Vacation package
Caribbean All Inclusive, Seven Nights
A week at one beachfront property with meals, drinks and airport transfers included, quoted for two people sharing a room. This is the trip most people mean when they say they want a beach holiday and do not want to think about it again until they are home.
What this package actually is
An all inclusive week is a single decision. You choose the property, and after that the food, the drinks and the beach are all covered by the price you already paid. There is no bill at the end of dinner, no working out whether the second cocktail was a mistake, and no hunt for lunch on the third day.
That simplicity is the whole product. It is also why the price comparison is unusually honest: when almost everything is in the price, two quotes can be compared directly, which is not true of most trips.
from $1,190 per person, based on two sharing
This is a starting figure for the season shown. The final price is confirmed in writing before anything is booked and depends on your dates, the number travelling and what is available when we ask. How a price is put together.
What decides where you end up
We do not have one property we send everybody to. Four things move the answer, and we will ask you about all of them before quoting.
| What we ask | Why it changes the property |
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| Who is travelling | Adults only properties and family properties are different buildings with different noise, different pools and different evening entertainment. Sending a couple to a family resort in July is the single most common way this trip goes wrong. |
| How much you want to leave the property | Some resorts sit an hour from anything. Others are ten minutes from a town you can walk into. Neither is better; they suit different people, and it is worth saying which you are. |
| What you eat | Properties differ enormously in whether the restaurants need booking, whether they close on certain nights, and how they handle allergies and coeliac diets. We will ask, and we will check before you go rather than after. |
| What the room looks out on | The gap between a garden room and an ocean front room is often the largest single line in the quote. Sometimes it is worth it. Often it is not, because you will be on the beach. |
What we do not promise
We do not promise the lowest price on the internet. Rates on this kind of trip move weekly, and anybody who tells you a figure is the lowest is telling you something they cannot know.
What we do instead is show you what the figure is made of, on pricing, and tell you when a week is a bad week to go. The season line above is not decoration. It is the part of this page most likely to save you money.
What is settled before you pay anything
| Where and how long | Seven nights at one property on a Caribbean beach, plus the flights to reach it. You do not change hotels and you do not move islands. Most people fly out on a Saturday and come back the following Saturday, because that is how the flights and the room rates line up, but any length from five to ten nights can be quoted. |
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| What kind of trip | All inclusive. One price at the property covers the room, the meals, the soft and alcoholic drinks, the non motorised watersports and the tips. It is the least complicated kind of trip we sell and the easiest to compare honestly, because almost nothing is added afterwards. |
| What is included | Round trip flights from Boise with one connection, seven nights in a garden or partial view room for two sharing, all meals and drinks at the property, transfers between the airport and the property, the resort levy, and a written itinerary with every confirmation number on one page. |
| What is not included | Travel insurance, which we will quote and which we recommend. Passport fees. Anything charged by the property that sits outside its all inclusive plan, which is usually the spa, motorised watersports, a private beach dinner and excursions off site. Departure taxes that some islands collect in cash at the airport, which we will name in your proposal by amount. |
| When it makes sense, and when it does not | It makes sense from December to April, when the weather is settled and the rooms are full, and again in late April and May, when the rates fall and the weather usually holds. It does not make sense from August to early October: that is hurricane season, rooms are cheap for a reason, and a week of rain in a resort you cannot leave is a bad week. We will say so rather than sell it to you. |
| What is settled when we confirm | The property, the room category, the exact flights with times, the transfer arrangement, the total for your party, what is due now and what is due later, and the supplier's cancellation terms in full. All of it in writing, before any money moves. |