Thanks for resurrecting this thread as it has been an interesting read! Plan to transfer my Alaska 2024 cruise to a TA after I do some more research on our next cruise in February. The February cruise was booked through a large agency and the TA has not been too impressive. I usually do all the bookings for hotels, shuttles, airfare, excursions, etc but was interested if he had some deals on hotels, shuttles, etc but found him hard to reach so I ended up booking myself for better deals than he eventually quoted.