About Paul Cunningham
Paul Cunningham’s favorite charity is Simon’s Kitchen. When the summer crowds are gone from Seaside, Simon’s Kitchen serves thousands of free hot meals to those who might otherwise go hungry. Paul is a volunteer at Simon’s Kitchen where he helps to serve meals and clean up after the meal has been served. We servered over 13,000 meals this past winter.
Paul is not your ordinary travel agent. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY and a former Army Airborne Ranger and helicopter pilot. He also has a Master of Science degree in Business Administration from Boston University. After retiring from IBM, and a lot of soul searching and praying, Paul started Seaside Park Travel as a way to employ his talents in serving others.
Paul has traveled extensively for both business and leisure. He has taken many cruises and he lived in Germany for more than two years in the 1970’s. He is an Alaska Certified Expert, having spent many weeks in Alaska visiting his son, daughter-in-law and only granddaughter. Paul also has visited many Caribbean Islands on cruises or visiting friends in the USVI. So our expertise is primarily in North and Central America, the Caribbean and Western Europe. We are a member of several travel agent organizations and work with some outstanding suppliers to extend our expertise beyond those geographies. If we are unable to give you the guidance and support you need, we will find someone with the necessary capabilities. Your satisfaction and repeat business is critical to achieving our goal of supporting worthy charities.
“It is very satisfying helping people plan a great vacation. But the best part of my career is writing the checks to charity”, says Paul.
Welcome to America’s Charitable Travel Agency™
Seaside Park Travel is America’s Charitable Travel Agency!
Why book directly with a hotel company, tour company, cruise line or one of those big on line agencies when you can get great service and send a donation to your favorite charity? We give your charity up to 50% of our commissions, in your name, for every vacation, tour or cruise you book. The big websites and travel companies don’t do that! Feeling good, doing good! That’s our motto!
Our founder and booking agent, Paul Cunningham, is a Certified Travel Professional! Less than one percent of agents hold this designation
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Seaside Park Travel is an independent travel agency affiliated with Coral Sands Travel and the Network of Entrepreneurs Selling Travel. Because of these affiliations, we can offer our customers great pricing, specials and advice. Our agency offers cruises, vacations and tours with particular emphasis on North America, Central America, the Caribbean and Western Europe. Paul Cunningham is the founder and owner of Seaside Park Travel. You can count on him to assist you in your trip planning and to be there when you need him.
America’s Charitable Travel Agency™ gives you a way to support your favorite charity. When you book your travel through our agency, we make a donation of up to 50% of our travel commission to the charity you designate, and you get the recognition. If you book your travel with one of the big online agencies or directly with a cruise line or other travel supplier, you are missing an opportunity to help your charity. Unlike Seaside Park Travel, those companies return little or nothing to help our communities. Plus we provide the personal service you don’t get online and can offer you options that an individual travel provider might not offer.
Seaside Park Travel relies on the charities, schools and churches that it supports for publicity. This reduces our advertising expense and enables us to give half the revenue to charity. In effect, we are establishing 50/50 revenue partnerships with charities, but we do virtually all of the work and incur all the expenses of running a travel agency. If a client designates a charity that does not wish to promote our agency, we still donate 30% of our revenue to them.
Our normal office hours are 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern Time from Monday through Friday. Saturday hours are 9:00 AM until 11:00 AM Eastern Time. We also check our email at really odd hours when not “officially working”. Email us anytime and you might get an answer.
Our company was founded on the principle that individuals, groups and businesses can give back to their communities by supporting charitable and non-profit organizations. Let’s help our local charities deliver the vital services they provide.