Avion Travel | The Travel Hotline

Avion Travel, in Toronto, has owned, operated and taken reservations for "The Travel Hotline" for over 25 years. The Travel Hotline is a multi-line, touch tone telephone information system that can save you up to 75% off the cost of your next vacation.

"Welcome to the main menu for Avion Travels
famous new and improved travel hotline"

Press 4001
Intro - I interupt Avion Travels famous new and improved Travel Hotline with our first travel update of the day...and now stay tuned for trip # one.

Trip #1 - Lists new touch tone features (these features only work with the hotline, not the library)

Press 2 - Connect to Avion reservation centre or the main menu
Press 3 - Skip backwards trip to trip
Press 4 - Replay trip
Press 5 - Skip forward trip to trip
Press 6 - Pause 20 seconds and/or touch any key to resume play
Press 7 - Fast forward 10 seconds
Press 8 - Rewind by 10 seconds

Trips from #2 to trip #14 feature vacations with all tour operators.

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Press 4002 - Travel Information Library
Avion Travel under the banner of "The Travel Hotline" advertises weekly in the travel section of the Toronto Star, the Toronto Sun and other newspapers around Ontario. The prices in the ad are submitted to the newspapers 24 to 48 hours in advance of printing. That is the nature of newspaper deadlines; however in many cases the prices may be reduced further by the time the paper is printed and circulated. By calling (416) 265-7500 and choosing menu item 4002 - you can enter the four digit code and listen to the latest price reduction, availability and also a description of the resort.

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Press 4003 - Connection to Avion Travel Reservation Centre
A: Connecting from the main menu - Call (416) 265-7500 and press 4003B: Connecting from the Travel Hotline - Call (416) 265-7500 and press 4001. While listening to the Hotline you must press # 2 key to be connected to Avion's reservation centre. After pressing the # 2 key you return to a main menu that allows you to choose #4003 to be connected to Avion's reservation centre.C: Connecting from the Travel Information Library - Call (416) 265-7500 and press 4002. While listening to the Travel Info Library you can press 4003 at any time and be connected to Avion's reservation centre.

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Press 4004 - You have pressed 4004; stay tuned for information on how to use the Travel Hotline. The Travel Hotline is operated by Avion Travel in Toronto. Avion Travel has operated and has taken reservations for the Travel Hotline for over 24 years. The Travel Hotline is updated daily, sometimes up to 3 times a day. The hotline starts off with an introductin, followed by 14 trip numbers. The introduction tells you of the latest updates and which trip numbers have been updated. Each trip may contain up to 15 vacations from the major tour operators with savings of up to 75% off brochure prices. Now listen to the following touch-tone command that allows you to navigate along Travel Hotline. Please note the following features only work in the Travel Hotline, not in the Travel Library.

Please note that you can use the # 5 key endlessly to travel forward trip to trip and return back to the introduction of the Travel Hotline. However, when you use the # 3 key to travel backwards from trip to trip it unfortunately stops at trip # 1.Now here are some tips that might save you hundreds of dollars and up to 75% off the cost of your next vacation.

Between 5am and 7am daily, that's 7 days a week, 365 days a year, information is downloaded from computers connected to the major tour operators and cruise lines such as Sunquest, Alba, Signature, World of Vacations, Air Transat, Conquest, Air Canada Vacations, Carnival Cruises, Royal Caribbean, Sandals and many more. This information ends up in the recording studio of the Travel Hotline. We try to have this information updated on the Travel Hotline by 8am daily. Thousands of Avion customers call the Hotline each morning to hear the latest discounts and our reservation department is busy from 8am taking bookings for some of these limited discounted specials. Please note there is some truth to the saying "If you snooze you lose."

As mentioned, Avion Travel makes reservations for all vacations on the Travel Hotline, Avion Travel has two offices in Toronto with over 40 very experienced travel counselors, many with over 20 years experience and that's not just 20 years in the travel business, that's 20 years working at Avion Travel. Please feel free to visit "Contact Us" for phone numbers and addresses of our two locations.

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Press 4005 - You have pressed 4005; stay tuned for information on how to use the Avion Travel Information Library. Avion Travel, under the banner of "The Travel Hotline" advertises in the travel sections of the Saturday Toronto Star and the Wednesday Toronto Sun as well as several other newspapers throughout Ontario. The travel hotline advertisements feature individual boxes with vacations from the major tour operators. At the bottom of each there is a telephone symbol followed by a four-digit code. This four-digit code will provide you with the latest pricing for this vacation and also a description of the resort.

In Toronto call (416) 265-7500 or outside Toronto call 1-888-265-7577. You will be greeted with the main menu for the Travel Hotline. Choose 4002 to be connected the Travel Information Library, and then enter the four-digit code for the information you desire. Please note that all four-digit codes end with an odd number, for example: if a box in the ad features a one week vacation to the Nassau Beach Hotel with Sunquest, then the four-digit code at the bottom will be 2059. After you connect to the Travel Information Library, you press 2059 and listen to the latest prices or at any time you can press the next even number, which happens to be 2060 and listen to a description of the Nassau Beach Hotel.

Unfortunately none of the touch-tone features of the main Travel Hotline such as fast forward, backwards or pause is available on the library side. However, you can make as many four-digit code choices as you like and can return to the main menu or be connected to Avions reservation centre at any time by pressing 4003.