Reserve a stay at a figure you get in writing, and see every line inside it

Every cell in the matrix is a whole stay total for one property at one length, and you can reserve a stay at a figure you get in writing before a cent is due to anybody. The writing names the property, the nights, how many people the total assumes, the currency the operating company will bill in, and each separate line that sits inside the total. It goes to you as a document and it holds for fourteen days.

Length sets the figure before anything else

A nightly rate is built around turnover. Every change of guest costs the owner a cleaning crew, a laundry run, a key handed over in person, and a gap night that nobody sleeps in. A property taking eight separate guests across eight weeks carries eight of those. The same property let once across the same eight weeks carries one. That is the entire mechanism, and it is why the three columns of all thirteen places at all three lengths are priced as three products and not as one product multiplied out.

Work it through. Take a house that goes into the matrix at $210 a night over seven nights, so the week is written at $1,470. At twenty one nights the same house is written at $3,570, which is $170 a night. At fifty six nights it is written at $6,720, which is $120 a night. Both numbers are printed in all thirty nine cells, and the arithmetic between the columns is yours to do.

Owners do not all think alike. In several of these places the household has said plainly that eight quiet weeks suit the house better than eight busy Saturdays: one arrival, one departure, one set of linen. Where that is so, the season column reflects it. Where it is not, the season column sits close to the week carried out fifty six times.

The month, and how full the property already is

Two levers sit together here. The month sets a base, because a working village in its working season is one figure and the same village in February is another. Occupancy then moves that base: when a property is already committed for most of a month, the nights left over are priced around the shape of the gap they sit in, and a three week request landing across two gaps can come back written in two parts at two figures, each on its own line.

How far ahead the request is made

A request sent ten months out is answered against a calendar that is mostly empty, and the operating company will usually hold its figure for the full fourteen days. A request sent three weeks out is answered against whatever remains, and the same company may hold that figure for seventy two hours instead. The writing says which picture you are looking at and how long it stands. how a request becomes a held let sets out the sequence from a first message to a confirmed reservation.

The house, and whether it is heated

Standard is a physical description, not a grade: bedrooms, whether a bathroom is shared with the household, whether the kitchen works, whether the hot water comes from a tank that needs an hour of warning. Heating moves a figure twice over. A property with fixed heating can be let in months when an unheated one is simply shut, so it carries a longer season and a different price across it. In cold months the fuel is often metered and billed by the operating company on departure, and the writing then names that arrangement rather than folding it in.

What arrives with the keys

Ground transport is quoted only where a property sits far enough from a public road that arrival is a job in itself: a track vehicle, a driver meeting a scheduled service, or a stretch of water. Where the last stretch is water, the crossing belongs to the operating company and is held under its own licence; this office arranges none of it and prints only the line that company gives. Ground transport is always its own figure on its own line.

Some properties come with a kitchen, a shop five minutes away and nothing else. Some carry one cooked meal a day because the household eats at a set hour. Where meals are in the total, the writing says how many, on which days, and what happens on the days you are out.

Two people, one room

The matrix assumes two people sharing one room, because that is how the operating companies price their properties. One person in a room costs the household what two cost, so a traveller going alone is quoted a supplement instead of half a figure. That supplement is printed as its own line, it goes to the operating company with everything else, and this office takes no part of it. A third or fourth person usually adds a room, and that second room appears as a separate line too.

The currency the bill arrives in

The operating company bills you in the currency it keeps its books in. Every figure in the matrix is a dollar conversion made on a stated day, and the writing names the billing currency next to the dollar figure. Between that day and the day the company charges you the conversion can move, and its figure in its own currency governs. No card details are held here and no payment of any kind is taken. the cancellation terms in full covers what happens to a written figure if the stay is called off.

There is no arrangement charge, no handling charge and nothing added under any other name. The figure you are given is the letting company's own number, and nothing here can move it. There is no lever for adding to it.

The flight, and how this office is paid

The flight is yours. It is outside every cell of the matrix, it is quoted nowhere on this site, and you arrange it with whoever you choose. Entry rules are a matter between you and the authority that issues them, and this office does not advise on them.

The traveller pays this office a fee of zero, at every length. Its income is a commission from the operating company once you are home again, which is why your written figure is that company's own figure with nothing added on top. Availability against a written figure runs Bookings can be asked for through the form on this page at any hour. Send your dates and your length through request a stay quote 24/7 and the answer comes back within one business day; the three lengths set out side by side explains what twenty one nights does that seven cannot, and what people write in to ask holds the questions people ask before they commit.