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Cedar Passage Bookings LLC 2100 3rd Avenue North, Suite 440, Birmingham, AL 35203 +1 (205) 241-3708
Cedar Passage
Dry stone walls dividing golden upland pasture at sunrise, a pale track curving past broad trees to a lone stone farmhouse with smoke rising

The house shape, and what happens when you break it

One shape of holiday and thirty documented changes to it, so reserve a week with a travel agent in Birmingham

This office sells one week and knows it inside out. Reserve a week with a travel agent in Birmingham exactly as it stands, or name a part of it to break: everything else here is that week with a part taken out and something else put in, with the figure the change makes.

This office is an independent travel agency. It is not a tour operator, an airline, a hotel or a booking site, it takes no payment and holds no card details, and it gives no advice on entry documents or insurance.

Everything in this book is the house shape with a part taken out, and the page for each one says which part before it says anything else.

The house shape, in full

  1. eight nights
  2. one base
  3. a hire car
  4. two hours from where you land
  5. out every day and back to the same bed
  6. shoulder season
  7. two people

from $2,340 for two sharing

Read why each part of the house shape is there

Six changes people ask for first

There is no package on this site that somebody has not already asked for, and the thirty in the book are the requests that came back more than once.

  • A steep flight of wide stone steps climbing a narrow lane between shuttered stone houses, a metal handrail on the right, sunlit wall above

    The Umbrian hill country

    Italy · twelve nights instead of eight

    from $2,890 two sharing one part changed
  • Flat limestone slabs cut by deep grass-filled cracks, dark rainwater pools in worn hollows, a dry stone wall along the far edge

    The Burren and south Connemara

    Ireland · a driver instead of a hire car

    from $3,140 two sharing one part changed
  • A lone cork oak in bleached dry pasture, lower trunk stripped to a red band, pale boulders and flat stubble fields beyond

    The Alentejo plain

    Portugal · five nights instead of eight

    from $1,690 two sharing one part changed
  • A wide packed snow road running dead straight and level to a flat horizon, tall marker poles along both ploughed verges

    The Jura plateau

    France · deep winter instead of shoulder season

    from $2,410 two sharing one part changed
  • A narrow village lane of grey stone houses with green shutters and a glazed green gallery, wet paving slabs and a dark parked car

    The Asturian coast road

    Spain · four of you instead of two

    from $2,180 two sharing one part changed
  • A whitewashed monastery wedged under a vast limestone overhang, a cobbled footpath switchbacking below it to a shallow rocky stream

    Inland Arcadia

    Greece · four hours from the airport, not two

    from $2,260 two sharing one part changed

All thirty changes, in one list · Sorted by how far they take you from the shape

The flight is no part of the house shape

Airport pair
When you fly
Party on the ticket

The shape this office sells begins where you land, so the crossing has never been inside any figure here and that button does not reach this desk. Six entries go across to a booking company, a firm of its own, approached through a host wearing a name this domain lends out. What it sends back is its property alone: the prices, true at the second they show, the terms, the ticket, and a card keyed on its pages, because no field on this site will take card digits. Whatever it later settles with this office was fixed before you came and is taken from its end, not added to yours. What the box carries away, and what it works out here.

How the office reads a change

Two parts of the shape can usually be changed together, three begins to cost more than either change is worth, and the office will say which case you are in.

  • It starts from one week

    Eight nights, one base, a car, two hours from where you land. Everything is measured from that.

  • You name the part

    Not a destination first. The part of the shape you want gone, and what you want instead.

  • The figure moves with it

    Every change has a price attached, up or down, and it is printed beside the change.

  • The answer comes in writing

    Inside one working day, saying what the week becomes and what it costs whole.

How far from the shape, in four steps

How farChanges LowestHighest
one part changed10from $1,690from $3,880
two or three parts changed9from $2,270from $3,720
almost nothing of the shape left7from $2,870from $5,240
the shape turned inside out4from $1,980from $6,480

The six lowest figures in the book

Every figure is a starting amount for two sharing, and it stops being a starting amount only when the supplier puts a confirmed one in writing.

Name the changes and the office will answer

Write and say which parts of the shape you want changed, and the office answers inside one working day with what that does to the week and to the figure.

The house shape is eight. Put the number you actually want.

Say which parts you want changed and roughly when, and the answer comes back with what the week becomes and one figure for the whole of it.

Nothing on this page holds anything. A week is held when the supplier writes to you and you write back, and not one moment before that.