Helpful Booking Instructions and Links...

WHO TO CALL To Check Rates and Make Reservations...
(Ask Debby for account IDs and passwords...Nexion Agents can set up your own passwords with individual Vendors)

Book all Carnival Cruises directly through our GRTS account, Online Using Your Personal ID and password
assigned...Or by Phone (Registered under our phone number: 210-496-0004 for Carnival, under our CLIA #: 00376283, if
needed.)
Book all Princess Cruises by phone under our agency number: 210-410-2580...which automatically goes though Nexion.
Book all Other Cruises And All Vacation Packages (through VaxVacation) through Nexion online or use Their IATA
and phone numbers highlighted in box to left, once you have signed up with them and completed the online training!
Book all GALVESTON Hotels, Airport Shuttles & Pre-paid Parking at: www.cruisegalveston.com.
Airlines do NOT offer commission on domestic/US flights, so if you book those for clients, it will be as a courtesy (no
commission) or you can recommend they book that themselves.  www.expedia.com usually offers the best airfare rates.  
AIR & HOTEL COMBINED Packages DO pay commission, through our Expedia account or Nexion's VaxVacations.
Also see Booking links below.

CLICK HERE FOR A FULL PAGE OF TRAVEL LINKS THAT YOU OR YOUR CUSTOMERS CAN USE TO
BOOK DIRECTLY WITH TRAVEL VENDORS BY CLICKING ON THE LINK SHOWN... These links are Fully
Commissionable to us, WHEN WE FILE THE SALE ONLINE WITH OA!
Using these LINKS will link the sale to our account, so that we receive the commisison...as long as the customer (Or We Agents) click in to their
website using the links from our "Best-Travel-Links" page. The vendors track the sale/source even if customer buys online directly with vendor later,
if booked within 30-90 Days after they first use the link, depending on travel supplier. You'll find our Commission Rates somewhat hidden at the
end of each Link, in case you want to refer a customer to use this page directly (for example, "10P.hotel" means that vendor pays agency 10%
Commission on hotel bookings, and "$8.air@bookg" means they pay a flat $8 commission on Airfare at the time of booking).  
NOTE That most of these links are registered thru Outside Agents, and we must register all OA sales made through their
account/phone number online at their website in order to receive our commissions.

You can also book travel directly using the following links...
We have accounts or affiliate agreements with these vendors (ask Debby for our IDs and passwords):

www.EXPEDIA.com...We get 2-10% commission when logging in and booking through our account. You can book
Hotels (2-10% commission, depending on the hotel), rental cars (6%), air/vacation combo packages (3% for 1-2
nights or 5% for 3+ nights), and tours and attractions here (10% commission).  Expedia typically has the LOWEST
AVAILABLE RATES. (Expedia pays NO Commission on air-only and cruise bookings made through this site, so book air
through Funjet, when possible, and cruises directly with the cruise line or thru OA.)  ASK DEBBY TO SET UP AN EXPEDIA
ACCOUNT FOR YOU and then go to: http://access.expedia.com/Home/TravelAgentOverview.  Note that our
commisison is Higher when you book through this Expedia account, rather than using the Expedia Link on our "Best-
Travel-Links" page mentioned above.  (Prices are the same either way, as on expedia's own website.)

www.vaxvacationaccess.com (through OA)... We get 13% commisison. ..Ask Debby for new password.

www.cheapcaribbean.com (thru OA; we keep 4% commission on all hotel and vacation packages (air & hotel) booked with
them, not including tax and service fees, when logged in with our agency password.)  All activities and add-ons earn same
commission.  Problems?...Email: travelagents@cheapcaribbean.com.  You can also book with them by phone, but we only get
2% total commission on reservations made by phone (open 7 days a week from 4AM to 11pm CST: 1-800-869-2312.  Select
option 1 then 3).  A ten dollar ($10) commission processing fee will be deducted from the agent's commission on all bookings.  
Note that CheapCaribbean.com does not mail the commission until approx. 60 days after travel is completed.  These bookings
are made through Outside Agents...So please notify Debby or file the sale directly online with Outside Agents. CLICK HERE
FOR REVISION/CANCELLATION POLICY.

www.cruisegalveston.com ..This is the Galveston Chamber of Commerce's website exclusively for travel agents, which offers
GREAT discounted prices on Galveston hotels (lower than you'll typically find on other online sites), as well as airport
transfers and discount cruise parking.  We make about 5-10% commission on bookings made with them (depending on
the vendor).  Note that many Galveston hotels offer free parking during a cruise and a shuttle to/from the cruise
terminal, so guests can save the cruise parking charges!  Login with our greatratestravelservice@yahoo.com email and ask
Debby for our password.

Enterprise Rental Car National Reservation Center: Call 800-424-1282 or 800-325-8007.  Our Commission is 10% on all
Phoned Reservations…Use our own account/CLIA number: 000376283.

Or Book ANYTHING through the NEXION site...Cost is $15/mo for each agent if you would like to use
this great booking tool!  Also tracks all your commissions, offers loads of training, provides itinerary and invoices
you can mail clients, and lots more benefits!

SPECIAL NOTES...
HOW TO INTERPRET THE CODES ON OUR "CRUISE SPECIALS" WEBPAGES (For GROUP Space Held):
Note that our cruise specials are always changing, as we add new groups to our website, delete those with expired options; and
update payment deadlines and prices.  Agents starting new groups themselves should always book extra rooms for future
sales, when possible, and send Debby an email with the new group number so I can add it to our Cruise Specials web page.  
To Read the Coded Information at the bottom of each listing on our "Cruise Specials" page (including group
numbers & payment deadlines): A group listing ending in: "9QM494/50p0720/200p0924/d112013.s7.4pt"  means that
group #9QM494 has $50pp due 07/20, and then $200pp  due by 9/24, and the final payment deadline is 11/20.  Bookings
may also indicate the number of rooms sold already (in this example, s7 means seven rooms have been sold so far, and 4pt
means the group has 4 points to assign by final payment deadline, available for bookings with a minimum of 5 rooms booked).

WHEN RECEIVING OVERPAYMENTS ON A CRUISE GROUP ...IF we were able to get rates reduced or for any reason we are
collecting more than is actually due on a booking, be sure to Ask the cruise line first what the full balance due is, and then if the
final payment will overpay the booking, put the overage through Nexion's merchant account.

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