Reserve a stay by place and by length, from seven nights to fifty six

Thirteen places are listed on this page at three lengths each, thirty nine cells in one table and a figure in all of them. You can reserve a stay by place and by length, which in practice means choosing a row and then a column. The figures begin at $2,065 in the shortest cell and reach $12,421 in the longest, and each one is the price of the accommodation for the number of nights standing at the head of its column.

Slow Latitudes Bookings LLC takes the request at 9422 Common Street, Suite 2 in Baton Rouge, LA, and passes it to the company that owns or runs the property. That company confirms your dates, puts the final figure in writing and bills you itself. Slow Latitudes keeps no card details and handles none of the money; the office is paid a commission by the operating company once you are home again.

The thirteen names run down the left edge of the table. The three lengths stand along the top: seven nights, twenty one nights, fifty six nights.

One place at three lengths

A row holds one place three times, and the three are not one product with a multiplier applied to it. Seven nights is the visit. You get there, you see the thing that made you choose the place, you eat twice at whichever restaurant was good on the first evening, and then you are on your way home. Twenty one nights snaps that shape. By the middle of the second week there is nothing left that can surprise you, so the week turns into something other than sightseeing: the market stops being an outing and becomes a Tuesday errand, because Tuesday is the morning the growers come down from the hills. Fifty six nights changes the category again. Somewhere in the fifth week you are no longer a visitor. The woman at the bakery starts the order before you speak. Somebody notices you were away for two days and asks where you went.

One length across thirteen places

A column fixes the length and lets the place vary. Most people come to the table this way round, since the number of nights is usually settled by something that has nothing to do with travel: the leave you have accrued, a term that ends in June, the gap between one contract and the next. If three weeks is what you have and three weeks is all you have, the middle column is the entire catalogue as far as you are concerned, and the thirteen figures inside it sit a long way apart. What pulls them apart is what accommodation costs locally in the month you would be there, and not the size of the room you would be in.

What the starting figure covers

Each cell is a from figure. It is the opening point for that place at that length: the standard room, or the smaller of two apartments, in the quieter half of that place's year. It covers the accommodation for the nights named, together with whatever the operating company treats as ordinary there, which usually comes down to utilities, linen and the cleaning pattern that a stay of that length attracts. It leaves out your flight, which remains your own arrangement and is not something this office supplies. It leaves out ground transport, and it leaves out food unless the entry for that place tells you otherwise. Where getting to a place involves a scheduled crossing, the operating company carries that under its own licence and shows it on your confirmation.

Ask through request a stay quote 24/7 and the operating company's figure for your exact dates comes back to you before you commit to any of it. the cancellation terms in full sets out how that company's terms usually run and the point at which they begin to matter.

What one night costs at each length

Divide a cell by its nights, seven or twenty one or fifty six, and you have a figure for a single night. Do that along a row and the three answers are different numbers. This is arithmetic rather than a courtesy, and the cause of it sits on the operating company's side of the ledger. A room held by one household for eight weeks is not emptied, cleaned and filled again every Saturday. One arrival is dealt with instead of eight. Linen leaves on a fortnightly cycle rather than a weekly one. There are no vacant Sundays between one departure and the next arrival, and eight weeks occupies a single line in the operator's records instead of eight separate lines. The handling falls once over the whole stretch instead of eight times over the same nights.

All three figures are printed on one line so that you can do the division yourself and see what each length asks of you. Which of the three suits you is not a question this office settles, because the answer depends on how long you can be away and on what you want the place to have become by the time you leave. the three lengths set out side by side takes the three apart at greater length.

Placing the reservation

Bookings can be asked for through the form on this page at any hour Name the place and name the length, in the plainest words you have; the row and the column are enough to begin with. how a request becomes a held let runs through everything that stands between that message and a confirmed reservation, and there is not much of it. Requests are answered within one business day, by return to bookings@slowlatitudes.com or on +1 (225) 766-2418 if you would rather say it out loud, and this office never rings you first.

Entry rules for wherever you are going are a matter between you and the authority that issues the documents; this office does not advise on them. what people write in to ask deals with the questions that come up most often about the table above.