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You probably paid a travel agent to arrange the dance lesson for him.
and if I did, why would you care? hell why do you care how anyone spends his or her hard earned money? You blew a wad on a travel trailer that you park 1 hr from Edmonton, and fly Porter, your choice. Not ones I would make, but it isn't my life.
 
and if I did, why would you care? hell why do you care how anyone spends his or her hard earned money? You blew a wad on a travel trailer that you park 1 hr from Edmonton, and fly Porter, your choice. Not ones I would make, but it isn't my life.
I just can't get over the fact that anyone still uses a travel agent in 2024 or that you would need one to book a trip to an amusement park in the US that you have been to multiple times. By now I should think you know more about WDW than any travel agent possibly could.
 
I just can't get over the fact that anyone still uses a travel agent in 2024 or that you would need one to book a trip to an amusement park in the US that you have been to multiple times. By now I should think you know more about WDW than any travel agent possibly could.
let me type it out in crayon

It used to be $45 per traveller to use but now it's 78. 3x78= $236.00. My hourly rate at work is $485 (likely higher in 2025). It definitely takes more than 30 min to book my holidays so why would I spend my time researching, booking, waiting on line with airlines, hotels etc. She is the pro, if she makes a mistake, she has insurance, she will see travel agent deals through wholesalers, and if something happens when I'm away, it gets fixed Case in point, 2010 arrive at hotel in Italy, sorry no room, wife pulls out phone, threatens to call agent, they find a room. Had we gone expedia or trivago, tough tit.

Agent knows where/type of hotel we like, flights we like, etc.

More than worth the miniscule cost.
 
let me type it out in crayon

It used to be $45 per traveller to use but now it's 78. 3x78= $236.00. My hourly rate at work is $485 (likely higher in 2025). It definitely takes more than 30 min to book my holidays so why would I spend my time researching, booking, waiting on line with airlines, hotels etc. She is the pro, if she makes a mistake, she has insurance, she will see travel agent deals through wholesalers, and if something happens when I'm away, it gets fixed Case in point, 2010 arrive at hotel in Italy, sorry no room, wife pulls out phone, threatens to call agent, they find a room. Had we gone expedia or trivago, tough tit.

Agent knows where/type of hotel we like, flights we like, etc.

More than worth the miniscule cost.
Well worth it
 
If i was going to a country with which i was unfamiliar, especially a country where i couldn't rely on English or even fake it by deducing what words meant (like an Asian country that doesn't use our alphabet) or any country where staying in the wrong neighborhood can get you killed, then yes, I would likely use an agent. But I don't need an agent to book a trip to Paris, London or anywhere in the US or Canada.

Planning ones own holiday can actually be fun. I booked a trip to Paris years ago. Booked the flights, hotel, rail passes, a hotel in Bayeux, transit passes, a tour of Chartres Cathedral, and a 2 day D-Day beaches tour, and tickets to a PSG match all by internet and, in the case of the little hotel in Bayeux, by phone with a man who didn't speak a word of English.
 
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