Ready for a vacation? Don't have time to plan it on your own? Or maybe you'll be traveling to a destination that you know little about. A good travel agent might be able to help, and our ratings will help you find one.

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Sample Subscriber Comments/Reviews About Travel Agencies

CHECKBOOK provides subscriber comments on their experiences with the firms they use. Please remember that individual subscriber comments are informal. Subscriber comments may give you insight into the types of features and problems that exist in a service field, but are not the best basis for selecting or rejecting a specific firm. To assess the quality of a firm's performance, we recommend that you give more weight to the percentages of favorable ratings. Those percentages are generally based on much larger numbers of consumers' ratings (the number of consumer ratings is noted above).

As You Can See Below, Some Travel Agencies Get High Praise from Their Customers. Some Others Don't. So Choose Carefully.
Here Are a Few Samples of the Thousands of Comments CHECKBOOK Has Collected on Hundreds of Different Travel Agencies.

• Subscriber from LANSING, IL wrote Another Agent: Laura Lukasik is great!.......
• Subscriber from CHICAGO HTS, IL wrote Another Agent: Extremely helpful.......
• Subscriber from HAWTHORN WDS, IL wrote Another Agent: great corporate agency.......
• Subscriber from DOWNERS GROVE, IL wrote Another Agent: Did a family get-together this summer at Disney and couldn't have been more pleased with..........
• Subscriber from DOWNERS GROVE, IL wrote Another Agent: They were excellent in helping me plan my honeymoon to Hawaii. Extremely knowledgable........
• Subscriber from BROOKFIELD, IL wrote Another Agent: Great to deal with my trip went real smooth!.......
• Subscriber from EVERGREEN PK, IL wrote Another Agent: We had booked a trip to Alaska on the internet, but the air transportation was..........
• Subscriber from LINCOLNWOOD, IL wrote Another Agent: Sherri at the Cruise sho is fabulous.......
• Subscriber from DOWNERS GROVE`, IL wrote Another Agent: Bonnie Green always goes above and beyond to hep make your trip spectacular........
• Subscriber from VILLA PARK, IL wrote Another Agent: everything on the trip went well. All on time, everything accounted for........
• Subscriber from DES PLAINES, IL wrote Another Agent: Fancy-Free Holidays has a wonderful staff! Their tours are first class and their tour directors..........
• Subscriber from LAKE FOREST, IL wrote Another Agent: J. KRENZIEN IS VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE.......