A Travel Agent may not be the first port of call for the infrequent traveller that just wants to hop over to Cape Town for a week to visit friends. What with all the domestic airlines’ websites but a Google click away, it is easy enough to compare prices and make one’s own booking, instead of relying on a Travel Agent. However, when it comes to holiday packages and extended itineraries, the agency travel plans may turn out better than yours may.

In fact, for infrequent travellers or the elderly, the Travel Agent may take a lot of stress out of the travelling experience. Especially when travelling as a group to a common destination for a sightseeing vacation, a Travel Agent may prove invaluable. Their package deals are usually competitive and include travel, accommodation, meals and coach and train services.

The Travel Agent sells you a combination of products and they are experts at fitting these products together like a jigsaw puzzle. Firstly, they hook you up with an airline and put the lot of you on that flight to Timbuktu. Once you have arrived, they have the tour operator waiting with the coach to whisk you away to your hotel. The itinerary is already worked out and you are set on your way to enjoying an entire vacation with friends, without having to worry about accommodation, rental cars, road maps, getting lost, missing important tourist attractions or wondering where you will sleep tonight.

This kind of packaged group tours remain ever popular and they are available by the dozen from every Travel Agent in town. However, compare prices and look out for special offers, which come by frequently. If you simply do not feel like planning an entire vacation, you might be very happy with the packaged agency travel itinerary of your choice.