I have not done much traveling since I was a kid and my parents booked and paid for me (miss you parental dependency), so when my husband and I decided it was time to start planning a month long trip to the U.S. at the end of the year, I discovered that I'm actually terrified of booking holidays!
Initially we went to Flight Centre just to get some magazines to figure out where we wanted to see and we were going to book everything ourselves online, but we were informed by one of the lovely travel agents that my work receives a 10% discount for all accommodation through them and we decided it was worth changing our plans. We also discovered how much less stressful it was for someone else to go hunting for the good deals and areas of unknown cities.
Our travel agent Shelley has since spent weeks off and on, answering stupid questions and getting better rates on hotels than I could find online, and has been a great constant in our lives. We have finally finished booking our trip and I honestly don't know how we would have done it without Shelley. Ok so I may have some dependency issues to work on, but all I can say is we felt well looked after and our trip is exactly what we wanted. read more