The internet will never take the place of a good, knowledgable travel agent. Unfortunately for a lot of travellers it's often too late by the time they find out that the travel plans booked online will not live up to expectations. He's 10 quick reasons highlighting some of the piftfalls of online booking.
1. You've googled "Paris Holiday" and come up with 17.8 million responses. Need a little help editing those choices?
2. Remember when you used that obscure website to book your hotel, and when you got there you spent your holiday overlooking a car park?
3. How many hours were you on hold with the airline when your flight was canceled because of a storm (or Volcanic Ash)?
4. Did you really want to spend your honeymoon at that resort whose one tiny pool was filled all day with 12 screaming children?
5. Who knew that when you booked that "villa" in Tuscany, it would be a small room with a kitchenette and no air conditioning? Funny, it looked much better on your computer screen.
6. No one explained to you that in July, it's winter time in Rio, and so you showed up there with nothing but five Hawaiian shirts and three pairs of swimmers.
7. How about the time you really needed a quick getaway and you ended up on the Gold Coast during Schoolies.
8. Yes, I guess that hotel must have used a telephoto lens when they took a picture of those guest rooms that you saw on their website. No, I wouldn’t have guessed that the photo was taken in 1973.
9. I suppose contacting the Attorney General to resolve the fact that that Internet site has billed your credit card three times instead of once is the only route to take at this point.
10. It was definitely odd that there were no cab drivers at the airport at 3 o'clock in the morning when you finally landed in Phuket, but booking a transfer to your very remote hotel would have been a good thing to remember when you purchased your airline ticket and hotel online.
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Click on the FIND ME A HOLIDAY link of our website for two options for a holiday search... we search for you
1. You've googled "Paris Holiday" and come up with 17.8 million responses. Need a little help editing those choices?
2. Remember when you used that obscure website to book your hotel, and when you got there you spent your holiday overlooking a car park?
3. How many hours were you on hold with the airline when your flight was canceled because of a storm (or Volcanic Ash)?
4. Did you really want to spend your honeymoon at that resort whose one tiny pool was filled all day with 12 screaming children?
5. Who knew that when you booked that "villa" in Tuscany, it would be a small room with a kitchenette and no air conditioning? Funny, it looked much better on your computer screen.
6. No one explained to you that in July, it's winter time in Rio, and so you showed up there with nothing but five Hawaiian shirts and three pairs of swimmers.
7. How about the time you really needed a quick getaway and you ended up on the Gold Coast during Schoolies.
8. Yes, I guess that hotel must have used a telephoto lens when they took a picture of those guest rooms that you saw on their website. No, I wouldn’t have guessed that the photo was taken in 1973.
9. I suppose contacting the Attorney General to resolve the fact that that Internet site has billed your credit card three times instead of once is the only route to take at this point.
10. It was definitely odd that there were no cab drivers at the airport at 3 o'clock in the morning when you finally landed in Phuket, but booking a transfer to your very remote hotel would have been a good thing to remember when you purchased your airline ticket and hotel online.
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Click on the FIND ME A HOLIDAY link of our website for two options for a holiday search... we search for you
