Crystal is the best! The hubs and I are scheduled to travel…read moreto Italy from late August-early September 2020 and in the midst of this Covid 19 issue, Crystal was thoughtful enough to reach out to us and just keep us informed of our reservations (flights/Cruise/train travel, etc) and has put our minds at ease. Crystal is not only thoughtful and kind, she is truly passionate about what she does and incredibly sincere.... she is truly salt of the earth. We are so grateful we found Crystal. Thank you for all you do Crystal! We truly appreciate you & Kahala! Stay safe and healthy everyone!

If I could give 10 stars I would!! Tracy is amazing and the best travel agent. She booked our…read morehoneymoon to Bora Bora and everything was planned to perfection, anywhere we went transportation was already set up and ready. It was an effortless trip since Tracy had everything planned out. We used her again for a cruise and something went wrong with the booking and she got the cruise line to fix it and actually give us additional credits. I had never used a travel agent before her and always did everything myself and I can tell you it feels so nice to have someone like her to take of everything for you!!! 10 Stars !!!

Amazingly ... bad…read more You think you are getting a deal ... and everything seems fine ... until you land ... after a flight transfer in Hong Kong ... a total of 14 hours in the air ... and after clocking over 6,700 miles ... and that sweet package deal starts to turn sour. Each day ... the Lunch and the Dinner were at places ... places that would make those Asian mom & pop places (ya know ... the ones that say "Oriental Express) ... taste like gourmet meals. We complain to the tour guide ... they say "it will be better next time" or ... "really? you don't like the food? It's authentic Chinese cuisine". Bull Crap! Each day we say to ourselves ... it will be better next time. But each time ... each meal (other than the breakfast in the hotel ) ... the food was terrible. What a way to make a trip bad ...

The Andy Travel & Tours agency is definitely a great recommendation for your business and personal…read moretraveling inquiries. Tracy is excellent in booking flights at appropriate rates and goes the extra mile to make sure the flight schedule is convenient for her clients. She can also help you apply for an international visa if you're planning on traveling out of the country. In response to the negative review below, understand that the agency is responsible for providing traveling service and booking tours. What happens during the tour is out of the agency's hands. I've been traveling several times a year thanks to Andy Travel and I'll definitely be coming back for more!

My family and I recently returned from a wonderful trip to Italy. Early in the planning process I…read morereached out to Erin. After discussing what we wanted out of our trip, she put together recommendations and options for us to choose from for a successful trip. Erin does all the research for you. Flights, hotels, trains and small guided tours, all arranged by Erin. We visited Venice, Florence and Rome. All beautiful! Erin works with your wants and needs and then puts together a flawless trip. She is professional ( Erin never disappointed me), kind and most importantly patient. I highly recommend Erin for all of your travel needs!

Grand Journeys doesn't just book cruises!!! We have recently retired and have used Erin to assist…read moreus with flights and hotel reservations. She is knowledgeable and professional and her designation as a Virtuoso agency affords us great rates and "add ons" not readily available via online agencies. We recently spent some time in Washington DC and Williamsburg and her hotel suggestions were spot on. She provides great service and has assisted us when we could not print boarding passes overseas. I wouldn't think of going anywhere else!

Great travel company. They helped my daughter with some travel plans last month and did a fine job…read more They are located in a little strip mall at the corner of Evergreen St. In Point Loma and have been in business for 39 years. Not bad. According to their website, Acacia Travel has "400 years combined travel experience and (they have) collectively traveled to over 200 countries." If you call Acacia, they offer a "complimentary consultation appointment." Also, they seem to do a lot of business travel arrangements and overseas trips. For those in need of some aid in making travel and touring arrangements, Acacia is the way to go. Not everyone can get on the computer and find the cheapest airfare or the best hotel to stay at. The pros here know their way around these things and appear to be very good with details. Particularly if you are making plans to take complicated trips, or go to multiple destinations or go abroad with multiple generations in tow. 5 YELP STARS for some great travel expertise.

If you have to use a travel agency forget this place. Especially their agent Joe Baptista. He…read moreclaims to be an expert on Portugal but that was proven to be BS when we arrived at the dump he booked us into in Lisbon. We had friends in Lisbon who warned us that the Hotel Mundial was not in a good neighborhood and sadly in need of renovation, but when we told this the Mr. Baptista he shrugged it off and said that our friends didn't know anything. What a fool he is! And what fools we were to trust him! Our friends are very well known people in Portugal who had a reception for us when we arrived with the Naval Attache, the ambassador, and the President's wife attending. They forgot more about Lisbon and Portutgal than this agent knows. We should have listened to them and made him book a different hotel. The shower didn't work and they never fixed it. The tub was full of rust. The complimentary breakfast was all but inedible and the free WiFi was a lie. The hotel staff was extremely rude and the only good thing they did was warn us not to go out in the neighborhood at night. Mr. Baptista booked us on a flight with a one hour connection in Philadelphia, which is a nightmare of an airport. Our flight ran 15 minutes late and we missed our connection to Portugal. Any decent agent should know that one hour is never enough, but when confronted with this he assured us it was fine. It would take more time and space than I am willing to spend to tell you of the screw-ups by this agent. Needless to say his reputation amongst the Portuguese community in San Diego will be severely questioned as two of our group are Portuguese and have already told many of their friends to avoid him at all costs.

