Been to Mexico/Jamaica 7 times in the past 16 Years-
I have used a Travel Agent Every Time---
A. I'm Cheap-
B. I kind of like researching Travel- looking dates, searching flying on a Tuesday vs a Saturday, checking rates out of DM, KC, Omaha, searching the cheapest time to go (Fall is the cheapest)etc, etc
I will scour numerous sites over a numbers of weeks to find the best deal.
Each time I find a deal that I think "the travel agent can never match this good of a deal".......
They always DO. (almost makes me mad, that I can't beat them....
)
Sometimes they only save us $35-40 a person, or just simply get us cheaper Transportation; but a few times it has been a couple hundred bucks...
None the less, it has always been cheaper with my travel agent.
They are 7/7 for finding better rates, so I should stop trying (But, I still like searching the sites for fun!)