Why Use a Travel/Cruise Agent?

The best way to insure that you are getting the best deal is to use the services of an experienced, knowledgeable cruise professional. It may be tempting to go online and simply book your cruise directly with the cruise line, but you will not get the best  price. Often, Cruise Agencies will have  promotions and specials available to them which cruise lines do not offer. Cruise line personnel who do bookings are given a script and the majority of them do not know anything about cruising.  They are hired for their skills to work in a call center and are only concerned with moving numbers.

A Professional Cruise Agent can tell you which of the MANY cabins on the NCL Epic is the perfect one for your upcoming trip!

Using a Professional Cruise Agent gives you an advantage in the event that a problem may arise. The agent can act on your behalf as your advocate to resolve any issues. Your travel agent may do hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars in business each year with a cruise line, so they will have more leverage than you will on your own. In today’s age of experts and specialization, there is a group of companies who specialize in selling only cruises.  These are the people with whom you want to deal with and here is why:

• A professional Cruise Agent working at a company which specializes in cruises does only that.  In today's complex world trying to be a “jack of all trades” does not work.  Look around and you will see that to be an expert in a specific area is the only way to be effective and provide the correct information.

• The cruise industry has become very complex and the ships extremely large.  Even the “sales” and management teams which work for a specific cruise company acknowledge that the new ships are complex. Thus you want to deal with a person who has cruised, cruised on the ship you are planning to cruise on, and does not operate out of the basement or bedroom in their home.  That person is not a professional, that is someone who does cruises as a hobby!