A bare room with a picture rail and one plain chair standing near the middle.

three questions people ask about this company

About This Travel Agent in Colorado Springs, Colorado

An independent travel agent in Colorado Springs, Colorado: one office, one telephone, and a catalog built on a question the trade does not ask. It operates nothing and it never has.

Ask what a trip costs +1 (719) 473-6182

Who is behind it

Registered as: Thistle Crossing LLC
Registered with: the Colorado Secretary of State
Working from: 2 North Nevada Avenue, Suite 620, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, in El Paso County
Spoken to on: +1 (719) 473-6182
Sent a request: Using the form on any page, whenever it suits you
Asked what something costs: beds@thistlecrossing.com
A trip already agreed, and complaints: onward@thistlecrossing.com
The work: Assembling trips and handing them to whoever runs them
The fee for that work: There is not one

Thistle Crossing LLC is registered in Colorado as a limited liability company. No other party publishes any part of this site.

Why the catalog is filed by rhythm

Because the question that decides whether a holiday works is asked last, if at all. Budget gets asked first. Dates get asked second. How many times you will have to pack, and what that does to the price, to the bag and to the hours, does not get asked at all.

It is not a small thing. Seven nights in one room and seven nights in seven rooms cost differently, cover different ground, and suit different people, and the difference between them is not a preference. It is arithmetic, and it is on every page here before anything else is.

Each trip answers the same seven questions about that rhythm, in the same order, including the last one, which names the people it does not suit. That row loses bookings. It stays.

What this desk turns down

Ruling on whether somewhere is safe: Nobody in this office is competent to sell you that judgement
Border paperwork: Permits and entry rules belong to your nationality and your route, and no opinion on them is offered here
Cover for the trip: Not sold, not arranged, not recommended, and no provider named
Reviews: None exist that are honest, so the section does not exist either. That changes on the day it can
Naming the operating firm on this website: It is named on your proposal instead, which is the only document where knowing it helps you
Handling your money: No field on this site would take it and none is being built

Said plainly

Nothing on this site is run by the company that sells it. Thistle Crossing puts trips together and hands them to the airlines, hotels, ships, rail companies and tour operators whose job it is to carry them out. Not one bed, one seat, one hull or one guide belongs to this company. The firm doing the carrying is named on your written proposal, works to rules it wrote itself, and bills you without this desk touching the money.

Which rules a few things out, and they are worth stating rather than implying. Nobody here flies anything, sails anything or lets a room. No department of any government has appointed, approved or endorsed this firm, and no page claims otherwise. Cover for your trip is somebody else's business and so is the paperwork that gets you over a border. There is no way to pay through these pages and no card number is ever stored.