In the past 3 days where I was working under a travel agency as a flier/brochure girl, I managed to learn a thing or two about travel agencies and their deals. Whether it was through a customer or other sales people themselves, the insights they gave were definitely something to think about:
- Better Free and Easy or Land Tour than take a full package guided tour. Usually, the agencies jack up the air prices for tours. If it was 500 dollars, they'd do a mark up or in simpler terms, increase the price to 560 or 600 so that they can earn the profit. So at the end of the day, it is better to buy your own air ticket.
- Never fully trust a 1 for 1 package deal. Usually, it would be like this: '1 for 1 deal! Fr. $889'
See that Fr.? In case you don't know, that's FROM. Which means that it does not include surcharges and taxes that can be up to an additional two hundred or so. Then sometimes there would be additional charges for the other person too since you need to charge individuals for their airport taxes. By the end of the day, you're actually paying enough for two people =_= Maybe more since that dang travel agency needs to earn some profit no? - Cheap Tours. Let me explain what i mean by this. I was looking at another travel agency for their Korean Land Tour (buy own air ticket and sometimes accommodation as well) and they had this one tour at the Namsan Tower at SGD 60. Slowly skimming the attractions they wanted to showcase to the tourists, I realised that everything was free except lunch which would be paid for. Every other thing was absolutely FREE. So basically, I would be paying 60 freaking dollars for lunch which would have costed less than 10 considering the exchange rate. I might as well just throw my money into the bin! So one thing to take note of, make sure you pay for a tour that doesn't wholly include just tours that are FOC. Because if it is, you might as well go there yourself, plus you would still be holding on to your money.
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