How this site is arranged, from the first question to a reservation
This page lists everything on the site in one place, which is useful because the catalog is not arranged as a list. There is a short tree of questions in front of it. What follows explains the shape, so that the links below make sense before you open any of them.
The catalog starts with a question, not a list
Most travel sites open with everything they sell and leave you to scroll. This one asks one question with two answers, then a second question that depends on which answer you gave, then a third. Three questions take thirty two weeks down to four.
There are eight of those short lists, four weeks in each, running from $1,890 to $3,760 per person across thirteen countries. Nothing is hidden behind the questions. They are a filter and not a gate, and you can back out of any of them and start again.
If you would rather not be asked anything
The flat list of all thirty two weeks exists for that reason. Same weeks, same prices, no questions standing in front of them, laid out so you can read the lot in a couple of minutes.
Every week carries a number from one to four saying how much of it you could have arranged without this office. One means all of it. Four means it does not happen without an introduction. The number is printed on the weeks where it argues against us, which is the only way it is worth printing at all.
The rest of the site is ordinary office furniture
Everything that is not the catalog is the sort of thing any reservations office has to put in writing: how a reservation is actually made, what a price includes and what it leaves out, how to send a request and what happens to it, how cancellation works, and who the office is, with the postal address at 6317 N Antioch Rd, Suite 108, Gladstone, MO 64119 and the publisher, Etre Super Travel Reservations LLC.
Three things are missing on purpose. This office does not sell insurance, does not advise on visas and does not handle passports. Those are permanent refusals, not gaps waiting to be filled.
Where to start, depending on what you came for
If you want the whole thing in one page, read the page on how the office works. It covers the commission, the fact that nothing is ever charged here, and what a request turns into once it is sent.
If you would rather get on with it, start at the first question and let it narrow the field, or open the flat list and ignore the tree entirely. Both routes end at the same thirty two weeks.
The question tree
- Reserve a trip around other people's dates
- Reserve a week in Europe from Kansas City
- Reserve a week around a fixed date
- Reserve a moving trip with a Kansas City travel agent
- Reserve a stay within walking distance of a town
- Reserve a vacation week in or out of high season
- Reserve a walking week in Europe around one person
The eight shortlists
- Reserve a European trip with two or three beds
- Reserve a moving week with a new bed most nights
- Reserve a walkable town stay in Europe
- Reserve a stay with no town within walking distance
- Reserve a European vacation week in high season
- Reserve an off-season week in Europe
- Reserve a mountain walking week in Europe
- Reserve a short-day walking week in Europe
Every week
- Reserve a slow train week in the Douro valley
- Reserve a ten night Cantabrian coast trip
- Reserve an eight night trip to the Apulian heel
- Reserve a Moselle walking week for two
- Reserve an island to island week in the Hebrides
- Reserve a Balkan rail trip from Skopje
- Reserve a ten night trip through Estonia's small towns
- Reserve a hut to hut walking week in the Pyrenees
- Reserve ten nights in one Umbrian town
- Reserve a nine night stay in a working Galician port
- Book a lake town week in Carinthia
- Reserve ten nights in a lower Normandy market town
- Reserve a cottage stay in the Burren for two
- Book a farm week on the Aragon steppe
- Reserve a cabin week in Finnish Lapland
- Reserve a week in a stone hut in the Apennines
- Reserve a Palio week in Siena
- Reserve a festival week in Bayreuth for two
- Reserve a harvest week in the Douro Valley
- Reserve a ten night Austrian Alps trip
- Reserve eight nights on the Alentejo plain in January
- Reserve a Candlemas week in inland Provence
- Reserve a week in the Rhineland after carnival
- Reserve a Lent week in the Umbrian hills
- Reserve a walking week on the Kerry ridges
- Reserve a pass to pass walking week in the Dolomites
- Reserve a walking week in the Picos de Europa
- Reserve a walking week in Jotunheimen, Norway
- Reserve a level walking week along the middle Loire
- Book a level path week on the Veluwe
- Reserve a walking week on the Po plain
- Book a boat week in the Mecklenburg lakes
Everything else this desk publishes
- An independent travel agency in Kansas City
- How to read these pages
- Canceling a reserved vacation package
- Speak to a travel agent in Kansas City
- Reserve a vacation package 24/7
- Reserve a week in one of thirteen countries
- Reserve a trip around other people's dates
- Reserve a vacation week from Kansas City
- Questions before you reserve a trip from Kansas City
- How to reserve a trip with a Kansas City travel agent
- Book your trip with a travel agent in Kansas City
- Vacation package prices from Kansas City
- Six fields and nothing else
- Request a trip quote 24/7
- Every page numbered
- What we will not do
Questions that come back every week
Are the weeks in the flat list different from the ones behind the questions?
No. Thirty two weeks exist and every one of them appears in both places. The questions only decide which four you are shown first.
Do I have to answer all three questions?
No. Stop after one, go back, or skip the tree and open the flat list. Nothing is recorded and no answer commits you to anything.
Why publish a number that says the office is not needed?
Because it is true for some of the weeks. A number that only ever flattered us would not be worth reading. People read it, arrange those weeks themselves, and that is the number doing its job.