I would give this company... SPECIFICALLY ANN M.....a ZERO stars rating if I could. Ann was tasked with organizing a two week trip to Italy for my mother and I for my 30th birthday. Ann assured us we were staying in the TOP hotels available and spared no pennies for this trip. Upon leaving Florence and arriving in Sorrento, we were excited to stay in what Ann had claimed was the 'nicest hotel of our Italy trip, a 5 star hotel'. Well, the hotel may have gotten 5 stars, from a blind person 15 years ago. The hotel was old, dilapidated, and dirty. My mother cried for hours upon arriving, devastated that for the over $700/night we were paying to stay there, this is what we got? I did my best to speak with the hotel managers to correct the issues we were having, which were many, but the hotel staff was quite unaccommodating to the point where we had to find a new hotel. I told my mom to contact Ann who had set everything up, and Ann was even less helpful. Ann told us to wait it out and see what they could do, but we couldn't even get the hotel staff to talk to us, let alone rectify the problems we had. Ann was too busy with her own vacation to help us. Instead of helping us find a new hotel, she continued to tell us to 'wait' until they could figure something out. As more and more problems arose, my mother and I decided to find a new hotel. Upon arriving to the new hotel, the manager asked me "Why did you choose that hotel instead of the #13 hotel in the area?" That was a great question! The hotel had availability and was SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper and SIGNIFICANTLY nicer! We were not offered that hotel because Ann and Power Travel did not have an affiliation with them. After returning from the trip and asking Ann to get our money back from the hotel we didn't stay at, she told us to 'let her take care of it' and request that we 'don't do anything' and insisted we did NOT contact the credit card company to dispute the charge. God forbid we got our money back from the hotel, Ann would not have gotten paid!!! Ultimately, Ann came back and informed us, after weeks of dealing with this nonsense, that the hotel would not refund our money and we were out of luck - sorry. IF YOU BOOK WITH THIS COMPANY MAKE SURE YOU DO YOUR RESEARCH ON THE HOTELS THEY RECOMMEND. These people get kickbacks for referring their clients to their hotels. Ann gets paid from this hotel which is why she had no interest in getting our money back so that she could get paid. THEY ARE A TOURIST TRAP. Although other parts of our trip were great, we lost a large amount of money and dealt with more stress than I should have when spending a very special birthday with my mom. It nearly ruined our trip and I blame Ann and PowerTravel 100%. I recommend you look for another travel agency to work with and if you choose to give PowerTravel your business, make sure you do your research before you go, or else you will get stuck! We not only had to pay for the hotel we didn't stay at, but had to pay for the other hotel as well. BEWARE!!!!! ANN IS TERRIBLE! read more