Three ways to speak to a travel agent in Baton Rouge

Three routes reach this office, and each one suits a different kind of question. The form at the foot of this page is for when you already know which of the thirteen places you want and which of the three lengths you are weighing, and it collects the dates and the party size in one pass. Email suits a question that needs a paragraph rather than a sentence. The telephone is there for when you would rather speak to a travel agent in Baton Rouge than type anything at all.

The address and the telephone

The form below stays open at every hour of every day, and a person works through what it collects, replying within one business day.

The card above carries the street address and the number. The office sits in a building shared with other firms in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, and post that reaches it is opened the day it lands. Slow Latitudes Bookings LLC does business under the name Slow Latitudes, and both names appear on anything sent to you. If you would rather sit down with the whole grid on paper, ask for a time through any of the three routes below and one will be set for you.

The form, and the questions it asks

The form standing at the foot of this page is the quickest way in to a written figure. It asks which of the thirteen places, which of the three lengths, the month you have in mind and how many people are going. That is enough for the office to go to the company that operates the stay and come back with a figure, what it covers and what would be needed to reserve it. The reservation is then made in your name with that company, which bills you directly; this office keeps no card number and never takes a payment, and earns its commission from the letting company only after the return. The order those steps run in is set out at how a request becomes a held let.

Email, and the questions worth writing down

Two addresses reach the office. bookings@slowlatitudes.com is for anything to do with a stay: a question about what the second week of a three week booking looks like, a request to hold two options side by side while you make up your mind, a change of month. Attachments open there, so if someone you are going with has sent you a page of dates, forward it rather than retype it. corrections@slowlatitudes.com is for something else entirely, which is this site itself: a figure that looks wrong, a description that reads out of date, a link that goes nowhere. What arrives there is checked against the operating company and the page is put right.

The telephone, and what it settles fastest

Some questions are quicker said than written. Whether a season in one place can begin on a Tuesday, whether two people can split a three week booking between two rooms, what happens when the month you want has already gone to someone else: each of those is a one minute answer by voice and three messages in writing. Call +1 (225) 766-2418 and the person answering has the same grid in front of them that you have on all thirteen places at all three lengths, and can read a row across all three lengths while you listen. What the three lengths actually mean is set out at the three lengths set out side by side.

A deadline instead of counter hours

You will not find opening times anywhere on this site, and that was chosen deliberately, not overlooked. An office that prints a pair of times is making a promise about a chair. The chair can be empty, the person in it can be on another call, and the times can be true every day of the week while your question sits unread until Thursday. So the promise here is the other one. Every request that arrives is answered within one business day, whichever of the three routes carried it and whatever hour it was sent. A Saturday message is a Monday answer. That is a promise about your question rather than about the furniture, and it is the one you can hold this office to. The same deadline covers a change or a cancellation once a booking exists, and the terms that apply then are at the cancellation terms in full.

Which side speaks first

This office never rings anyone first and never sends a text message. Every call and every message runs the other way: you begin it, the office answers it. A number left on the form is used to answer that request and for nothing else. There is nothing to join, no fee of any kind to reach anyone here, and no charge for a figure or for the work of getting one. The questions that arrive most often by all three routes are already answered at what people write in to ask, which is worth a minute before you write, if only because it can turn a long message into a short one.