Seeing as lastminute.com have recently announced they are making profits for the first time since their shares were floated on the stock market a couple of years ago, it seems like a good time to write a review.
I’ve been visiting the site for about three years now. When I first started ... Read review
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Advantages: Easy to navigate, variety of services, some good deals Disadvantages: Not always the cheapest, breaks listed are not always available at the price quoted, site can be frustratingly slow
Seeing as lastminute.com have recently announced they are making profits for the first time since their shares were floated on the stock market a couple of years ago, it seems like a good time to write a review.
I’ve been visiting the site for about three years now. When I first started using it, it was one of the only sites offering cut-price last minute holiday deals. Now they not only offer holidays, but flights, hotel rooms, restaurant ... ...good site to explore. Just visit the site, click on the categories on the left hand side of the screen and follow your nose. However, you might have to be patient as the site can be frustratingly slow at times.
Over the past couple of years, numerous other companies have emerged that also offer good deals on last minute bookings, many of which seem to undercut lastminute.com’s prices. However lastminute’s slogan is “the first place ... more
Seeing as lastminute.com have recently announced they are making profits for the first time since their shares were floated on the stock market a couple of years ago, it seems like a good time to write a review.
I’ve been visiting the site for about three years now. When I first started using it, it was one of the only sites offering cut-price last minute holiday deals. Now they not only offer holidays, but flights, hotel rooms, restaurant bookings, gifts and all manner of other things. It’s a good site to explore. Just visit the site, click on the categories on the left hand side of the screen and follow your nose. However, you might have to be patient as the site can be frustratingly slow at times.
Over the past couple of years, numerous other companies have emerged that also offer good deals on last minute bookings, many of which seem to undercut lastminute.com’s prices. However lastminute’s slogan is “the first place to look at the last minute” and that is still what I do.
I can’t comment on most of the service’s they offer as I’ve not used them. However, I have booked two weekend breaks through them and so I will share my experiences of these. From what I can gather, lastminute act as brokers for other agents when it comes to flogging holidays. This means that you place your booking through lastminute but from then on, you have to deal with the holiday company in question.
Both breaks that I have booked were being organised by a company called Short Breaks. The first that I booked was a weekend in Brussels. For a bargain of £129 I got Eurostar tickets from Waterloo to Brussels and two night B&B accommodation in a rather swanky 4 star hotel. I simply followed the prompts, entered my credit card details and a confirmatory email was sent to me with a booking reference. I then received a phone call from Short Breaks to say that my booking was confirmed. All I had to do was turn up at Waterloo with my tickets, my passport and my bags. I had a brilliant weekend. The hotel was superb (see my review for the Hotel Jolly if you’re interested). All in all it was a very satisfactory experience and I was keen to book through lastminute again.
My second dealing wasn’t quite so good. This time we were looking for a weekend break in Dublin. There was nothing listed on the site which was quite as cheap as our previous trip to Brussels but we did find a listing for a flights and a two night stay in a 3 star city centre hotel at £165. I booked this, received my confirmation email and awaited my confirmatory phone call from Short Breaks. Well, they phoned a day later only to tell me that the break I had booked was no longer available – the hotel was full. If I wanted to stay in a city centre hotel I would have to upgrade to a stay for £199 in total. Now this may not seem much, but I was booking for both myself and my partner and so the price increase did add a considerable amount to the overall cost of the break – especially when it was only for a weekend. I pointed out that I had booked a holiday for £165 and expected to pay that much and that much only – if the deals was no longer available then it should not be listed on the website. I pointed out that I believed that I should be able to stay at the alternative hotel for the price I had originally agreed to pay. Unfortunately this got me nowhere and I ended up paying the increased price to stay in what turned out to be a rather shabby hotel. All in all, not the best experience I’ve ever had.
Now I must point out that here the fault lies with Short Breaks and not with lastminute, but it is something to bear in mind when booking through the site – lastminute are only a booking agent and so can not guarantee the cost or availability of the breaks listed on their site.
I’ve since done a little research and have found that if I had organised the break to Dublin myself I could have done so for considerably less money than if I had gone through lastminute.
So, to summarise, I want to say that I find it useful service. I’ve had a brilliant break and a not so brilliant break when booking through them. I would probably use them again but would definitely shop around in the future before committing myself to booking a holiday through them.
