Section 01 · The planning brief

What the fee covers, and what we need from you

The dossier fee is €60 per family, charged once, and it does not grow when you ask us to weigh both Turkey and Egypt against each other. It buys one planner's week on your dates: resort shortlists, a day-by-day draft, and the sourcing behind every figure in it.

Inside the brief we compare

  • Fourteen criteria in the same order on both coasts, so a Turkish week and an Egyptian week sit side by side in the same units and the same source discipline.
  • Price bands written as ranges, each one attached to party size, nights, board type, departure city and travel month.
  • Child-age logic spelled out rather than buried: a six-year-old and a thirteen-year-old need different weeks, and the draft shows you exactly where the week changes.
  • Resort shortlist rows with kids club ages, beach and water-safety notes, and medical access.

Lines we cannot confirm are marked unconfirmed and never move a price band. Each figure keeps a source dot and the date we last checked it.

Send the brief and the draft dossier reaches you by email, usually within four working days.

Start the trip brief

Trip brief

Tell us the shape of your beach week

Sandcastle Bureau drafts, plans and annotates. Partner agencies licensed by TURSAB or the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism confirm and sell every booking.

Still weighing the two coasts? The Turkey and Egypt comparison runs the same fourteen criteria on both sides.

Sending this brief takes you straight to the thank-you page.

Boundary of the studio

Who drafts the week, and who signs for it

Sandcastle Bureau drafts, plans and annotates. Partner agencies licensed by TÜRSAB or the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism quote, contract and carry the package. That split does not change from page to page.

Sandcastle Bureau
Builds the fourteen-criterion comparison, drafts the day-by-day beach week, attaches confidence badges and source dots, and marks every figure it cannot confirm. Nothing here is a booking, an offer or a confirmation.
Partner agencies
Quote the final price band, issue the contract, take payment and carry the booking, including flights, transfers, board type and resort allocation for your departure city and month.
What stays unconfirmed
Lines still missing a source dot never influence a price band, and they are shown as open questions rather than filled in with a guess. Ask for them to be verified before you sign anything.

Send the trip brief and the studio hands the finished dossier to a licensed agency. Return to the trip brief form.