lastminute.com

No experience of lastminute.com Have used Vayama and Expedia for flights and Agoda and Expedia for accommodation.No problems except Expedia a bit to respond with refunds.

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I've used them just for flights, they're often cheaper than booking through airlines especially if you're booking long distance connecting flights from Ireland. If there's ever any problems (time changes etc) then I always deal directly with the airline anyway and never had any issues.

endofrainbow wrote: »

why use a middle man ? any problems it's just another layer between you and the supplier

I've never found that, you can still go directly to the airline if you have problems not the middle man.

For example, I had flights booked through Expedia last year and the flights times were changed significantly so that I'd have to take extra time off work. Contacted the Ethiopian Airlines directly and they changed me to a different flight for free because the change was so significant. Another time I was having trouble booking seats on the airline website, can't remember what airline it was but I phoned them and they sorted it for me.

The reason to use a middleman is usually because it often works out a lot cheaper (this is mostly true for people traveling long distances with multiple flights, obviously if I was just travelling to Europe or the US point to point I'd book directly). I booked a multi-stop trip on Vayama recently to Brazil, Chile & Argentina....priced the exact same flights on the airline websites and it was almost €1100 more.