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Spain, On your own or through a travel agency?
I wanted to go on vacation and the choice fell on Spain, namely the Costa Brava in August. I scoured the websites of travel agencies, it turned out that the cost goes to this time for 11 days in a 2 * hotel about 30-35 thousand. But after reading the reviews about the fact that after you give the money to the travel agency, their work on this practically stops and no one really cares what will become of you then. Thinking why overpay, I decided to see how much it would be if I booked air tickets and a hotel on my own. And what happened ... the same thing! So I’m suffering now, either I was looking in the wrong place, or it’s really better through a tour company ... Help with advice who traveled in the same way, is independent travel profitable?
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Independent travel is not always profitable financially. Tour operators have big discounts at hotels. Tickets for tour operator charters are also cheaper than regular flights. But the tour operator is cheap only on "standard directions". Try to get some exclusive - the price will skyrocket!
But there are big advantages to traveling alone:
1) Complete freedom in choosing a hotel. There is no need to live in hotels more like Russian-speaking ghettos! Hotels.com and other similar sites to help with booking! By the way, you can book not only a hotel, but also a bungalow, a villa in a suitable place (there are also enough such sites).
2) When you book a hotel yourself, you are guaranteed to pay the money that the hotel costs. A travel agency can slip something miserable, not even worth that kind of money, at the price of an "inexpensive hotel".
3) You can go to any place in Spain, and not only to the resorts that our travel agencies offer holidays.
But there are big advantages to traveling alone:
1) Complete freedom in choosing a hotel. There is no need to live in hotels more like Russian-speaking ghettos! Hotels.com and other similar sites to help with booking! By the way, you can book not only a hotel, but also a bungalow, a villa in a suitable place (there are also enough such sites).
2) When you book a hotel yourself, you are guaranteed to pay the money that the hotel costs. A travel agency can slip something miserable, not even worth that kind of money, at the price of an "inexpensive hotel".
3) You can go to any place in Spain, and not only to the resorts that our travel agencies offer holidays.
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answered 13 years ago
I have the same problem. Only we are going to Italy as a family. For a month now I have been puzzling over which option to choose. But time is running out, you need to decide. Good luck!
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answered 13 years ago
When buying a tour, especially in places worked out by a travel agency, there are pluses, including price and organizational ones. It’s worth bothering on your own when there are no massive package offers or you don’t want to be tied to one place, but there are no reviews. Another "+" is the flight by regular flights. The price is usually higher, but departures/arrivals are "guaranteed"! Of course, there are waves of strikes in Europe right now. But Iberia (Spain) announced the schedule of strikes in advance: Fridays and Mondays - these days it is better not to take tickets to Spain.
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answered 13 years ago
2 weeks ago we arrived as a family from an independent big trip..16 days (Spain, Paris, Rome, Venice)
planes were picked up for 2 months on average, the ticket came out 30 euros (the most expensive flight was Paris-Rome 85 euros) good hotels from 50 euros per room in Spain. complete freedom to move and rest.
accordingly, it is not tied to the hotel restaurant and you eat where and when you want
planes were picked up for 2 months on average, the ticket came out 30 euros (the most expensive flight was Paris-Rome 85 euros) good hotels from 50 euros per room in Spain. complete freedom to move and rest.
accordingly, it is not tied to the hotel restaurant and you eat where and when you want
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answered 13 years ago
Hey! We go to Europe on our own every time. We book a hotel at bookingcom and book via the hotel's direct website. book a car rental in advance. If the papers are in order and there are shengvises in the passports, the visa center is a great success. The cost was recalculated each time. Savings - 25-30%%. But the most important thing, as Pepper wrote, is freedom of action and choice (and it’s better to take worthy hotels for the saved day). Of the minuses. So that there are no problems on the trip, you need to spend a month on the network (they scored everything along the route on the navigator) Then you feel at home.
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answered 13 years ago
lepilo66 , you overdid it about saving 25-30%, I myself am now choosing a tour to Andalusia for an independent trip, comparing prices with offers from TO, well, I don’t win at all, except for what is a plus for me, I choose what I want, but not from the list that they offer TO. And if you compare apartments or hotels at the prices of agencies and on booking, then there is no savings at all. Book directly with the hotel.
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answered 13 years ago
Dear Lena5502. Maybe he went over (misrepresented) with interest ... Let's think logically: What is the maximum percentage of the discount when buying a tour to the same Egypt? I was once given 10%, and taking into account "early booking) - 14.5%. The travel agency buys tours from the tour operator, and this is at least 5%. Less is not profitable. The tour operator buys the tour from the hotel. Again, at least 5%. We get 24.5% and this is at a minimum. That is, the tour gets to you through at least two intermediaries. plus an intermediary in the visa center if to Europe (translation, copying of papers, etc.), It turns out, according to you, three or two intermediaries ALTRUISTS AND PHILANTROPS? I don’t believe it. When they visited Rome through an agency, they got a hotel, to put it mildly, sucks. With an independent choice, of course, they don’t choose the feces, but here you have to pay. maybe this hides the percentage. Everyone decides for himself. This is my opinion, which has developed over 7 mi years 2 - 3 trips per year.
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answered 13 years ago
The main thing is to choose the right tour company so that there is no agency under another agency and so on.
Therefore, I advise you to look for DIRECT hosts in Spain.
For example Novovira, Terramar Tour, Tez tour and others who have offices right in Spain.
But you can do it yourself, a hotel through booking.com, a flight through a company from your city, and even cheaper to Moscow by train and from there by plane.
You can rent a car locally, buy guidebooks for the cities you need and go ahead.
But if you are planning a BEACH vacation, then it is better through agencies, it will be cheaper.
Therefore, I advise you to look for DIRECT hosts in Spain.
For example Novovira, Terramar Tour, Tez tour and others who have offices right in Spain.
But you can do it yourself, a hotel through booking.com, a flight through a company from your city, and even cheaper to Moscow by train and from there by plane.
You can rent a car locally, buy guidebooks for the cities you need and go ahead.
But if you are planning a BEACH vacation, then it is better through agencies, it will be cheaper.
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answered 13 years ago
lepilo66 I don’t mind, I just wrote that the difference in the cost of a hotel of 25-30 thousand is slightly exaggerated, if you read my comment carefully, then I don’t urge you to buy a hotel through MOT, I myself tend to myself. tourism, because I say again, what I need is not at TO. Regarding the% of TAs that are cheated, it does not buy tours from TO, but sells them receiving an agency commission for this, previously it was 10-15%, how much it is difficult to say now, because. I haven’t been working in the tourism sector for 2 years, they say% has become less, in general, the usual practice is when a travel agency transfers an amount to a tour operator already minus its commission or, under some forms of contract, the tour operator pays (returns) its commission to the agency periodically, a discount about which you say, even 5% halves the profit of TA, something like that.
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answered 13 years ago
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