I honestly never thought I would use or need a “travel agent” to help with making travel arrangements, on my own I would have been the guy that refuses to ask for directions when lost. However, while in the beginning stages of planning a business trip my employee mentioned her friend Alicia had a travel business and could help us out. The trip was for myself, a photographer and several employees with several destinations in Solingen, Germany and Thiers, France; places more than a little bit off the normal travel routes.
I was so happy to have hired Alicia, right off the bat she saved us around $500 in airfare and was able to best plot out our travel routes in order to keep us from wasting time with unnecessary travel days. Alicia was super easy to work with planning our trip, she was both able to save me a gigantic amount of time and keep us in the loop for important decisions about the trip. I never felt that she took over the planning in a way that was like being on a pre-planned guided tour. She booked our lodgings as well in Solingen, Lyon and Thiers finding us places near our work appointments. We were all super happy with what she found for us, and Alicia had great recommendations for us for restaurants and places to do some vintage shopping as well.
Alicia helped us organize our trip into online documents with all the maps and links imbedded for us all as well as printed versions – super helpful to have all in one spot.
I was so happy with Orion Travel that I used Alicia’s help again for a short follow up trip to Santa Fe that was needed to wrap up the project I was working on.
Overall I would highly recommend Orion travel, Alicia saved us lots of time and money and was a real pleasure to work with. I never doubted that she was on it and we could rely on her for help if anything went askew. A+ all the way!
– Josh Donald, San Francisco, CA