I'm Going Places This Year, Are You

Advantages: Good value for money, excellent deals, very helpful staff.
Disadvantages: Have to buy own food. Might have go tit cheaper if booked at last minute.

...I have waited to post this opinion until I had actually booked the holiday, which I did this morning. I wasn’t going to post it first and let you lot beat me to the Travel Agents! Ha! There aint no flies on carolinesite ;-) Firstly, after writing my opinion about a cruise I had in 1995, I felt I wanted another holiday like that. I picked up a few brochures from the Going Places shop, and sat down with a cup of coffee. I was horrified at how much the prices had gone up in 6 years. They were asking about £1,000 per person for a weeks cruise and a week on land, compared to £650 in 1995. I know prices go up, but a 40% increase in 6 years is disgusting. I gave that idea up. Next, I looked through the Airtours Summer 2001 brochure. I was mainly looking for All Inclusive holidays, as they are good value for money. I wanted...

carolinesite 07.04.2001 · Read review
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Going No Place

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Inaccurate brochure descriptions and apalling customer service

...holiday we exchanged several letters and phone calls with Going Places regarding suitable offers of compensation. For a holiday that cost £450 each we were offered £50 in total. The process of complaining became so tiresome that we did not end up even accepting that. Overall I was shocked and disappointed with the appalling customer service of such a well known and established company. I have refused to book through them since....

DEE 31.08.2001 · Read review
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Going Places - Rhyl, North Wales

Advantages: Friendly Staff - Is nothing to much for them?
Disadvantages: Could do with more staff working there

...plan which we found bareable to pay (I don't like paying for things - so bareable is v. good!) The staff were so friendly and each one was ready to give an opinion on our destination and those that we didn't pick. A case of "My mother went there and said it was best for young ones" or "That was a great place - one of the nicest beaches I've been on" etc Great advice about weather and currency was given, and I felt that they really cared that you had a good holiday. Whilst there on that day, they had an influx of people coming in to thank them for a great holiday, giving their views on the accomodation, area etc... and they were genuinely interested to hear it all. Every time I went in to pay, they wold remember me and where I was to go and would ask me if I was exited and let me know the opinions of people that had just come...

Mens 19.02.2004 · Read review
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Going Places..oh yes we are

Advantages: Really friendly staff
Disadvantages: none at all

...I have never felt compelled to write about a travel agency until today. I was very lucky to find Going Places to book my holiday but I learnt the hard way, I had spent two hours trundling from one to the next and found the other agencies to be useless. I wasnt an easy customer, I wanted to go to an exact park in France, I had two weeks to play with but the departure had to be a Sunday crossing. I knew of three companies who used the park but not the name of the other two. I had drawn a blank and had in fact resigned to another week in Cornwall when I noticed Going Places offered free refreshments when requesting a quote...enough to grab my attention. Well a nice cup of tea and my woes about not going away when the aassistant found all the available sites I asked for, was able to offer a really good deal and even got it...

wENDIEWOO 17.07.2002 · Read review
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GOING FOR GOLD

Advantages: friendly staff
Disadvantages: forgetful staff

...PRE HOLIDAY ACTION! My local Going Places had a advertising drive last year on discounted American holidays. Naturally, being a US 'virgin' I was intrigued by the sign which plastered "Going Place, for 30% less" and so my girlfriend and I booked 10 days in Florida, staying on the beach for a week (Clearwater) and then travelling up to the Theme Parks in Orlando. The staff at our local branch were very helpful, if a little over enthusiastic, and had all appeared to have visited, travelled or stayed in the actual beds we were to be sleeping in at some time in their lives, cue "you must do this, you must do that, you'll love it, I loved it, my nan had a great time, you can't leave this out, you can't leave that out etc etc etc". Their somewhat prescriptive attidue to holiday making is a little off putting, but overall you do feel as...

r-rackham 21.01.2002 · Read review
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Going Places... Not at these prices

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Total waste of time

...I was very unimpressed with Going Places when we tried their services recently. My partner and I wanted book a holiday over Christmas and the New Year this year for ourselves and our 10 year old son, and we had a very good idea of where we wanted to go (4 star hotel in either Paphos, Cyprus or the Canaries) and a total budget of under £2k. Despite explaining all this and specifying that we could only fly within certain dates, the girl at their Liverpool Bold Street Branch who dealt with our enquiry was unable to find us anything which came even close to fitting the bill. The first holiday she found for us was 3.2k, and it didn't really get much better. When after 15 minutes the best she could manage to turn up was a 3 star hotel still well over budget at £2.5k, we'd had enough and made our excuses and left. Finding it hard to believe...

