travel agents

lowly26

can any one tell me the name of a travel agents around the south east or dublin that specializes in the greek islands?

or one that specializes in mexico?

or honeymoons ?

thanks !!:)

Prenderb

Trailfinders would be a place to start. That said, your own local agent can probably help too, if you know what you want?

lowly26

Prenderb wrote: »

Trailfinders would be a place to start. That said, your own local agent can probably help too, if you know what you want?

yea i had a look at trail finders but a lot of them are really far like the far east and austrailia!

Prenderb

I'm sure they'd (like most agents!) tailor make something for you if you have a specific destination in mind, like South Africa, East or West coast of USA, Mexico etc?

pwurple

Prenderb wrote: »

I'm sure they'd (like most agents!) tailor make something for you if you have a specific destination in mind, like South Africa, East or West coast of USA, Mexico etc?

??? OP specifically asked for greek islands?

ladysarah

try travelfox in little island co cork. excellent service and prices.

lowly26

ladysarah wrote: »

try travelfox in little island co cork. excellent service and prices.

thanks will look them up!!

Supraman

I honestly could not look past trailfinders , we've booked our honeymoon with them recently . We found their service was excellent spent a good 40-45 mins with salesman , no pressure at all from him .

Good advice knew his stuff , we costed the holiday online aswell and except for one hotel out of five we.could not find cheaper for standard we wanted ( west coast america trip ) .

Don't go by their brochure prices , call in spend a bit of time with the sales people in there . I found the rest of the staff that day spending similar time with their customers .

Nothing worse than someone giving you less than two mins of their time for what should be a very special trip .

We priced several other agents they were all between 1000-2300 more than TF ,crazy rip-off republic prices with the rest .

Id imagine they'd easily come up with something suitable for you .

paulbok

+1 for Trailfinders. They were extremely helpful and were even able to get a booking with a specific hotel we wanted that they didn't usually deal with to build into our honeymoon.
We looked at prganising the same trip ourselves but for the sake of €200/300 they organised everything and more importantly, all the risk/liability for flights etc were with them.
AFAIK they have different tour agents that specialise with different parts of the world so the Greek islands shouldn't be a problem.

lowly26

paulbok wrote: »

+1 for Trailfinders. They were extremely helpful and were even able to get a booking with a specific hotel we wanted that they didn't usually deal with to build into our honeymoon.
We looked at prganising the same trip ourselves but for the sake of €200/300 they organised everything and more importantly, all the risk/liability for flights etc were with them.
AFAIK they have different tour agents that specialise with different parts of the world so the Greek islands shouldn't be a problem.

thanks maybe its just the way im navagiating their site that i just cant seem to find it.

Jerrica

lowly26 wrote: »

thanks maybe its just the way im navagiating their site that i just cant seem to find it.

their brochures are pretty poor but if you can call into one of their branches, it's worth a trip. We've just put a deposit on our trip through Trailfinders and I couldn't say nicer things about them, it's good value for money*, the service is great, everyone is easy to talk to and we were put in touch with someone who had been to the specific region we were looking into.

*I'm sure if we really put our minds to it we'd have been able to find cheaper, but it's a honeymoon, I'm happy to let someone else do some of the hard work

lowly26

does any one know if the have an office in the waterford/wexford/wicklow area?

Berty

I'm just back from Cancun and Las Vegas and we used Topflight Worldwide. We used Helen and she was very helpful.

Surely every other Travel Agent does the Greek Islands anyway but not many are good at Worldwide trips. They might try their hand at it but they might not have good local agents getting them the best prices as the bigger ones would.

Get a PDF quote from one company, give it to another and let them beat that price then start the same process again with another travel agent. We did this and the trip came down €750 or so and we were able to upgrade our room to a Honeymoon Suite with the saving.

Berty

Oh and this

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056976627

Cheapo Flight to Hawaii right now. Travel agents should be able to find them as well.

Corkbah

were using Hugh Staunton in Tropical sky .... have booked several holidays through him, he seems to know what we want....which is sometimes off the beaten track.

for mexico there's a lady in USIT in Dublin (blonde) - cant remember her name but she lived there for a number of years ...very knowledgeable, very enthusiastic ...would recommend her for travelling to mexico ... but do check what the weather will be like at that time of year.

Berty

Corkbah wrote: »

were using Hugh Staunton in Tropical sky .... have booked several holidays through him, he seems to know what we want....which is sometimes off the beaten track.

I didn't book with Hugh Staunton in the end only because his boss wanted a 2k deposit(flights needed paying for immediately) but Topflight only wanted €800 for the same flights/hotels etc. Other than that Hugh Staunton was an excellent and helpful Agent.