what to put in a request, and what happens next
Request a trip quote 24/7 for any of the twenty-eight dated windows
Twenty-eight dated windows are open to reserve, from $3,061 per person, and this page walks through the form that starts one. Tell an agent which weeks you can travel and the answer comes back priced against those weeks. Sending it commits you to nothing.
Reserve a windowAn answer is written inside one business day by somebody at this end.
You can request a trip quote 24/7 on this page, and an agent replies within one business day. The form at the foot of the page reaches a small booking office in Orlando, Florida, where a person reads it against the twenty-eight dated windows Roving Hours Bookings LLC has open to reserve. Across the catalogue the figures run from $3,061 to $6,939 per person, and what comes back to you is priced for one window, on stated dates, with the parts of it listed.
Weeks first, and everything else second
The most useful line in any request is the one that says when you can go. Every window here is dated because the thing it is built around is dated: forty minutes of birds before they drop into the reeds, a pressing that runs day and night for six weeks, ice that comes down from the north and then goes again. Name two or three weeks you could genuinely be away and an agent can tell you in a single reply which windows fall inside them and which fall to either side. If your dates are open, write that instead. It is worth as much, and it usually widens the answer.
the whole year laid out in one strip draws the whole year in one picture, with each window as a bar across the weeks it runs. what is open in the weeks you can travel takes the same information a month at a time.
Every field changes the answer
- Which window
- Name the trip you have in mind, or describe the kind of thing you are after and let an agent name two. If either of two would suit, say both and the reply prices both.
- Weeks you can travel
- Give real weeks, or say your dates are open. Almost everything else in the answer follows from this line.
- How many people
- Figures are per person, and parts of some windows are priced by the party, so the count moves the total.
- Anyone under eighteen, and how old
- A few operating companies set a lower age limit on a window, and that is better known before a plan is built on it.
- How much of the day you want
- The hour mark, one to four. Say which you are after and an agent will keep the answer inside it.
- Where your day would start
- Your flight is your own arrangement, so the reply is written around the day you can be on the ground rather than a guess at it.
- Anything that would change the trip for you
- Stairs you would rather not climb, a walking distance that has a limit, a ground floor room. These take less work to build in at the start than to move later.
- Where to send the reply
- An address you actually read. The answer goes there in writing and nowhere else.
How much of a day a window takes
Each window carries a mark from one to four. One is a single fixed hour on each day of it. Four starts before dawn and ends after dark. The mark sits on every trip page, and it is worth naming in a request, because two windows in the same week can ask entirely different things of a day. If four is more day than you want, say so, and an agent will price something at one or two.
Inside a reply
An agent reads the request, checks your weeks against the company that operates the window, and writes back with a figure per person, what sits inside that figure and what sits outside it, the hour mark, and how many nights the window runs to. Your flight is your own arrangement in every case and forms no part of the price. Where a window crosses water, the operating company carries that passage under its own licence, and the reply names it as their leg of the trip.
The form stays open every hour of every day of the year. What it collects is a request and not a reservation, a person reads it, and an answer is written within one business day.
Nature, and what a reply can honestly say
A window is dated on what is typical for that place in that week, drawn from what the operating company has seen in past seasons. Birds, ice, light and flowering are underwritten by nobody. A reply tells you what is typical, and it tells you what the window still runs to on a morning or a night when the thing itself does not appear, so that you can weigh both before you agree to anything.
A request is a question
Sending the form starts a conversation and does nothing more than that. It holds no place, it commits you to nothing, and it commits this office to nothing beyond an answer. No payment is taken here at any stage: this office holds no card details, and the operating company bills you directly once you have agreed terms with them. how a request becomes a held window sets out the sequence from a first request to a held reservation, and the terms for ending a booking early sets out what the operating company's terms will bind you to at the point you agree. Both read better before a request than after one.
Sending the same thing another way
If you would rather write, an agent will take the same details at bookings@rovinghours.com, and a correction to something already sent goes to corrections@rovinghours.com so it reaches the same file. The same details can also be read to an agent over the telephone at +1 (407) 629-3157. This office answers requests; it rings nobody and sends no text messages, so an answer comes back in writing to the address you gave. what gets asked most often before people commit covers the questions that arrive most often ahead of a first request.
Start with the weeks, not the country
This form takes requests every hour of every day, and a person answers within one business day. Nothing here commits you. No figure is charged at this end.