings you first, and nobody here sends a text message, at any hour and for any reason. There is no calling list, no campaign and no follow up. A reply comes back the way your message came in, or in writing if that is what you asked for. If a telephone rings and the caller says they are from this office about a trip you never enquired about, it is somebody else using the name.

Four details that shorten the first reply

Four things make the opening exchange short: a month, or a window of weeks if the month is soft; the number of travelers and how they intend to share rooms; the rung you think you want; and roughly where in the range your budget sits. The last of those is the one people leave out. Trips here run from $1,951 to $6,545 per person, and naming which end of that you are near saves an entire round of messages. the five rungs side by side explains the five rungs, and the whole ladder, top to bottom lists all twenty-seven trips in one order, from everything met and guided to only the hard parts. Nothing on that list is graded above anything else on it. If a question this page raised is still open, the questions this office is asked most very likely covers it.

The journey out to the starting point stays in your hands in every case. What this office holds is the ground under the trip: the beds, the guided days, the vehicle, the permit the operating company applies for, and the dates all of it sits on. It holds no flight and no sailing on any leg of anything.