We all love our annual vacation but there are those that never go too far from home and then you find the adventurous types that will travel the world. No matter what your interest is with travel, there are always travel sites to help you out. In fact, many people have turned to planning entire vacations on a website. Gone are the days when travel agents were popular and sought after as websites have popped up everywhere and promise all of their customer’s extraordinary savings.

I know it is the norm now but I am not comfortable planning my once a year vacation like this. I’m old-fashioned and still want to sit down with a travel agent, letting them make my plans for me and I always feel like I will get better results than on a website. There always seems to be much more flexibility with a travel agent and you are able to ask for more details and change your mind with much more ease. I have never found it easy dealing with travel sites especially when I want to have a discussion with someone before I make a decision on something; plus on the very rare occasion you manage to get through to a support line, they are not as helpful as someone sitting in front of you.

If you do speak to someone, they may just tell you what you want to hear which is easy and what are the chances you will be able to find them? It is because of the number of things that can go wrong I still prefer to use my local travel agent even if it does take a little more time and there may be more to pay. Although I do know someone who waits for the last minute cancellations to come up on travel sites and books them every time, saving a good deal of money. She is good at this and saves hundreds of dollars of the proper price and has always had a good vacation.

They may say something just to appease you and it will not hold true in the end. It is this fear of the problems that can occur and if they do happen it is too late that prevents me from being more trusting in the way that I trust my travel agent. I have a good friend who would never use a travel agent as she books all her last minute vacations using travel sites because she can save a packet of money. Admittedly, she has save a small fortune this way as she will just look at the sites and be patient until the right vacation comes up at the right price.

I’m not one for last minute travel although I suppose I could be if my schedule was more flexible but my job requires me to ask for vacation months in advance. Other savings to be made using travel sites are the costs of other day trips or tours that are not part of the main vacation. Knowing a little about what you want and information about the location you want to travel too can be useful so I still research as much of this as I can online before I pay my travel agent a visit. Perhaps it isn’t fair because I know that it will be my travel agent that will hear my complaints if my vacation doesn’t go according to plan.