This Is the No. 1 Secret to Cheap Travel That Your Travel Agent Won’t Tell You

8. They bait you with cheap vacations

They’ll start low and try to upsell you. | scyther5/iStock/Getty Images

Travel agents reel you in with great deals, then switch them up, according to Travel Weekly. For example, one might advertise a holiday to Fiji for $669, but the resort you’d be staying at would be subpar. And you can bet the travel agent will tell you that the resort isn’t great — and try to upsell you.

“We then we get a nibble which is you walking into the store and sitting down and that’s when we tell you it’s not available and then we sell you a much more expensive package to a resort that pays top commission. That’s when you know you have landed a good catch,” said an agent to Travel Weekly.

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