how do people book holidays/mini-breaks

[david campbell]

normally i always just book as a package,but a few mates of mine have been booking trips with the flights and accomodation especially stag do's etc and said it was cheaper.
i've just been looking at 3 days for me and the mrs in paris and flying with ryanair and booking the hotel seperately it's about £160/180 for both of us with the flights at £22 returns,playing about with the dates i can even get the flights down to £10

 

[Dan]

I'm booking skiing, flights, accommodation, lift-passes, ski hire and transfers (a man in a van with a bench in the back lol) all separately and I've halved my costs!

I have a mate of a mate that goes all around europe for long weekends for like £30, flights and accommodation. He went new york a couple of months ago just to go the levis shop as he heard they sold levis for £20 a pair lol. Spent 10 days there for 300 booking everything last minute and separately! He also spent 300 on levis, sold half of them and made his money back.

On the flip side, got another mate who was messing around with the websites checking to see what she'd have to pay for various places and she booked loads of random flights and hotels until it withdrew all her money from her account and the page said "sorry this card has been declined" which is when she realised she was still logged in from a couple of months ago when we went Ibiza (this was last year now). Luckily she rang the place and they refunded the lot as she was booking things (well, was meant to just be looking at the total prices) for things months ahead so they didn't really mind refunding it.

So go steady! lol

Used to go with a lass who's aunt used to go on coach trips to geneva but found it cheaper to go with her and her two sons with empty cases to a sunny destination for a weekend and come back with their legal quota for backy and ****, and although they ran out quicker (they used to sell it) she'd be off again in another two weeks time. She used to pay for her and the lads ON THE DAY they wanted to go, and they got some mint deals. Nothing more than £70 for the three of them and they'd come back and make the £70 back within minutes of them being back and then have plenty of smokes to smoke/sell over the coming weeks too.

 

[SandyFloor]

I get the wife to do it. She's the holiday booking fairy. She even researches for friends as she loves doing it so much. She'll find the best deal for the best price and find anything on the resort/hotel there is to know. I have to say she's never got it wrong. Tell a lie.....she booked and paid with Goldtrail the morning of the afternoon they went bust but don't suppose that was her fault and it was covered by insurance.

The prices you're talking about I don't think you can do much better.What I would do ( if you haven't already) is to check out where to eat and drink as Paris is expensive if you don't know where to go.

 

[Dan]

I don't know how travel agents make it these days to be honest. Big chains are always empty when you walk past them, and their window "deals" are well overpriced! We have an independent travel agents locally too (you don't see many of them about these days!) and I tell you what, you're lucky if you see a person go in or out of there in a year. Lived in the area for years, driven past the place umpteen times a day some days and never seen the lady who runs it sit with an actual customer, ever. Don't know how she stands the rates on the building thinking about it.

 

[nybor62]

alpha rooms are good ive used them a few times for accomodation. or. on the beach .for cheap package hols

 

[doug boardley]

David, if you're going with Ryan - Air, make sure you have your check in details for outbound and return with you. We got stung for £40 each last year as we hadn't printed off our return check in details. Not just us either, I'd say there was at least 2 dozen other parties on our flight that it happened to as well.

 

[faithhealer]

Don't travel much myself but I would always say, pay by credit card for insurance purposes

 

[Dan]

Don't travel much myself but I would always say, pay by credit card for insurance purposes

He'll yeah, always!


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