This is the second year we have used Sea Breeze Travel for our European family vacation. Jeni…read morecontinues to impress! She take every detail into account, making sure all family members needs are not just met but exceeded. Painless itinerary that is easy to follow, and wonderful insight of every place we want to visit. Not to mention Jeni is available and assists during your trip if anything comes up, to following up afterward to make sure everything worked the way it's supposed to. She knows my family, knows what we like...down time versus on the move, types of tours/food....on and on. We cannot recommend Jeni enough and already planning next summers trip. Grateful we found Jeni and Sea Breeze Travel.

If you need hotel reservations for a large group, couples vacation or for travel sports…read moretournaments, look no further than San Diego Concierge! Timely results with impossible to beat rates! All the research is done for you, had a particular hotel in mind, you will get the reason why or why not to stay there. Having trouble with hotels in this post COVID19 time we live in? San Diego Concierge will weed out the bad service from the good for you! This concierge goes above and beyond! Trust me when I say this is my one phone call for hotel reservations!

Can't say enough about the service I received booking a block of rooms for a friends birthday…read moreparty. I don't know how he did it but Michael Hall not only got us the rooms we needed at a GREAT rate he did it in the heart of Gaslamp on a busy convention weekend. Seriously within a couple of hours we had our reservation confirmed. I will definitely use them again.

Last year Nancy help me plan an amazing European vacay for my daughter and I. This year she…read moreplanned an outstanding trip to India! I can not say enough good things about her. She really knows her stuff. Besides that, she is lovely to work with, answers all my questions and is extremely detailed with itinerary's. I would never plan another big trip without her help. That's saying a lot from me, because I'm very picky!

Five full stars. We love love love our travel agent Aimee! Aimee has helped us plan multiple trips…read morenow that range from full-service where every last detail is thought of and planned to less managed trips where you just need hotels and a few tours and book everything else on your own and she shines in every way. On our full-service trips to Scandinavia and Japan, she took care of every detail from when we got off the plane with a private driver taking you to our first hotel, dinner reservations, private sushi classes, food tours, cultural heritage site tours, transfers between cities and hotels, to when we left our last hotel and go home (in style of course!). We have been privileged to have unique experiences such as riding a bike through Copenhagen with a private chef with a kitchen-bike, to learning how to make sushi with a sushi chef, to private city tours of Stockholm, Kayaking in the Lulea River in Sweden, taking a rigid inflatable speedboat to a Fjord in the Norwegian arctic circle, and touring the most beautiful temples and shrines of Japan with a private guide who can share details and educate you on the history and the culture that you could not find on your own. Travel agents make money when they book you things, but Aimee is never pushy with booking something every single day, and gives you time to decompress and discover on your own if you so choose. (If you want to do something planned every day you definitely can!) While our experiences are not the cheapest (The Four Seasons is always so expensive!) , our vacation time is limited, and we appreciate how we get a full experience of a city / country / culture and make the best use of that one resource that none of us have unlimited amounts of -- time. We also feel like even though the expense is high that we are getting decent value for our hard-earned money. We were with a different travel agency previously who we felt like did not provide as much value for our money and are happy we switched to Avant Garde. When a snag happens on a trip, like the plane delay that got us to Copenhagen 3.5 hours late last summer, Aimee or someone on her team from SD or Denmark jump into action and make sure that we reconnect with the trip and get back on track as soon as possible. We have declined some of her choices for hotels and had her book a hotel that we heard about or read about, and she has never given us any trouble or made us feel like she was pushing us to have to stay at any property that was more advantageous for her business. Her focus is to design a trip that YOU want to take, and we really, really feel like she is in our best interest all of the time. We've also booked less-managed trips with Aimee, where she helps us with hotels and maybe a couple of things in cities we understand and know. A memorable trip we took last year was when we went to Paris and Madrid to see Taylor Swift. We didn't want or need (or necessarily have the budget for) a full-service trip with action-packed private tours but she was happy to book our hotels, provide recommendations on what to do, and let us book other things on our own. From what I understand, Aimee has a team of professionals that work with her who help coordinate and plan and cater to many price points, but she specifically specializes in high-end travel with unique experiences. I love the fact that she always does a post-trip call (our previous high-end travel agent didn't do this) and wants to know what we loved (almost everything) and what can be improved (a few things) and feel like she really cares about your experience and uses the feedback to help us plan our next fabulous vacation and to avoid pitfalls that prior clients maybe have experienced. We are already dreaming of our next trip (with Aimee's help, of course!) and would highly recommend her for anybody who wants a customized, high-end experience (with prices to match!) that provide a good value for money spent.

Jennifer at Avant-Garde Travel was so helpful in planning my trip to Paris. My sister and I had a…read moregreat time. We had so many "bucket List" things to see and do and she was able to fit all of them into the time we had. Jennifer found us 2 great boutique hotels to stay in in Paris before and after the Disneyland part of our trip. She also arranged the day tours to see the sites of Paris. I was so happy to discover she was also in my home town and I was able to meet her in person. She set me up with their Travel App and the What's App that made following the itinerary and communicating in Paris so easy. I will definitely ask her to help me with my next vacation. Jennifer P