I booked my reservation on March 30th with a deposit. I did not get "approved" for the tour until April 3rd (6 days later). It caused a problem for me because I am flying with 4 other girls and the flights were filling up. Expect it to take longer than 48 hours to get your confirmation. I wrote to TourRadar each day asking if they could please speed it up (it amounts to just checking to see if each leg of the tour is open) but no good. They DO respond back within 24 hours but they don't actually do the work for 4 to 6 days. So if you are booking with friends, not good.:) Hoping the tour operators are more on the ball.:) I have heard the tour is a good tour, this is just the administrative part of it.