Advantages: Last minute bookings, bargains at auction section, many other features Disadvantages: Prices in some cases
...of us would think of lastminute.com as being a provider of only cheap and instant holidays and other travel related services.
This is where we are mistaken. lastminute.com provides much more than just Travel related services.
I first became aware of this site whilst playing some of the games on Tombola. Lastminute.com is the sponsor of one of the games called “Zap”.
I was really very impressed with the site and would like to elaborate ... ...links run down the left hand side of the homepage and some of these are:
1) Holidays – As the name implies this section covers various holiday packages available. They have a very useful and detailed search feature on this page. You need to enter; Date you intend to depart, Select maximum date variation, Where you want to leave from, Your destination, Duration of stay required, Type of accommodation required, and amount you are willing to ...
vinodgm 16.09.2001
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Advantages: offers inspirational last minute ideas on range of servces Disadvantages: not tailor made, more suited to disposable incomes..? not cheapest, major technical problems with Newsletter, lack of customer services
Last Minute.com as many of you may know is a website that allows you to book a variety of late offers from a range of hotels, flights, holidays, entertainment etc.. that may have otherwise have gone unbooked… but just how good are they? Do they really present “value for money” for the consumer? Last minute.com was founded by Martha Fox and Brent Hoberman about 2 years ago. Amidst much hype and anticipation Last Minute decided to ... ...380p, now plummeted to an all time low of 73p! With falling profits they have managed to “double their quarterly loss to £15.4 million” in 2000. So what went wrong, why is the company not able to sustain its profits? The deals were not good enough, profit margins too tight, they were not enough companies wishing to give them a cut..and quite frankly the “last minute” deals were not exciting enough to entice people to come ...
Connoisseur_Haggler 09.03.2001 (13.03.2001)
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Advantages: Wide range of options; plenty of information on products Disadvantages: site can be slow
I first assumed that lastminute was primarily a flight booking site and did not use it. However, when I went looking for a good hotel in London I could afford I ended up - somehow - at the site and have used it regularly since.
How good their deals are in other areas I do not know, but for hotels in London they are excellent.
Go to the home page and click on the 'hotels' homepage. Then you can either do a search by entering London (or wherever) ... ...pages on, for example, 'London £50-£100'This is where I usually start. This section can run to 100 hotels in all categories and price ranges so there is usually something to find.
Hotels are listed nine to a page with a small photograph, a star rating, area and headline price. Click on more info link on any of these and you will get all the information you need - hotel, room and leisure facilities, details of restaurants and bars, highlights of ...
alwynt 15.08.2002
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Advantages: Large choice of flights Disadvantages: Cannot change your mind!
...very expensive. We then found Lastminute.com which doesn’t only deal with flights, in fact there is so much on the Home page it is a wonder we found the section for flights!
Homepage
Cerise pink is the bright colour that meets the eye, the name is in pink and the borders on the different sections are highlighted. There is a lovely picture of sea and sun, all I wanted, was to be transported.
There are sections on hot beach deals, last second hols, ... ...were offering £20 discount for lastminute.com customers. All we had to do was continue to the next stage and pay, it seemed a simple quite painless operation. The prices were better than we had found on other sites.
Problem
We should know nothing in this life is simple! Hubby decided to upgrade the car, and went back to do this, unknown to us the flights reverted to the original suggestion after their search and not the later one we had chosen. ...
jo145 09.07.2004
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Advantages: Great for theme parks and theatres Disadvantages: Shop around and check on 'delivery' options, but watch they don't overbook!!
I've used lastminute.com a few times in the past and recently made two more purchases through them. Until a couple of days ago I expected to come on here singing their praises but one experience has now made me slightly wary.
Firstly I've never tried using them for booking anything major like a holiday or flights so I can't say how they fare on that score. to be honest I think I'm a bit wary of doing that as if something goes wrong with that it ... ...coward or over-cynical but I like a little security and would pay for it.
But now and again it's nice to be able to treat me and the fella or kids to a trip out somewhere and not have to feel I'm blowing all the month's salary. Last year I used them to book theme park tickets. Now I've got two lads of 11 and 14 so I know all about spending stupid amounts of money at theme parks. In fact I don't think I've ever paid full price as I resent seeing ...
ellay864 18.04.2007
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