Sweet Salmon River Rafting: Pricing

$1,950 per person

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OUR PAYMENT PLAN ROCKS No interest, no fees monthly payment plan

What’s included?
- 6 days of river rafting
- Scenic flight from Stanley to day 1 put-in spot
- Wilderness camping equipment, including tents, two dry bags for clothing and equipment, sleeping bag, sleeping pad, pillow and rain gear.
- Gourmet meals and beverages from lunch day 1 to lunch day 6. Some beer, wine and margaritas provided. You can purchase alcohol prior to departure that the crew will store for you.
- Nightly entertainment by your talented river guides
- Transportation back to Stanley on day 6
- All rafting equipment, including oar boats, paddle raft and inflatable Kayaks (when river levels permit)
- Seasoned guides licensed by the state of Idaho and First Aid Certified
- All U.S. Forest Service fees

What’s not included?
- Transportation to and from Stanley (rent a car or charter a small plane)
- Accommodations in Stanley the night of the 7th are not included, but guests must arrive on the 7th for a mandatory pre-trip meeting at 7pm.
- Optional tipping to guides 10 to 20 percent of trip cost depending on your level of satisfaction.
- Fishing poles are not provided. Fishing permits can be purchased prior to departure.

How to get to and from Stanley
- Fly into Boise, Idaho, on August 7, 2011.
- Rent a car and drive to Stanley, Idaho, for a pre-trip meeting at 7pm, August 8, 2011. Drive from Boise to Stanley is about three hours.
- Overnight at the Mountain Village Lodge (mention “Middle Fork River Expeditions” for a special rate)
- Plan to fly stay at the Mountain Village Lodge on August 7, 2011, return your car and fly out of Boise on August 14.

Lodging before and after our trip
Stay at the Mountain Village Lodge. Tell them you’re with Middle Fork River Expeditions for a special room rate on August 7 and / or 14. It’s mandatory to arrive in Stanley for our pre-departure meeting on the August 7. Book early as the hotel is the only one in town. For more information, call 800.843.5475.

Sweet Salmon River Rafting cancellation policy
If you cancel 90 days or more prior to your vacation, we’ll move your non-refundable $250 deposit to another Sweet vacation and refund the balance of any payments above your deposit within 30 days of receiving your cancellation. If you cancel 89 to 1 days prior to your vacation, we’ll move your paid balance to the vacation of your choosing less a $100 per guest.

To cancel, call us at 877.793.3830 or email us at boohoo@discoversweet.com.

Interest free, fee free monthly payment plan
With all the bad economic news streaming past you day in and day out, we thought we’d bring you some good news: Our interest-free, fee-free monthly payment plan. It’s simple and you can take your sweet time. After your initial deposit, equal monthly payments will be charged to your credit card up to 60 days prior to departure. We’ll email you an invoice each month when we charge your card. The best part is that it doesn’t cost you a single penny more to pay over time.

You deserve a vacation. Sweet wants to make sure you can afford one. Call us at 877.793.3830 (international callers 415.642.9200) and reserve your place today.

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99 Comments

9 Comments

Martha
10/16/08
10:00 am

Please tell me who the outfitter will be for this trip. I took a similar trip on the lower Salmon River about 8 years ago and ROW was the outfitter. An exceptional company, they provided us will an all-woman staff. Is there any single’s supplement required for this trip?
Please add me to your e-mail list for this and any future trips.

Nicoll
10/21/08
12:39 pm

Hi Martha,

The outfitter we are working with is Middle Fork River Expeditions and the parent company is Eco Family Adventures.

MFRE is an awesome outfitter that does carbon offsets all their river trips through the purchase of Green Tags, which accounts for transportation to/from the river, as well as how much charcoal they burn. They also recycle everything from the trips (glass, plastic, aluminum etc.), including food waste which is fed to pigs at a local farm and/or composted or used in worm bins. They also recently purchased a 120 gallon vegetable oil tank to burn used cooking oil from the Mountain Village Restaurant in Stanley for their Ford F350 Diesel truck used to transport the equipment to/from the river. They also follow Leave No Trace Ethics and purchase all guest households a yearly membership to Idaho Rivers United, a non-profit organization whose focus is Salmon Recovery on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River!

We have asked for female guides and will likely have 1/2 female and 1/2 male guides. All MFRE guides are excellent, very knowledgeable of the area, are excellent cooks, love what they do and to share it with their guests! We don’t think that you will be disappointed at all in the MFRE guides or the experience that Sweet and MFRE have planned for you on the river!

Also, to answer your question about single supplement, Sweet and MFRE are not charging a single supplement for this trip. In this particular case there are no restrictions on the number of tents we can set up at each site. Our only restriction is the number of people which is 24 guests. So you will be in an intimate but fun group while enjoy the Middle Fork of the Salmon…how Sweet!!!

Stay Sweet,

Nicoll

crystal
02/11/09
6:33 pm

i plan to go next year….. Yes

Kristin Flickinger
06/25/09
10:31 am

I grew up a stone’s throw from here. Pretty sure it’s the most beautiful country around. This will be a seriously kick-ass adventure, ladies.

Edie
12/09/09
7:47 pm

Can you give us some info on where we fly to in Idaho? And then we need to get to Stanley? Any idea of the cost of that flight?

Chris
12/29/09
8:44 pm

anyone going from Florida ?? e-mail Chris unhurdof@earthlink.net this sounds awesome !!

Dianne
02/21/10
10:36 pm

Any age restrictions? Fitness levels?

Jill
03/08/10
3:43 pm

Is there any other way to get to Stanley other than renting a car? I’m coming from Calif. and would like to share a rental with several others. That goes for rooming in Stanley as well.

I’d love to explore Boise before I fly home. I just flew to Oregon on Alaska Air and their in-flight magazine had a whole spread on the city. Looks like some interesting places to visit. Maybe check out the night life on Sat 21 and fly home later on the 22nd. Anyone game?

If you’re on FB you can find me, Jill Boulet Murray. Friend me with Raft Buddy in the subject. And I will check back here as well.

Can’t wait!!!! Jillb

Flavia
03/08/10
5:44 pm

Hi Jill,

It is such a great idea to share a ride from Boise. The drive to Stanley is about 2.5 hours depending on how use to driving on curvy roads you are. Once you are in Stanley you will leave the car for the entire trip in a secured parking lot. So it would be great if some of the ladies wanted to share the expense.

The only other way to get to Stanley from Boise is to take a small and rather expensive flight.

I spent a full day in Boise and wish I had had more time. It is such a charming and lively city. However, I would suggest that you over night in Stanley the night of the 21st. We have a long journey back to Stanley from the point in the river where we get back on dry land. In fact we have to take about a 5 hour bus ride back to Stanley and do not get arrive until about 5pm. I highly doubt you will want to get right back into a car.

I am more then happy to send an email to the group regarding your interest in sharing room and ride. So far the ladies we have joining us are so great! It is going to be a fantastic trip.

Stay Sweet!

Flavia

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