Where is the best place for a late deal holiday?

Question

Where is the best place for a late deal holiday?

Answer 1

http://www.lastminute.com for packages or for flights only or try the airline direct.  http://www.charterflights.co.uk does some really cheap last minute stuff, like £99 to India and back, then get your own accommodation from somewhere like http://www.ownersdirect.co.uk/ - much better than using a high street travel agent, which costs more and just send you to the awful complexes of accommodation all the other tourists go to.  Don't you want something a little more of the beaten track than Thomas Cook!!  Or maybe you want English pubs and fry-ups and a million other English tourists and reps on commission pestering you to go on organised tours like sheep.

Last summer I got flights direct with B.A. for £49 each return to Portugal, a 3 bed private villa in the hills away from all the other tourists for £200 for the week and a hire car so we could explore without having to go on some awful coach tour with other tourists for £100.  For 4 people that was £125 each and we had a wonderful time.  Could Thomas Cook get you that?  No - for maybe £300 they would send you to an apartment complex with a shared pool and some awful canteen-like restaurant serving British food with a shop selling buckets and spades.  Why oh why do people use travel agents, they are totally unnecessary!

Answer 2

I agree, stay away from the high street travel agents if you have but a smidgen of good taste and independence!!

Answer 3

Trailfinders are good for independent travel, but I agree try and do it independently, with a travel agent at last minute you just get one of those awful don't know where you're going until you get there jobs that put you in a place everybody else has complained about the been moved from.  Try going direct with the airlines for a cheap flight then searching accommodation sites that don't do packages, i.e. try Alistair Sawday or something - great site for bargains as well as luxury and very unique and away from the Thomas Cook tourists!  http://www.sawdays.co.uk/

Answer 4

Try looking on Expedia or Lastminute.

If you mean where to go - pretty much anywhere in the med is good.

Answer 5

I agree with Cardboard Cow, the people on here suggesting Thomas Cook probably work there!  Travel agents are a big con, they have convinced us they are necessary whereas in reality everything they offer we can arrange ourselves in very little time now with the internet, and for less cost, and we don't have to go with the crowd.

I used www.charterflights.co.uk last winter and got 2 flights to India (Goa) for less then £200 each, I then booked a guest house direct on the internet, which was an amazing villa with all hand carved furniture, 4 poster beds, a chef, driver, and meditation and reiki master, all on site, I mean really luxurious. and for about £25 each a night, so less than £400 each for a week in India in pure luxury - the equivalent money with a high street agent would have put me in a teeny studio apartment with larger louts next door.  It's too late for Goa now but if you are looking for a cheapie in winter try www.goadreams.com

Answer 6

try here Thomas Cook are good http://www.must-haves.co.uk/lifestyle_ho...

Answer 7

thomascook.com

or try your local travel agent =]

Answer 8

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