America's 50 Finest "Bucket Shops"!
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, December, 1999 by Vincent Sorel
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Once they were called "bucket shops" and likened to those shady operators of stock market swindles occupying cheap offices with buckets for seats. Though what they did was entirely legal, they were looked on with suspicion.
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Today they've become so respectable that people refer to them in loftier terms. They're called "consolidators" or "brokers," and what they really are is discounters. They cut the cost of your air transportation, cruise, hotel stay, or car rental, and only the chump fails to use them. Are they reputable? Solid citizens? Frankly, they seem to go out of business no more often than standard travel firms do. In fact, in recent years, they've been prospering, and probably doing better than some of the more traditional names in travel. While we can't guarantee the continued longevity of any of them, we feel that our 50 choices are the cream of the crop. ...