Susanlj 08.06.2001 · Read review
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Where the Lost Things Go? A Place Called Here . . .

Advantages: Hearing the 'authentic' Irish Accent; the abridging makes the story less meandering
Disadvantages: Some of the incidental plot nuances are lost in the abridging; have to change discs.

...I must confess that I was bought the Paperback version of this book first . . . my husband bought a "Best Seller" at the library that was being sold off for 50p and I read it the same night. It was one 'off the wall' book which really struck a chord with me, as my husband often 'tears the house apart" looking for something he mislays; and sometimes it doesn't turn up at all . . . . Or I am looking for a particular CD or Cassette, and I can find the case ~ but it is empty ~ Where HAVE all the lost things gone? Well, it's A Place Called Here according to this book by Dublin-born Cecelia Ahern. She's got some wacky theories, but this one is pretty amazing! . I really did want to hear this in the "original tongue" (Oirr-ish*) as it were, though, and having an Amazon voucher to spend, I couldn't resist buying the audio version...

jesi 27.03.2009 (25.03.2009) · Read review
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Review of A Place Called Here - Cecelia Ahern

They're GOING PLACES

Advantages: friendly service, value for money
Disadvantages: no recognized website

...When me and my friends hit the high street, we were in search of cheap week in the sun. We wanted to go in early September and so thought that it would be quite difficult finding a holiday under £300. Anyhow, we went to Going Places and were really pleased with the service and the booking we were met with. We went to Going Places in Cardiff and the travel agent was extremely helpful and had so much time for us - nothing was too much hassle. I know that it is their job and they work off commision, but she really tried hard to get the best deal for us. In the end we ended up paying £313 for a week in Puerto Rico, Gran Canaria, flying from Cardiff and with pre-booked flight seats. We were delighted! The agent who served us was very cheerful and well-traveled (a huge advantage!) and had actually been to Puerto Rico (which was also...

Lisa4 22.03.2001 · Read review
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NOT going places

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Booking error, double charging, unhelpful, couldn't care less attitude

...Here's a bad experience to report... We booked a holiday to Italy, and paid £1,200 from Going Places in Ashton-Under-Lyne. We booked a couple of weeks before. When we got the confirmation the information didn't seam right, so I went into the agents to double check it. I found that they had booked us into a hotel of the same name, but in an entirely different town ! Going Places were extremely unhelpfull. The hotel we wanted was now fully booked, and going places would't pay the difference for us to stay in a similar 4 star which was still available. On top of all this they charged my switch card twice by mistake, meaning we were £2,400 out of pocket, with no money, and no means of paying for an alternative. The whole episode was a farce, and going places just could't care less. They sent us a £50 voucher WOW....

GaryWilde 26.01.2001 · Read review
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Knowing and going

Advantages: Typical Seussian rhyme and a good story
Disadvantages: none

...Of Seuss-an reviews this is the third Likely my last, mostly absurd But I had to think of life's general direction And that brought me to this little reflection The places we go The places we know The things that we show The hearts that all glow Life is but a journey friend And friend with friend up till the end We should be happy and we should be free You should be you and I'll just be me And OH, OH, the places we'll go We'll go hither and we'll go fro Over the rainbow and under a smile Making the light year seem less than a mile My own trek is one through theology Determined it feels by biology And compels me upon my wonderful way And never doubting it for a day That this is where I'm called to be This is what I'm charged to see By some much grander holy light Which may someday give me greater sight...

frkurt 18.02.2005 · Read review
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