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Number One: A cruise agent works on your behalf, but the cruise lines pay them commission to handle the booking process on its behalf.

The cruise lines expect the booking agent to serve as the point of contact between them and you. this is great for the cruise lines. By dealing with professionals rather than millions upon millions of individual customers the cruise lines increase their own productivity.

Theres More.

Because of the travel planners desire to have your business, s/he is willing to do more, a lot more, than just the booking process.

Free enterprise and competition working for you.

If you are to have a successful cruise, what the agent does before, as well as after, you cruise is very, very important.

At the beginning, your cruise agent should do a profile of you. In other words, a good agent should gather lot of facts and information about you. After you return home, your agent should gather facts about the experiences you had.

It is the actions of the travel agent in providing assistance to you based on the facts and information gathered that are the real reasons for you to use their services.

A travel professional has many, many resources and contacts to assist you. Avoid the hassles. Allow someone else to lessen your burden.

You should not, however, expect an agent to provide you with services worth thousands of dollars if they only receive a hundred dollars in commissions.

this is overstating the facts to make a point.

A weekend trip or a heavily discounted trip does not make much commission. shore excursions and other added features help to increase commissions, but

your real value to a travel agent is that of a repeat customer.

A good agent in turn will provide the necessary extra, extra services to keep you as a customer. That is their real value to you.

Number two:

KNOWLEDGE of the product line is the second great reason to use a cruise agent.

The product line of course refer to the many cruise lines and ships that want your business. The product mix is always changing. However, a professional planner knows where and how to quickly acquire the necessary information.

Number three:

The third great reason to use a professional cruise agent is EXPERIENCE. It is through their own experience that they can truly prepare you to enjoy your experience.

The three elements of Free Services, Knowledge, and Experience are an unbeatable combination to provide you with a powerful cruise experience from the planning stage through your meeting after you return home.

You are in safe hands with a professional cruise agent.

Set your Sails, and have a fantastic time!

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Youre all wondering, how are wireless adapters working with the new microsoft Vista. There is no cut and paste answer for that because it all depends on the kind of wireless network you are using. Are you using Netgear or perhaps linksys. I will try to clarify as many different adapters as I can and see if I can find a quick fix for your adapter questions.

linksys Wireless adapter

If you use Lnksys and you are wondering if Vista will work with it, linksys has come out with a new driver that is compatible with Vista. If you would like to download it, just got to linksys.com. One you download these files, you can then go to your control panel to search for your driver and point to the download files.

Netgear driver problem

If you are a Netgear user, you will have some trouble with compatibility. microsoft offers a beta driver that you can download that is not affiliated with Netgear. You can download the driver at, http://netgear.com. Basically, beta means that the code is not successfully tested but it is a way for people to give feedback and allow changed to be made.

If you use Netgear, I recommend that you steer clear until everything is cleared so you can use Vista without any problems. This is really a pain to deal with so stick with XP until it is resolved.

wireless adapter battery Drain

One problem that people are also having with Vista is that the laptop batteries get drained quickly while connected to the internet. It has to do with the fact that many wireless connections do not have the ability to go into the power save mode that the microsoft Vista operating system allows for.

All in all, Vista has some problems with compatibility when it comes to some wireless adapters but there are fixes available. The only problem that I see that will require some consideration from people has to do with laptops. They have the double threat of having batteries that can overheat as well as connections that cannot be made.