SimSolTravel provides travel related consulting services.
Our main focus is applying our extensive experience from other professions to providing targeted travel information and travel consulting services.
We also have competitive online booking services for self-service oriented clients.
The result is a unique perspective on travel that goes beyond self-service travel booking sites or "full-service" travel agents.
Read our views on the
Future of Travel
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SimSolTravel Services to see what we offer.
SimSolTravel Services
Travel Consulting
The staff at SimSolTravel will happily answer your questions about travel.
We can help you plan a trip to a single destination like San Francisco or to tour a country like Germany.
We can talk about the advantages and disadvantages of using your timeshare or booking a hotel or reserving an individually owned apartment.
We use our frequent flyer miles for most of our major trips and we can share our tips and tricks with you.
We can give you ideas about starting the trip with a relaxing journey on a train or cruise ship instead of the traditional stressful airport "mad dash to get there" experience.
Thinking about a road trip in the car, and you enjoy craft beer?
We can help you plan it to pass by some interesting breweries as well as see the sights.
Just give us a call or send us an email.
If your questions are more involved we'll let you know and schedule an extended question and answer session.
Our Travel Consulting options are:
The Q&A option: if you would like to schedule an extended question and answer session.
We schedule in one-hour increments but we're flexible.
The Trip Planning option: if you would like us to help you with the actual planning of your trip, such as booking flights and hotels.
We'll tell you how many hours it will take at the start and stick with it.
The Trip Planning service includes a custom itinrary of all bookings, including self-bookings if you provide the information.
A SimSolTravel TravelDetailerTM can also be produced for your trip.
Please call or email us to discuss how much time will be required for your trip planning.
The Trip Payment: if you would like us to to make all of the payments instead of doing them yourself.
When we have completed a Trip Plan we will send you an invoice and itinrary and,
after you approve it, you use this option and enter the dollar amount of the invoice.
Why do we charge a fee?
We believe that it is important to provide quality travel advice.
That means travel advice that fits the clients' needs, not just what generates a commission.
See our views on the Future of Travel for more details.
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Custom Vacation Experiences
Don't let the travel to a destination be something to endure.
Make it part of the vacation experience with a SimSolTravel Custom Vacation Experience.
Talk to us about one of our SimSolTravel Excursions and see how getting there can be half of the fun!
We also have shorter SimSolTravel Getaways for those with limited time or who just want to try
it out.
Language Vacations
Have you ever thought about learning another language?
Get started with a SimSolTravel LanguTour™ Language Vacation.
Beginning language lessons are provided while traveling to an exotic destination where the language can be used in real life.
This classroom/immersion approach provides better retention and is a lot more fun!
Group Cruises
Planning a family reunion or looking for something for your club to do together?
A group cruise is the perfect thing because it allows everyone to interact when they want and enjoy other activities
when the group gets too intense.
By booking a cruise as a group you can enjoy many special events and amenities on board
(depending on the group size).
Let SimSolTravel help you organize a cruise that fits with your family's or organization's interests.
Self-Service Options:
Bookings
Our online travel portal provides self-service access for booking flights, hotels, cars, cruises and more.
This portal is provided through our association with InteleTravel.com,
who insure full security for your travel transactions.
Special fares and rates negotiated by InteleTravel are available only through
an InteleTravel Agent site:
Hotel Bookings
SimSolTravel is a Booking.com Affiliate Partner with access to hundreds of great hotels around the world:
Car Rentals
Even though our focus is on train travel and using public transportation, we realize the need to sometimes have your own wheels.
Our online self-service Car Rental site lets you search for a great price for a rental car.
This self-service booking site is provided through our association with ARC.
Special fares and rates negotiated by ARC are available only through an associated travel site:
Destination Activities
Sometimes you travel for a specific reason but find that you have some extra time at the destination.
Our online self-service Destination Activities site is the perfect way to find something to do to fill that time!
Regardless of the reason for the travel, be it leisure, vacation or business; check out our Destination Activities to see
what the destination has to offer.
You might find something fun that you would not have thought about doing!
This self-service booking site is provided through our association with ARC.
Special fares and rates negotiated by ARC are available only through an associated travel site:
Credentials
SimSolTravel is an ARC (Airlines Reporting Corporation) Verified Travel Consultant (VTC).
This allows us to work with many travel suppliers and provide our clients customized service
in addition to our self-service booking site.
Travel Information
Visit our Travel Information
site for pictures and information about areas where we specialize,
places we have visited and hotels we have enjoyed.
We also have behind-the-scenes pictures of many of the interesting breweries
and tap-houses that we have visited.
Be sure to look at our SimSolTravel Virtual Tours!
Please contact us if you are
interested in our unique travel
services or if you have travel questions.
Tim Norton
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The views expressed on this page are the opinions of the SimSolTravel staff and should not be considered factual.
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