"Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> But you should be leary of old-school travel agents who seem to make most
of
> their money bilking Japanese sheep on group tours.

That's one of my many problems. All I know is that I was very pissed when
they called me up and told me that I wasn't going to get the cheap ticket I
had partially paid for. What should I have done? Gone down there and do my
crazed hairy gaigin performance? Maybe calmly tell them that they had taken
my money for a particular ticket, thus they should  give me a better ticket
at the same price?