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Do people still use travel agencies? I've never really understood the benefit of it aside from the convenience of not needing to look stuff up yourself
Just now I realized that it was a travel agency, if at least it was an online buy, but makes zero sense if you bought it from a travel agency.
Some travel agencies accept currencies that the airlines don't.
I've had horrible issues with payments getting denied when trying to buy flights abroad before, so now I buy through a travel agent so I can pay with Bitcoin. No more false-positive fraud detectors blocking my purchase, since Bitcoin is permissionless.
Oh I never thought about travel agencies accepting Bitcoin, that's pretty interesting
My wife and I used a Travel Agent for our honeymoon. We had a lot going on and it was just something we could take off our plate. It was honestly a pretty easy experience, though I probably wouldn't use it in most circumstances.