Why it is to your benefit to use a personal travel agent from savvyTravel™

July 9, 2009 by savvyTravel

Why is it to your benefit to use a personal travel agent from savvyTravel™ instead of hiking through the vast internet on your own? The main benefit is saving your valuable time. Just tell an agent what you want, how much you’d like to spend, provide a few small details and then we do all the work. The comparisons, research, itinerary timings and coordination… Then we call you back with the options and our best professional recommendations and guidance.

Picture it. You are traveling in a foreign country or in a dicey part of town. When you find yourself in need of help, would you prefer to call a faceless call center or receive immediate assistance from an experienced travel professional who will come to your aid immediately?

Travel agents are your strongest support when it comes to making your arrangements because we have the resources and personal travel experience to keep you from making poor, blind choices on the internet.

One example of how far we go and how locale-versed we are is in the case of Key West. There was a couple driving down from Miami and a bad storm approached. It was late in the evening, they were exhausted, from another part of the country and had never been to the island.

The client’s agent, Marcinho, not only helped them to find the lowest available fare, car rental and the guest house that filled their ideal vision of Key West, he guided them, on the telephone, in the storm, through the last ten miles of their journey down Route 1, onto the island, down into Old Town and into the parking lot of their hotel! Then there’s Rick, the Key West Team Leader and VIP concierge. There isn’t anything about the island that he cannot arrange.

You see, the point is having someone on your side, protecting you from bad neighborhoods, poor choices in accommodations, explaining why travel insurance may or may NOT be right for you.

Another reason is that, for our wedding clients, you can deal with one point of contact, a person you know and only one phone call to make it all happen— From the Chuppa to the honeymoon. Convenient!

We’re here to compare all published rates, work with tour companies and consolidators to assure best rates, monitor sensitive travel updates, travel advisories and so much more. Recognized agents won’t charge you a cent to make your arrangements because, no matter WHICH travel provider you select, our agency is paid by them. It doesn’t matter whether a client books Cunard, Royal Caribbean, Adventures by Disney, Delta, Continental, Sheraton— you get the point.

True travel agents are not going to “push” you toward one provider or another. We will be paid by whichever you choose so our only task is to find you the right provider to give you what YOU want! That’s pretty awesome!

Want to know, for example, the most romantic, lakefront Northern Italian restaurant in Salzburg, Austria? Ask a travel agent!