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UK travel agents

  • 27-12-2009 3:59pm
    #1
    nicola09
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    Ok so I want to go to Turkey this year, I went there before with Sunway holidays but am kind of wary of booking with Irish travel agents since Budget Travel went under, plus I'm getting much better deals on UK websites like Thomas Cook etc. I'm planning on booking Ryanair flights to a UK airport and proceeding from there, would this be a bad idea? Has anyone done this before? (i'm sure plenty have?!) could anybody recommend good UK agents?


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  • #2
    RxQueen
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    they can go bust just the same way that budget did shur

    erm if you do, do it make sure you leave plenty of time between your ryanair flight and the other filght , cause ryanair could be delayed etc etc


    anyways Thomas Cook is one of the best


    you could just book flight departing here, and your hotel with alpha rooms(there so cheap) save ya going through england alltogether... you will get cheapish flight only to turkey with sunworld if you hang on til the last min, depending on the time of the year obv not a chance for july and aug

    www.alpharooms.ie www.sunworld.ie


  • #3
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    First of all, a number of UK travel agents have gone down the tube also, so that wouldn't sway me overly ;)

    The biggest problem is that unless it's a particularily good deal, doing it via your method may not save you much. By the time you add on the cost of Ryanair flights, baggage charges etc, a couple of hours buffer zone (at least 4 hours between arrival/departure to collect bags, re-check bags with holiday airline clear security and the associated waiting around at the airports in the UK on either side) and factor in the risk (one late/cancelled Ryanair flight, and your holiday is busted and/or one late inbound flight to the UK and you're faced with some very expensive last-minute purchase flights back to Ireland). Neither airline will care if the other is late and that's why you missed your flight etc.

    Of course, you could always fly over/back the day before you depart/later on day of arrival or day after, to be safe: but then you have to add on the cost of a hotel to overnight in at the UK airport.

    So good deal may not be such a good deal after all, and could work out quite expensive.

    If you're really determined to only go with a UK operator, you could look at flights leaving Belfast, which with the motorway isn't that bad a drive from Dublin Airport.


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