I have a new travel agency – it’s actually mine, for all intents and purposes. I have decided to call it Here I Go Again Travel. Hopefully a LOT of you will be participating in going again and again and again!! I think too many people have some mistaken assumptions about travel agents and I want to make sure that I clear some things up straight out of the gate:
Using a travel agent is FREE TO YOU!
Cruise lines and tour companies – especially ones like Disney and Universal – know that much of their business comes from travel agents and therefore they work closely with people just like me to ensure that you have a wonderful vacation! So why use me to book your vacation? I have the answer to that next! Need to make a change, or add something to your vacation package? You have to call and sit and wait to speak to someone, and then it’s someone new every time, and you have to explain your whole story and situation over and over? When you work with me, I will sit on the phone and wait – not you! And you don’t have to tell your story repeatedly, because I already know it! If you have a rewards account with any cruise line or hotel chain, all of your deals you receive in email or snail mail are attached to that rewards number. You can use that rewards number with me, when I make a reservation for you and get all of those things you were promised by that vendor! Lastly, and possibly most importantly, we have all come to enjoy supporting small businesses, especially ones owned by our friends. This is in fact, my small business. When you book that Christmas cruise, that bus tour of Italy, the river cruise up the Rhine, or that weeks’ vacation with the kids at their choice of amusement park, you are helping me to become a successful partner to that vendor and thus a successful agent! I love helping people go places and visit somewhere they haven’t been, or somewhere they love to go. I would love it if you allowed me to help you go – again and again!
