Travel Planner Deborah Cross discusses how to navigate your trip planning during troubled waters

Travel Planner Deborah Cross discusses how to navigate your trip planning during troubled waters

Will question every case is different, but one of their conversations look like lately with your client thing majority my clients are facing cancellation to type the cancellations.

One that are occurring within the next 30 days and and then the second or those occurring within 90 days.

What the offers from the travel suppliers, be they cruiser land or more generous when they're canceling within 30 days.

If your 90 days out then typically you have to pay airfare can't relation the eyes.

Those fees are not waived within 30 days.

So when i'm telling my client is if you book 30 to 90 days out.

Just way to see what the offer is because they are and to be getting richer.

The closer i is your departure date with our travel travel agent with the travel advisor like yours now parties we need to this medication now on to see when the best time to make it vision as a witness or maximize it.

Someone maybe hasn't worked already with the travel agent advisor think that they can do is check if they if they're thinking of canceling call the supplier mail.

It is extremely long wait times to get to with specific suppliers.

I've had people report to me and i know have personally experienced waiting for eight hours to get through to somebody and let's say a particular crew on so you're just going to need to se aside time and make that call.

Instead of you having the travel agent do that for you and then determine what that particular travel supplier is offering you in terms of future traveler future cruise credits is the airline waving change fee.

You will have to to take your time to work with the supplier.

So it just takes some time, if you're persistent and you stay on top of it and you will work out to get the best possible value in return for your money.

Is there an answer right now about how our in advance.

We need to look at key underling or vacation.

If you have not booked okay let me give you some general information, and even if you have very good information that you should be on top.

I would say please check out our first travel.state.because it lists high country, whether or not travel to that country is recommended and right now the u state department is advising all us citizens to avoid all international travel at this time.

Even countries or cases have not been reported may restrict travel without notice within the united day.

There have been discussions by the airlines with the government as to whether or not us air travel will be shut down or not simply check 72 hours and then again 24 hours prior to your flight departure to make sure that you client is still taking off the other resource they should chec is cdc./coronavirus that provides travel health notices the pending on the situation an that destination now cope it not see its rapidly evolving situation and cdc guided is reviewed daily and updated frequently so right now when it comes to cruise travel.

Remembe, i discovered international travel.

They are recommending that travelers are tickly older adults, and people with any serious chronic medical condition for all cruise ship travel including river cruise ship travel worldwide.

Until that notice his lip.

We do not know when that notice would be lifted because, as again, the cdc says this is a rapidly evolving situation and there dating their dad on a daily base, and i wanted to leave this on a positive note, what about looking forward into the future is now a good time to look future travel.

If so, when would you say we can start booking that can we book transfer this fall are what we need to do.

I i am taking booking the same time i'm working through a lot of cancellation.

Most of my cloud would say 98% of my clients tha are looking right now looking for 2021.

We are saying this is not a cancellation.

This is the postponement and i are looking forward to taking this trip so the guy would say beginning of the poor booking beginning marc 2021 full work perfect.

And of course if any reason at all.

The conversation that we just had t encourage you to look with a local travel agent travel advisor like ms. debra because she can handle everything for you and help you navigate these tricky waters.

If the situation