Reserve a long stay with a travel agent in Baton Rouge, or a single week in the same village

This is a booking office in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It sells thirteen places, and it sells every one of them at three lengths: seven nights, twenty one nights and fifty six nights. The lowest figure in the catalogue is $2,065 per person and the highest is $12,421. You can reserve a long stay with a travel agent in Baton Rouge on the same page you would use to take a week, and the two arrive priced as separate goods, because that is what they are.

Most catalogues sort by where. This one sorts by where and by how long, in a grid, because those two questions are not the same size. Seven nights is a visit. You come with a list, you work through the list, and you leave while the list is still the reason you came. Twenty one nights is a different object altogether. Somewhere in the second week the list runs out, and what fills the space behind it is the ordinary business of being somewhere: a wash to do, a market whose layout you now hold in your head, a walk you take a second time because the first one was good. Fifty six nights goes further again. You stop being a visitor. The woman in the shop you use most starts expecting you at roughly the hour you tend to appear, and you begin to hold opinions about the bread.

Thirteen places down the side, three lengths across the top

Every one of the thirty nine cells carries a figure, and every figure is per person. Under each total sits what that total works out to for one night, so both numbers stand together and the arithmetic between them is yours. The office draws no conclusion from it and prints none. What the office will say is narrower and more useful: the two products in a row are bought for different reasons, and the reason is worth settling before the price is.

Figures move with the season and with what the operating company still has open, so the number on the grid is the number the office confirms in writing before anything is held for you. Where a stay involves a scheduled crossing on water, that crossing belongs to the operating company and runs under its own license. Your flights stay your own arrangement, made wherever you please, and this office keeps clear of them.

Choosing between a week, three weeks and a season

If the place is settled and the length is the open question, see the three lengths set out side by side for the three set out at full width, with what each one usually carries and what each one leaves to you. If the length is settled and the place is open, see all thirteen places at all three lengths, where the same thirty nine figures sit in one table you can read across or down.

There is a rough rule underneath the grid, and it is about attention rather than money. A week rewards a place with one clear thing in it: a coast, a ruin, a single valley walk that takes three days and repays them. Three weeks rewards a place with a second and third layer that only opens once the first has been used up. A season rewards a place you would be content to be slightly bored in, because being slightly bored somewhere is how you find out what it is like on a Tuesday in the rain.

The flight, which is not in any of the thirty nine figures

Every price in the matrix covers the stay and starts the day you arrive. Getting to the place is left out of all thirty nine, and this office does not price it. Give the box below a pair of airports and your two dates: it passes them to the company that prices flights, and first it works out which of the three lengths those dates amount to.

Who bills you, and who answers for the stay

The office takes booking requests and places the reservation with the company that operates the stay: the family that owns the house, the small hotel, the estate that lets the cottage out by the month. That company bills you directly, on its own terms, and it is the party answerable for what it provides. A commission reaches this office once the weeks are over. You are charged nothing here at any point, and card details are neither asked for nor held on this site. The figure in the grid is what the operating company charges. The office adds nothing on top of it.

That arrangement is the reason the length question gets asked out loud rather than sold quietly. The office is paid the same way whichever cell you land in, so it has room to tell you when seven nights would do everything you want and fifty six would leave you with forty nine nights of weather.

From your request to a held reservation

You send the place, the length and roughly when. The office puts the dates to the operating company, writes back with what came of it, and holds the reservation only once you have said yes in writing. The order of it, with the point at which money first appears and who it goes to, is set out in how a request becomes a held let. Cancellation terms belong to the operating company and differ from one place to the next, so they are collected in the cancellation terms in full rather than summarized into a single promise this office is in no position to make.

Requests reach this office Bookings can be asked for through the form on this page at any hour. Every request is answered within one business day, in writing, to the address you give us. The office makes no outgoing calls and sends no text messages; if you would rather talk it through, the number is on the card below and the call is yours to place.

Entry rules are a matter between you and the authority that issues them. This office does not advise on them.

Questions that tend to come before a request are answered at what people write in to ask. If the place and the length are already decided, request a stay quote 24/7 is a much shorter road than this page.

The street, the company and the two mailboxes

Slow Latitudes works from 9422 Common Street, Suite 2 in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, LA 70809. The company behind the name is Slow Latitudes Bookings LLC, on record with Louisiana Secretary of State. Written questions about a request go to bookings@slowlatitudes.com. Anything wrong on this site, a broken figure or a page that will not load, goes to corrections@slowlatitudes.com and gets fixed.

Send the place, the length and the month. That is enough to begin with, and the rest can be settled in writing.