Greetings, Travelers! I just wanted to keep you informed about potential departure dates for the Italy trip. As you are aware, we may not know our actual departure/travel dates for some time yet, because our group will be consolidated with others to get a "full" tour.
In speaking with our tour consultant today, he encouraged me to expand the range of available dates for departure, as it means we will be more likely to get our "first choice" tour. (I think most of the students are aware of this, but upon creating our group tour I have to choose a couple "backup" tours in case we cannot get enough travelers to make it run. Since I assume most people want the tour we have talked about to date, I felt that was a priority).
Because I have conflicts with moving the departure dates earlier (and students do, too, at least until the end of the school year), I expanded the date range through the end of June. We'll talk about this at the Feb 7 meeting, but it essentially means you should
be prepared to potentially depart anywhere from June 17-30. At the meeting, I would like to hear if anyone has conflicts with those dates and what they are, because I can adjust it further if need be (to some degree). EF needs at least 9 days of flexibility for departure.
We will have our firm departure date no later than early April, so we will know plenty of time in advance of departure. But please be aware that
at this time that our travel dates are not firm. It will say a departure date on your online account (June 17), but this is merely our requested date, we are not guaranteed to leave that day.
Great news! Yesterday after school I received a call from our tour consultant concerning our much anticipated departure date. I got the best news I possibly could have from him: 
