Independent, small, and paid by the other side
Who keeps this office, and why an independent DC travel agency reserves rather than sells
Northbound Notes Bookings LLC is a small booking office in Washington. It is owned by nobody in the travel business, sells the arrangements of companies that run trips on the ground, and is paid by those companies rather than by you.
Reserve this with the officeNothing is charged here. The form stays open at any hour and a person writes back inside one working day.
What independent means here, exactly
It means this office is not owned by, part of, or contracted exclusively to any airline, hotel group, railway, cruise line, tour operator or reservation website, and holds no authority to speak for any of them. It places reservations with operating companies and is paid a commission by them after you travel. That is the whole commercial relationship, and it is stated on every page of this site rather than buried in terms.
One thing this office is not, and it needs saying
It publishes nothing. The name is a name, and this office prints no periodical, sells no subscription and issues no edition of anything. It has nothing to do with money markets and moves no cargo. If you arrived here expecting any of those, this is a booking office and the catalogue is thirteen segments long.
Why the catalogue is small
Because every segment on it is one this office can describe in specifics: a named operating company, a figure checked this season, and a page written from what is actually there rather than from a brochure. Six lines is what that standard produces. A larger catalogue would mean pages about places known only in outline, and the difference shows in the writing to anyone reading closely.
The building, and what is in it
In Washington, District of Columbia, at the address printed at the foot of every page. It is a working office with a telephone that reaches a person during working hours. Nothing about this office is virtual, and the address is not a mailbox.
Reserve one segment, or a whole line
This form is open at any hour, and whatever reaches it is read by a person who answers inside one working day. Nothing you send commits you, and no figure is charged at this end at any point.