Services

🗨️ Complimentary Consultation

At Magical Trips, your journey begins with a complimentary consultation, a personalized conversation where we learn about your travel preferences, priorities, budget, and wish list. This is your opportunity to share your vision for your vacation and our opportunity to determine how we can best assist you.

By engaging in a consultation, you are formally asking us to begin working on your behalf as your trusted Travel Advisor. This includes research, applying our professional expertise, and preparing thoughtful vacation options tailored to your needs.

💡 How We’re Compensated

For many vacations, there is no additional fee for our planning services. In most cases, we are compensated by travel suppliers after you travel, and those commissions are typically already built into the pricing whether you book online, directly with the supplier, or through a Travel Advisor.

Choosing to book through Magical Trips means you receive professional guidance, personalized support, industry expertise, and added value throughout the planning process, often at no additional cost.

💳 Professional Planning & Service Fees

Certain vacations, requests, or service situations may require additional professional planning or administrative fees. Any applicable fees will always be discussed before work begins or bookings are confirmed.

🗂️ Consulting & Research Fees: Starting at $150 + tax

Typically our complimentary consultation includes up to three custom vacation options for most standard travel requests. However, more complex or time-intensive travel planning may require a Consulting & Research Fee.

Examples may include:

• Multi-destination itineraries
• Large group or multi-generational travel
• Customized luxury or adventure travel
• Extensive revisions or specialized research requests

These fees compensate advisors for the significant time, research, expertise, and itinerary planning involved and are non-refundable once work has commenced.

✈️ Air Ticketing Fees: Starting at $50 + tax per person

Flight bookings require significant time, monitoring, coordination, and ongoing support while typically providing little or no supplier compensation.

Air Ticketing Fees may include assistance with:

• Researching and comparing flight options
• Booking and managing air reservations
• Seating and baggage coordination
• Schedule changes and disruption support
• Itinerary management and flight guidance

Please note that if we are asked to assist with flights booked independently or directly with an airline, this fee still applies.

💳 Multiple Payment & Administrative Fees

There is typically no fee for processing your initial deposit or final payment. In many situations, automatic payment schedules can also be arranged at no additional charge when set up during the booking process.

However, customized payment arrangements, multiple manual payments, or additional administrative requests may require an additional service fee depending on the complexity of the request.

🔁 Client Shopping Fee: $100 + tax

While most Canadian travel professionals have access to similar suppliers and pricing, requesting quotes from multiple advisors for the same trip can create unnecessary duplication of work, impact supplier inventory, and artificially affect pricing or availability.

To help protect the value of our advisors’ time and expertise, a Client Shopping Fee may apply in situations where multiple advisors are knowingly asked to work on the same travel request simultaneously.

If more than one Magical Trips Team member is asked to work on the same request without disclosure, the fee may be applied by each advisor involved.

Should you ultimately choose to book with us, your advisor may choose to apply this fee toward your final vacation balance.

❌ Cancellation Fee:  $150 + tax

Due to the increased administrative workload associated with cancellations and post-pandemic travel disruptions, a Cancellation Fee may apply in the event a client cancels their booking.

This fee applies:

• Per room for cruise bookings
• Per booking for other travel arrangements

This fee helps compensate advisors for the significant time already invested in planning, booking management, supplier communication, documentation, and cancellation processing. Supplier cancellation penalties and fees may still apply separately.

🤝 Our Commitment to You

We are committed to transparency, professionalism, fairness, and exceptional client service. Any applicable fees will always be clearly communicated before work begins or bookings are confirmed.

If you have questions about our services, planning process, or potential fees, your Travel Counsellor will be happy to review everything with you during your complimentary consultation.