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  • 14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    wickedwilfred

    5 Stars lateescapes.com 14/08/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages cheap, last minute, known operator

    Disadvantages Disadvantages can go mad with the bidding

    I found this website last year after reading about a couple who bought a holiday for 50p for the two of them to Cyprus. I visited the site regularly through the summer but couldn't find anything for the dates I wanted for 3 people. Most lateescapes holidays are for 2, occasionally 3 and 4, holidays for more than that are almost invariably camping. The site is a subsidiary of Airtours. You have to register to bid, and then having found a holiday which you like you can either bid the minimum increment which is posted at the side of the page or you can bid the maximum you are willing to pay but ... more
  • 1 of 1 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    bssb

    4 Stars Looks Good! 17/07/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Cheap

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not tested yet!

    Lateescapes.com is an auction site which generally auctions off late holiday and flight deals. It is ideal if you do not mind where you go and are pretty flexible about times and location of departure. Their deals start from 50p for a holiday. Although it is unlikely you will get this it is still possible. Overall the site is well built with the holidays set into sub-sections. My only grievance is the relatively hard to use search engine. I could just about get it to search for all holidays currently under £200. There looks like there is the potential for bargains here, but as yet I have not ... more
  • 12 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    placido

    5 Stars Wonderful site! 10/07/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Book cheap holidays from your computer

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None that I found

    This is in my opinion the best of the on line sites. It is easy to navigate. You need to register and then it is an auction for the holidays they have on offer. Information is comprehensive on the site but a phone number is provided should you want further information. Holidays are sold extremely cheaply and following the auction all details are given and final booking made by a combination of email and phone. You do need a credit or debit card to participate. Although a lot of the holidays on offer are "accomadation allocated on arrival" we had a brilliant apartment right on the sea front ... more
  • 13 of 13 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    joannetillin

    5 Stars Take a break at an affordable price 25/02/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Incredible low cost, fast running site, easy to use

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None! Though I guess I'd like to see more cheap trips to NY!

    Normally I am fortunate enough to go on two family holidays a year - one main holiday abroad and then a shorter holiday in the UK. We had booked our main one to go to Malta later this year, but were having trouble deciding on a location for the second break. After some surfing around, we came across www.lateescapes.com We are really thrilled that we did! We have managed to book a week's holiday for five people in a large mobile home in France at the minor cost of £161 including channel crossing! Bargain! To use the website, you need to register. After having done this, you can place bids on ... more
  • 2 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    maryziggy

    5 Stars lateescapes.com 08/09/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Good fun,with lots of holidays on offer

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Can be outbid in the last seconds of the auction,which can be down heartnening

    Having come across the site I spent hours watching other bids win and fail! I did however manage to get a winning bid for a holiday for two weeks during August of this year, which saved me over 300 hundred pounds on the brochure cost of the holiday. The site is good fun, however can be frustrating as just as you think you have got the winning bid you are outbid litterally in the final seconds of the auction.Yes I know thats the nature of the game re an auction, but at the time it feels like your holiday has been swiped from under your nose. I would suggest watching other holidays being bid on ... more
  • 1 of 2 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    markfearnley

    5 Stars Get packing 23/06/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages very cheap holidays

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Don\'t set your heart on a trip- you may be outbid

    I used lateescapes.com last year and got flights to Las Vegas for £150 (for 2 of us!!). They\'ve got a plethora of lots on offer at the moment, notable ones are Sri Lanka for £142 and majorca for £150. The site is run by Airtours plc so its not a dodgy back street operation - everything that is offered is a quality holiday/flight and the price is definitely not representative of the high quality. I don\'t know how they afford to offer the holidays out so cheap. Even the holidays priced a lot higher than the headline grabbing amounts still work out at a bargain - usually two for the price of ... more
  • 13 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Scammer

    4 Stars Add some excitment to booking your holiday 25/05/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Can get very cheap deals

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Being outbid

    last summer I stumbled across lateescapes.com while I was looking for flights to america for myself and my boyfriend. My friend was staying in Florida, not in a tourist resort, so we just booking accom over there (Much cheaper this way BTW). Anyway found some flights at the time we were looking to go, and started watching the amount of bids and how much flights were actually going for, compared to the starting bid. So I found our flight and put a bid in a day before auction ended, I would get an email when some one else out bid. As sure as can be a few miuntes an email, I had been out bid, the ... more
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