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Me and my boyfriend recently visited the Greek island Kos and stayed in a luxurious 4 star half board complex which (for once) really was worthy of its 4 stars! We booked through First Choice and were lucky enough to get a last minute deal and our holiday had been reduced… bargain we thought! However once at the hotel we got chatting to a few other Brits – two of whom had booked through First Choice in advance and paid over £100 more per person than myself and my boyfriend and also another couple who had booked over teletext and paid half of what we paid! (I just felt sorry for those that had ... more

Searching for holidays online can be a bit of a minefield, one the one hand you can find great deals and see a range of choice that you may not find walking around travel agents and looking through brochures. However, the choice and different website can be bewildering. This is why teletext is such a great site to look at. Essentially it’s like a portal site linking you to holiday offers based on the requirements you enter into their search engine. The home page is well organised and the different sections are colour coded, I like a bit of colour coding! On the homepage you have the ... more

About September time me and my friends decided we would embark on our first holiday together as just the girlies... We were all looking forward to it immensly but beofre we had even got there we had been messed about twice. Although I can't really complain each time they changed our hotel we got an upgrade, I mean we paid for a 2 * and got a 3 *, but we were still out of the way from all the clubs and the beach and it was a fair walk if you didn't know where you were going! So we all took it on the chin and when we got there we were dropped off in the middle of nowhere not knowing where to go ... more

These days, travel agents offer LESS of a choice, not more. The reason for this is the fact that the big chains are owned by major tour operators such as Thomson and Airtours and they want their staff to sell THEIR own products not the competitors. Generous staff commission payments ensure that if you walk into a Lunn Poly shop, a smiling assistant will do his or her best to sell you a Thomson holiday, even if its not what you want. Similarly, My Travel Company (Going Places)staff will always try to persuade you to opt for Airtours. So can you really trust them to find what's best for you ... more

I find that booking holidays can be so stressful that you need the holiday to get over the stress from booking! Travel agents put pressure on you to take the higher priced deals, or are so damned useless you are in the office for 3 days just trying to communicate to them that you don't want to go on a package holiday to Benidorm. I hate it. I generally travel independently in any case, but last year I tried to book a lastminute break, ony to find that most lastminute deals aren't up to much. I got so fed up with travel agents I jsut bought an interrail pass and fled. Then my brother told me ... more