why an agency would print the odds against itself
About This Travel Agent in Cleveland, Ohio
An independent travel agent in Cleveland, Ohio that prints the weather odds against every trip it sells, which is either a strange way to run an agency or the only honest one.
Why an agency would do this
Because the complaints in this trade are nearly all the same complaint.
Somebody paid a great deal of money to see a thing that only happens in certain conditions, the conditions did not arrive, and nobody had told them beforehand how likely that was. They did not feel unlucky. They felt misled, and on the evidence in front of them they were right to.
The information exists. Rain days by month, wind above the threshold that stops a boat, cloud cover at the hour of an eclipse, the week the ice usually goes out of a bay. It is public, it is free, and almost nobody in this trade puts it in front of a customer, because it costs bookings.
It does cost bookings. It also means that when the sky wins, the conversation afterwards is short, and it is the only version of this job worth doing.
What that means in practice
Every trip page carries five rows before it carries a price: what conditions can cancel, how often that happens in the months the trip runs, what you do instead, whether any money comes back, and who should not book it. The fourth row usually says nothing comes back, because usually nothing does.
The catalog is then filed by exposure rather than by continent, so the first choice you make is how much risk you can live with rather than which ocean you would like to look at.
Where it sits
- Registered as
- Travelmonte LLC
- Registered with
- the Ohio Secretary of State
- Office
- 20445 Emerald Parkway, Suite 350, Cleveland, OH 44135, in Cuyahoga County
- Telephone
- +1 (216) 736-5183
- Requests
- The form takes them round the clock
- Figures and questions
- skies@travelmonte.com
- Something already agreed, and complaints
- afterwards@travelmonte.com
The company behind these pages is Travelmonte LLC, a limited liability company on file in Ohio. No second party publishes any part of this site.
The standing is an agent's and nothing wider. It carries nobody, it houses nobody, it guides nobody on a mountain and it takes nobody out on the water. Every one of those is done by a company with its own name, its own license where a license is required, and its own terms attached whole to your proposal. This office finds the trip, reads that small print, and hands the reservation over.
What this company refuses
Whether a destination is safe is not a call this desk makes, and no one sitting in it holds the standing to make it. Border paperwork stays with you and your nationality. Cover for a trip is neither sold nor arranged nor recommended, and that refusal holds hardest on the pages where the weather risk is worst, because a page about what can go wrong is exactly where an agency would be tempted to sell you a policy. There are no reviews here because none are real. And there is no way to pay: no field on this site would take money, and none is planned.