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Conference vaxcat::friends

Title:Welcome to Friends!
Moderator:POWDML::VENTURA
Created:Mon Mar 09 1992
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:437
Total number of notes:35174

329.0. "Single Travel Agency" by NETRIX::"[email protected]" (Valerie) Fri Apr 21 1995 21:33

Does anyone know of a travel agency that matches up people that want to
travel to a certain location.

I am hoping to go to the Baltics and Scandinavia next summer- and the
rates are so much cheaper if you room with someone.

Valerie
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329.1good luck!POOKY::OROURKESLEEP...I read about that onceFri Apr 21 1995 21:3710
    
    Hi Valerie,
    
    I don't know of a 'travel agent' that specializes in this but some of
    the tour companies that I've seen brochures from do attempt to offer
    this service.  In fact some of them said that if you sign up for a
    match and they don't find you one, you get to have the room to yourself
    at the cheaper double-occupancy rate!
    
    /jen
329.2NETCAD::WOODFORDI<--TheInfoWentDataWay-->IFri Apr 21 1995 22:099
    
    
    Club Med specializes in 'singles' vacations.  They do not 
    pair you up with someone specific, but you're apt to meet
    alot of great people.
    
    
    Terrie
    
329.3Club Med..... hmmmmLJSRV1::LAMBRECHTThe Spirit of BavariaFri Apr 21 1995 22:438
That would be an idea for my screwed summer vacation plans. With not having
received the Green Card yet I can't go to Germany as planned. Maybe
Club Med is a neat replacement.

Thanks for the idea, Terrie

;)
Martina
329.4Cruises...singleworldKAMALA::DREYERSoon to be cruising!Fri Apr 21 1995 23:3010
	Alot of cruise lines also accomodate singles by trying to match them
up with a compatible single.  They look for age, sex, smoking preference
and ??  If they don't find anyone, you don't have to pay the supplement.
Sounds lkie a decent way to go!

	As I recall, there used to be an agency called "singleworld" that 
specialized in trips for singles.  Ask in the singles notefile too, they may
have more info!

	Lola
329.5TOOK::MORRISONBob M. LKG1-3/A11 226-7570Sun Apr 23 1995 22:2512
  Just last month I looked into a Colorado tour (which I have not decided if I
will go on) that offers roommate matching for singles. The thing that scares
me about this deal is that you have no way of meeting your roommate in advance.
And if you meet your roommate on the first day of the trip and realize you 
don't get along with him/her, you are S.O.L.
  There are only 2-3 match criteria on the forms, such as gender and (non-)
smoking, that the agencies use for matching.
  I would be interested in a tour roommate matching service that allows the
prospective roommates to meet each other before the travel arrangements are
finalized. Is there such a thing? I also would be interested in singles tours
within the U.S. that are cheap. I am not interested in cruises, and Club Med
is way too expensive for me.
329.6Club med, le bonheur dont on ne veut pas...ANNECY::BALAS_BSomeone, somewhere, somehow, and me...Mon Apr 24 1995 10:155
	Valerie, why do U need an agency to travel? Alone, U can go anywhere U
want. This way U'll be able to make some unwaited hollydays like I did last
year. This WE I've writen a poetrytalking about this. It will be specially for
U, for Martina and all the friends who dream to go away.
		Triing to make people read what he writes carefully,	BenJ.