We hit another snag along
the journey of “trip planning with a travel agent” and it was just one more
reason why I don’t think we will be using a travel agent again in the future. Thankfully, we got the issue resolved.
Last week, our travel agent
called regarding booking our rail pass from Basel, Switzerland to Munich,
Germany. This is the only thing we have
left to finalize and the only part of our trip that the cost could change. We were hoping for a decrease in price from
the estimate she gave us, which was based on last year prices. Of course it is our luck that the price increased by another $100 total and that
made the cost of two one-way 1st class tickets almost $1,000. We wanted to experience Europe by train but
we weren’t sure we wanted to experience that badly!
We set up a call with our travel
agent and in the meantime spent the week researching the costs online but just
couldn’t figure out why her quote was so high.
I reached out to another travel agent I know and called Viking to confirm
that if we decided not to take the train that they would fly us over at no
extra cost since we booked our air travel through them. We were sad to think we would have to cut the
train ride but that was just too much money to spend.
I’ve been thinking all
along that our issues are mainly communication related. Regardless, she did a search for us again and
saw the same prices we were seeing.
Apparently last week her vendor searches came back at twice the price as
this week. I guess it is a good thing we
questioned it! We ended up locking in
the price of two tickets for $420. Her
vendor even came down below the online price we saw for our inconvenience. So that was nice. We also got a price adjustment on our
original itinerary through the travel agency so we almost have our trip paid
off. That is so awesome!
We have a little over four
months until we will experience Europe for the very first time. I am so excited.
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