Ema
Quite right. online is fine for, piossbly, the simple short haulpoint to point stuff, but anything like this, one is much better off with a travel agent. There are a number of reasons:1. A travel agent can (usually) hold a reservation maybe only for a few hours, though generally about a day. This gives you a chance to look at the booking closely, in the certain knowledge that it won't disappear in the meanwhile and the fare will stay, as well. This gives you a chance to check the booking generally, the name spelling and that your reservation takes you where you want to be.2. All small print and notes are relevant, it's just that some bits are more relevant than others. This sounds a bit Orwellian, but it's true. A travel agent will be able to pick out the relevant bits, look you in the eyes and make sure you have grasped them. Websites give you long spiels and let you work out what is really important. 3. Agents will tell you what you are in for. Many sites, especially nowadays, have a rather tenuous grasp on reality when it comes to the practicality of air travel including airlines own sites. A good agent will tell you what's best value for what you want to do, it may not be the cheapest but what is best value and what is cheapest are very, very different.4. Agents know the, erm wrinkles . These do not always apply in every case, but there are some things an agent knows how to do a lot better than any website will tell you. Airline websites, especially, will, on balance, only tell you about their airline and in many long haul trip situations, that is not what is always best.5. With an agent (high street type), there is someone you know and can shout at. Hopefully you won't need to but most agents take the view that their job is to fix your problem not to pass it on to someone else.6. There is a big myth that an agent will charge more. Well, you will get a fee (what do you think online agents live off, by the way?) but it is not massive and given the points mentioned above, perhaps worthwhile. Cheap or discounted fares are available to most agents and online agent fares are pretty much the same as high street agent fares. If you shop around, the price will generally be about the same . If it's coming to a31000, then you may find a31010 or a3990 but you are not suddenly going to find a miraculous website that will sell exactly the same thing for a3200. Remember, there are a finite number of aircraft going to a destination and each has a finite number of seats and a finite number of cheap seats. If and aeroplane has 250 seats and has 250 humans booked on it it's full.Next time, pop in! We are here to help and we don't bite .
Ema Quite right. online is fine for, piossbly, the simple short haulpoint to point stuff, but anything like this, one is much better off with a travel agent. There are a number of reasons:1. A travel agent can (usually) hold a reservation maybe only for a few hours, though generally about a day. This gives you a chance to look at the booking closely, in the certain knowledge that it won't disappear in the meanwhile and the fare will stay, as well. This gives you a chance to check the booking generally, the name spelling and that your reservation takes you where you want to be.2. All small print and notes are relevant, it's just that some bits are more relevant than others. This sounds a bit Orwellian, but it's true. A travel agent will be able to pick out the relevant bits, look you in the eyes and make sure you have grasped them. Websites give you long spiels and let you work out what is really important. 3. Agents will tell you what you are in for. Many sites, especially nowadays, have a rather tenuous grasp on reality when it comes to the practicality of air travel including airlines own sites. A good agent will tell you what's best value for what you want to do, it may not be the cheapest but what is best value and what is cheapest are very, very different.4. Agents know the, erm wrinkles . These do not always apply in every case, but there are some things an agent knows how to do a lot better than any website will tell you. Airline websites, especially, will, on balance, only tell you about their airline and in many long haul trip situations, that is not what is always best.5. With an agent (high street type), there is someone you know and can shout at. Hopefully you won't need to but most agents take the view that their job is to fix your problem not to pass it on to someone else.6. There is a big myth that an agent will charge more. Well, you will get a fee (what do you think online agents live off, by the way?) but it is not massive and given the points mentioned above, perhaps worthwhile. Cheap or discounted fares are available to most agents and online agent fares are pretty much the same as high street agent fares. If you shop around, the price will generally be about the same . If it's coming to a31000, then you may find a31010 or a3990 but you are not suddenly going to find a miraculous website that will sell exactly the same thing for a3200. Remember, there are a finite number of aircraft going to a destination and each has a finite number of seats and a finite number of cheap seats. If and aeroplane has 250 seats and has 250 humans booked on it it's full.Next time, pop in! We are here to help and we don't bite .