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If you want a 3-day cookie-cutter package and are confident handling your own transfers and ferry timings, the big aggregators are fine. We are for the trip that needs thought. A honeymoon with a private beach dinner. A family with a 7-year-old and a 65-year-old. A 10-day itinerary that has to fit three islands and a dive certification. You get one person who knows the islands, builds the trip, and is on WhatsApp when something goes sideways. Most aggregators outsource the support to a call centre. We do not.

No. The quote is free. There is no charge to revise it. We only see money once you confirm with a deposit. If you decide not to travel with us, we are not out anything except a few hours of one team member's time. That is fine. Most enquiries do not convert. The ones that do, more than make up for it.

On ferries, almost nothing. Operators sell to us at the same price you would pay at the jetty. We add a small handling fee (under 5%) to cover the cost of holding seats for you. On hotels, our quoted rate is usually within 5% of the rack rate. Sometimes lower because we have partner-rate access. We make our money on the planning value-add and the package margin, not on hidden markups.

Before confirmation, change anything. The whole point of the quote phase is to iterate. After confirmation, small changes (an extra activity, a meal upgrade, a different room category) we handle without re-quoting. Bigger changes (different resort, different dates) trigger a re-quote and any price difference. We do not charge a change fee on small things. We do for the big ones because they require redoing supplier bookings.

Ferry cancellations: we re-book you on the next sailing, even if it means waking up someone at the operator's office at 6 AM. If the only option is a same-day flight or seaplane, we will quote it and you decide. Cyclones: we watch the IMD forecast daily once you are booked. If a system is approaching during your dates, you get a WhatsApp from us 72 hours ahead with options to reschedule or proceed. We have a documented refund policy specifically for weather cancellations. Read the cyclone playbook on our blog for the full breakdown.

The refund is initiated through Razorpay within 4 hours of your cancellation being processed. Razorpay then takes 5 to 10 business days to credit it to your original payment method (faster for UPI, slower for credit cards). If something fails on the Razorpay side (rare but it happens) we get a notification the same day and arrange a UPI transfer ourselves. You always get the money. The track record is on the staff side of our admin if you ever want to ask for it.

Yes. The Andamans issue a free 30-day Restricted Area Permit to foreign nationals on arrival at Port Blair airport. We handle the rest the same as for Indian travellers, except we usually suggest a slightly longer trip (the flight is more of a commitment) and we lean on resorts that are comfortable with foreign guests for food and service. Quoted in INR. We can invoice in USD or GBP for accounting purposes if you ask.

That works too. The Cruises search on our site lets you book a single ferry leg in two minutes, no planning conversation needed. Real-time inventory, same payment flow. Use this if you have already booked your hotels and just need the transfers. The planning service is for when you want help thinking through the whole trip.