the whole site set out in a single list
Every page here, and one line on what each one holds
Thirteen places are on offer at three lengths each, seven nights, twenty one nights or fifty six, and all thirty nine figures begin at $2,065. The list below names every page here and says in one line what sits on it. Written requests are answered within one business day.
Reserve your weeksA reply is written within one business day, by a person.
One table carries the whole catalogue. Its rows are places, thirteen of them, and its columns are lengths: seven nights, twenty one nights, fifty six nights. Each of the thirty nine crossings holds a figure of its own, because the same house taken for a season and taken for a week are two purchases rather than one purchase at two sizes. Every other page on this site either feeds that table or follows from it, and each is named below with a line saying what it holds.
The places
- Tras-os-Montes, Portugal
- Las Alpujarras, Andalusia
- Ogliastra, inland Sardinia
- Valle Maira, Piedmont
- The Mani, southern Peloponnese
- The Bregenzerwald, Vorarlberg
- West Cork, Ireland
- Gudbrandsdalen, Norway
- Inland Shikoku, Japan
- Kodagu, the Coorg hills
- The Chapada Diamantina, Bahia
- The West Usambara mountains
- The Lot valley, southwest France
Two ways into the same thirty nine cells
The catalogue opens from either edge. Enter by place and you arrive at one of thirteen place pages, each setting out what seven, twenty one and fifty six nights buy at that single address, with what the figure covers and what it leaves to you. Enter by length and you arrive at one of three pages that take a duration on its own and describe what it does to a person anywhere in the catalogue. The regional page sorts the same thirteen into eight parts of the world, which suits a reader who has settled on a continent before a village. All three routes end at all thirteen places at all three lengths.
What a figure covers, and who invoices you
The pricing page takes one cell apart, shows the lines standing inside the total, and names the nine things that move it. The page on holding a let walks the sequence from a first written note through to a reservation the operating company has confirmed in writing, marking where money enters and which party takes it. Terms for calling a stay off belong to that same company and differ from place to place, so they keep a page to themselves instead of being flattened into one promise. The offers page carries whatever has been confirmed to us in writing on the day you read it, and says so plainly when the answer is nothing.
Sending a request, and getting an answer back
Two pages take a request. One is short and suits a reader who has already picked a row and a column, and it is reached at request a stay quote 24/7. The other carries the street, the telephone and the two mailboxes, and sorts out which of the three fits which sort of question. A further page answers what people tend to ask before writing at all, including several jobs this office turns down. A short page after the form confirms that a request has landed and repeats when to expect the reply.
The company, and the terms behind a reservation
The about page names the company, the address it works from and the way it earns, which is a commission paid by the operating company once a stay has ended. Terms of use, privacy and accessibility each hold a page of their own, written as plainly as those subjects allow. If a link ever drops you somewhere unintended, the page you land on repeats this same list, and corrections@slowlatitudes.com is the address that gets the broken one mended.