The Savvy Tourist

It Pays to use a Travel Agent

The general belief or myth is that is costs more to use a travel agent when booking your vacation. That is simply not true. Actually, the opposite can be true after you see what kind of special deals an agent has access to and the savings you will incur thanks to their expertise. I was a travel agent for many years and still get requests for assistance with vacations from my readers and past clients. I can offer advice but I no longer have any affiliation that allows me to book trips, so I ask anyone out there that is interested in planning a vacation, please call Carolyn, a.k.a. Blondie, at Why Not Travel. You will be in good hands.

For more information on why you should consider the services of a travel agent, check out a post I wrote a few years back, Why Travel Agents?  And don't forget to read How to be a Good Customer

 

Chicken Buses Are Not Air Conditioned

 This is what I read this morning while shopping for travel gear suitable for our upcoming Thailand trip. One of my favorite affiliate travel vendors, Walkabout Travel Gear LLC sells a nice cooling fan that you wear around your neck with a reminder that chicken buses are not air conditioned. Chicken buses are the local buses in some countries where you share your ride with the livestock as well as anyone or anything else that needs transporting between point A and point B. For movie lovers, you can relate it to the "Bus to Cartagena" from "Romancing the Stone .

Maybe I need to watch that movie again before I go on my trip.