two mailboxes, one telephone, and what each one is actually for
How to reach a dog friendly travel agent in Bloomington
There are three ways in and they land in different places. Reach a dog friendly travel agent in Bloomington by telephone for a question, or by mail when you want a figure written down.
Trips on this site start at $1,180 per person and run to $3,120.
Nothing here counts you and nothing follows you off the page. One word can be stored, and only the word yes, so this slip stops coming back. The whole of what that means.
Three ways in, and which one to pick
The two mailboxes exist because they behave differently. The desk works through requests in order and a figure takes two to four working days, because each one is a real conversation with a property before a number goes on paper. The second box does not wait in that line. If you are standing in a parking lot at eight in the evening with a booking that does not match your confirmation, you should not be behind six people asking about September.
You can reach a dog friendly travel agent in Bloomington at the street address as well. The office is at 5601 Green Valley Drive, Suite 240, Bloomington, MN 55437, The form takes a request at any hour of the day or night.. It is a working office and not a storefront, so mail sent there is read, but a message to alongside@travelpetadventures.com moves faster every single time.
- +1 (952) 897-4126
- Spoken questions. Good for the ones that are hard to type: how much of a week your dog actually gets, what the drive looks like, whether a place suits a big dog or a nervous one. Nothing is booked on a call.
- alongside@travelpetadventures.com
- The desk. Send this one when you want a figure. Availability, a written quote, a hold on dates, a change to something already filed. Everything that ends in a number arrives here.
- underfoot@travelpetadventures.com
- Problems, and only problems. Something on your paperwork is wrong, a property has moved its dates, you are mid trip and the arrangement is not what the file says. Nobody triages this box against a queue of sales questions.
What makes a first message useful
Three things, and none of them are hard.
Dates, or the shape of them. An exact week is best. A month with a note that you can move either end is nearly as good. Nothing is worse to price than an open request, because the same cabin can be two hundred dollars apart across a season line, and a quote with no dates on it is a guess we would rather not send you.
How many people, and how many dogs. Both numbers matter and one is not a rounding error on the other. Two people and one dog and two people and three dogs are different requests at almost every property on this site, and the second one narrows the eleven trips down quickly. If your dog is large, say so in the same sentence. Size changes what is available more often than anything else you could tell us.
Which of the three answers you want. Every trip here is filed by how far the dog actually gets to come, and the file is public. All-of-it means nothing on the week shuts the dog out. Almost-all-of-it means one or two items are closed and they are named before you pay for anything. Part-of-it means whole days are closed, usually the city days, and those carry the lowest figures on the site. Tell us which one you are after and half the catalog falls away in one line. If you are not sure yet, say that instead, and we will send back two options rather than one.
Two things you will never be asked for
Card details. Not on the telephone, not by mail, not in a form on this site. The office charges you nothing at all. We are paid a commission by the property after you have traveled, which means there is no point in the process where money moves from you to us. If a message signed with our name puts a card number to you, it did not originate at this office and you should send it to underfoot@travelpetadventures.com.
Anything about your dog's health. No records, no history, no medical questions of any kind, and none of it belongs in a message to us. We book vacations; we do not assess whether an animal should be on one. If a property has a requirement of that sort, we will tell you the requirement exists and what it is, and the rest is a conversation with your own veterinarian, which is where it belongs and where we have no standing at all. Same for anything you might need arranged for the animal on a day it cannot come along. That is yours to organize, and we do not do it. See what belongs with your veterinarian for the plain version of that line.
We also do not sell insurance, we do not deal with visas or passports, and we do not operate a single property, road or vehicle named anywhere on this site. What we do is find the arrangement, put it in writing, and stand behind the written version.
What happens after you write
There are no opening hours printed on this site and the omission is deliberate. Hours tell you when somebody is sitting in a room; they say nothing about when your answer arrives, which is the only part you care about. So the answer is written down instead. Anything sent through the form gets read before that working day is out. Putting a number to it takes two to four working days, because somebody has to write to a property, describe your dog, and wait for that property to answer. When one of them drags, you are told which one and how long.
Whatever arrives gets read before that working day ends. That is a read, not an answer: a short question usually comes back the same day, and a figure takes two to four working days because it is not sitting in a system waiting to be looked up. Cancellation terms are set by the property, never by us, and they are written into your file before you agree to anything. cancellation terms sets out how that works. the short answers covers most of what comes in through the desk before anyone writes at all.