My Travel Innovations LLC
About My Travel Innovations
A small independent travel agency at 950 W Bannock St in Boise, Idaho. We book trips with suppliers on behalf of travelers. We are not an airline, a hotel, a cruise line or a tour operator, and we are not affiliated with any of them.
What this company is
My Travel Innovations LLC is an Idaho limited liability company filed with the Idaho Secretary of State and formed on February 11, 2021. Its office is at 950 W Bannock St, Boise, ID 83702, in Ada County.
It is a travel agency. It plans trips and books them with the companies that operate them. That is the whole of the business.
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~ Legal entity | My Travel Innovations LLC ~ Formed | February 11, 2021, in Idaho ~ Office | 950 W Bannock St, Boise, ID 83702 ~ Telephone | +1 (208) 331-7462 ~ Written requests | plans@mytravelinnovations.com ~ Existing bookings and complaints | care@mytravelinnovations.com ~ Hours | Monday to Friday, 9 am to 6 pm, and Saturday, 10 am to 2 pm, Mountain Time
What this company is not
This matters more than the usual about page material, so it is here rather than in the footer.
- Not an airline, hotel, cruise line or tour operator. We do not own an aircraft, a room, a cabin or a coach, and we do not operate any part of any trip.
- Not affiliated with any of them. No supplier owns any part of this business, and no supplier's name, logo or branding appears on this site.
- Not an official or authorized representative of anybody. Nobody has appointed us to speak for them.
- Not a licensed or bonded travel seller. Idaho does not license travel agencies and this company holds no bond. No license number and no bond number appears anywhere on this site, because there is none to print.
- Not registered as a seller of travel. California, Florida, Hawaii and Washington operate such registers. This company is on none of them, which is why it takes no payment and holds no traveler money. You pay the supplier directly.
- Not accredited by any industry body, and no association logo appears here.
- Not a call center. One office, one telephone number, posted hours, and no line answered at three in the morning.
Why the site is written like this
Most travel agency sites are written to make you feel confident. This one is written so you can check.
Every claim on it has a page behind it that says what stands the claim up. The claims we cannot stand behind are named too, on the front page and below, along with who would have to stand behind them instead. It is a slower way to write a website and it is the only version we could defend line by line.
| Claim | On this site | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A free quote, with no obligation | Stated | Stated. What stands behind it is the form on request a quote, whose first line says that asking costs nothing and commits nobody. No traveler pays this office to be quoted. |
| No booking fee charged by this agency | Stated | Stated, and it is narrow on purpose: this agency adds no fee of its own to what a supplier charges. It says nothing about what the supplier charges, which is on pricing in full. |
| A line answered at any hour | Not stated | The office answers Mon to Fri 9 am to 6 pm, Sat 10 am to 2 pm Mountain. Claiming any hour would take somebody sitting here at three in the morning, and nobody does. |
| Licensed and bonded | Not stated | Idaho does not license travel agencies and this company holds no bond. No license number and no bond number appears anywhere on this site. Printing one would be borrowing somebody else's. |
| Registered seller of travel | Not stated | California, Florida, Hawaii and Washington register sellers of travel, and this company is registered in none of them. It therefore takes no payment, holds no client money, and prints no registration number. |
| Industry accreditation | Not stated | This company holds no industry accreditation and displays no association logo. A badge without the membership behind it is the same thing as an invented number. |
| A price match | Not stated | Matching a price means promising to beat a market this office does not control. What it does instead is show what a figure is made of, on pricing, so it can be compared honestly. |
| Flexible cancellation | Not stated | Cancellation terms belong to the supplier holding the booking, and they differ by trip. Every proposal states them in writing before anything is committed. The policy. |
| Offices across the country | Not stated | One office, in Boise. It works with travelers anywhere, and that is a different sentence from having offices anywhere. |
Reviews
There are none on this site.
This office has not been open long enough to have collected real ones, and inventing them, buying them or displaying a rating nobody awarded is the most common dishonesty in this trade. When there are real ones from real travelers who agree to be quoted, they will appear here with their consent. Until then this section stays empty rather than being filled.
The work itself
Most of it is unglamorous: reading fare rules, checking whether a hotel described as being in a city is actually in that city, working out whether two rooms genuinely adjoin, and writing the document that goes with you.
The interesting part is the small number of moments where knowing something saves a trip. Which side of the ship the coast is on. That a same day connection to a sailing is a risk not worth taking. That September in the Caribbean is cheap for a reason. Those are on the package pages rather than kept back for a phone call.