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Travel Agency in Colorado Springs, Colorado: Vacation Packages, Tours and Cruises
Thistle Crossing is an independent travel agency in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Every trip in the catalog is filed by one thing: how often you have to pack.
Ten trips, filed by how often you pack
A week is not a week. Seven nights in one room and seven nights in seven rooms are different holidays, cost different money, and suit different people, and almost nobody is asked which they want before the deposit is taken.
So that is the first question here, and the catalog is built on the answer. Four rhythms: you unpack once, you unpack twice, you find a new bed most nights, or the bed travels with you and you never carry a bag at all.
- One hotelOne room for the whole trip. The car or the train does the moving and you do not.3 trips, from $1,940 per person
- Two hotelsTwo rooms across the trip and one move between them, timed and priced on the page.3 trips, from $2,460 per person
- TouringA different bed most nights. The most ground covered, and the most hours spent moving.2 trips, from $2,120 per person
- The bed travelsOne cabin or one berth. You unpack on the first evening and never again.2 trips, from $2,890 per person
The mark on each is a shape, not a color. It starts as a square and loses more of its corner the more often you have to pack.
A seat, before any of the beds
The catalog below starts at the bed and works outward, because that is the part almost nobody is asked about. A flight is the other half of the same trip and it works the other way round: it is fixed, it is dated, and it is the one piece here that is worth pricing before anything else is settled.
Look up a flight yourself
Every trip on this site is filed by nights: how many beds it puts you in, and how often you pack. A flight is the one thing here that puts you in no bed at all, which is why it is also the one thing on these pages you can settle without speaking to anybody.
The button hands you to a booking company that is not this one, answering on a subdomain of this address. Fares come back live from their systems, the seat is held by them, and the card is theirs to take. Nowhere in this catalog is there a field that would accept one. Their conditions are the ones that bind the ticket, so read those rather than these. Should you go ahead, this desk is paid out of the commission already inside their own margin, and your price is the same either way, because it is set before anybody knows which website you arrived from. What the button sends, in full.
The whole catalog
One hotel · 7 nightsUmbria vacation packageone hill town hotel, a rental car for four daysfrom $1,940 per person
One hotel · 7 nightsPuglia vacation packageone converted farmhouse inland, a rental car for six daysfrom $2,180 per person
One hotel · 7 nightsNewfoundland vacation packageone harbor guesthouse room, a rental car for seven days, three guided coastal walksfrom $2,760 per person
Two hotels · 9 nightsGeorgia vacation packageone capital hotel, one village guest house, and a car with driver for four daysfrom $2,460 per person
Two hotels · 10 nightsTaiwan vacation packageone city hotel and one coastal hotel, ten nights, an express train between themfrom $3,280 per person
Two hotels · 10 nightsthe Chilean lakes vacation packagetwo lakeside rooms, a hire car for ten days, and the ferries that link themfrom $3,860 per person
Touring · 8 nightsTransylvania vacation packageone rental car for nine days, eight guesthouse rooms on a driving loopfrom $2,120 per person
Touring · 10 nightsRajasthan vacation packageone car and a driver, five towns, a different room most nightsfrom $2,590 per person
The bed travels · 7 nightsthe Alps by sleeper vacation packagea circuit of night trains with day stops between them, two hotel stays, no carfrom $2,890 per person
The bed travels · 8 nightsthe Elbe vacation packageone cabin on a small river ship, eight nights, no second bedfrom $3,240 per person
What comes back when you ask
- A proposal in writing, with the company named, the dates exact and the whole figure per person
- Every bed counted, in order, with the nights at each
- The longest move in the trip, timed rather than guessed
- What the figure covers and a blunt list of what it does not
- The rules the supplier actually enforces, dug out of their own small print
- One person on it from the first question until you are home
What this agency does, and what it charges
- The work
- Reading somebody else's terms properly, finding the parts that will bite, and saying out loud when the trip you asked for is the wrong shape for you
- Your bill
- Nothing. No page on this site carries a charge from this company
- Where the money comes from
- A share of the supplier's own margin, paid after you travel
- Who bills you
- Each supplier, directly, in the name that shows on your statement
- What we hold
- None of it. This website has no field that would take a payment
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The company
- Registered as
- Thistle Crossing LLC
- Registered with
- the Colorado Secretary of State
- Office
- 2 North Nevada Avenue, Suite 620, Colorado Springs, CO 80903
- Telephone
- +1 (719) 473-6182
- Requests
- Taken by the form above at any hour
- Writing
- beds@thistlecrossing.com