Hums airport is ace , check in in minutes , flying back in , off the plane and home in about 45 mins , awesome - going to Italy through KLM via Amsterdam flights all through are decent price . I didn’t know they did full holidays though or had forgotten .
Tui they fly Saturday and Tuesday now so we are going for ten nights in September .I always book everything through Andrew Earles in Anlaby ,Alistair will always price match and you get the back up of a proper Travel agent ,we had a problem in Thailand in January and they resolved it all for us Almost immediately.
Do the flights all go via Amsterdam? This probably isn't for me as I don't book package holidays but no-brainer if you do with the price matching.
I’ve been abroad from Humberside a few times, but just booked flights and hotels separate. Flights through KLM. You mostly need to change in Schiphol, Amsterdam, but from there you can go almost anywhere. Been to the States from there a few times and taking into account the reduced travel etc it’s been as quick from Humberside as going direct from Manchester etc.
Just booked mine, five days in Lidingö (Stockholm) next month and then a week in Rhodes mid September (doing a posh one in Rhodes and went to a travel agent event in Cottingham yesterday and ended up getting it for £300 less than the direct online price - not sure how that works).
We've probably been sitting very smugly for all these years,proud of having just booked our own holiday online...And it would've been hundreds of pounds cheaper going to the High Street Incidentally,I know people to this day who still book in the travel agents(through one reason or another but mainly due to not being very computer friendly), and they never seem to complain about being ripped off.
Last summer, with too much time on my hands, I thought I'd arrange my own flights, apartment, transfers etc for a place we often fly to with either Jet2 or Tui. Couldn't get within a £150 of the online package price. (And couldn't get an apartment with AC as Tui block book them all).
Nice holiday plans. Are you doing the run there? Edit - stupid question, just saw you're there next month and Rhodes in Sep.
To be honest,I've got to the stage where I've seen enough of far off places and the rip off involved in it all.The wife and I have been going on holidays abroad since 1979,I've enjoyed it but after my last trip to Lanzarote in April I got back home and said to her "that's it Mrs,I've seen enough and had enough".. As an afterthought,I think holidays abroad are going to start coming down in price? Normal working class people are struggling to afford the luxuries in life and these travel companies(such as Tui,jet2 etc) will need to do better to entice people to spend their hard earned on paying extra for a seat,extortionate on-board drink prices,lack of representatives at the Hotels and some of their advertised properties being unfit for purpose? P.S...On the flight out from Glasgow to Arrecife in April,there were 60 spare seats.I've never seen that in 46 years of holidaying...
Just watched Simon Reeves Scandinavia on catch up. Great watch btw. 1st thought when I saw your post was 'you're brave'! But then see you're going to one of those islands. Sensible! Sailed through the archipelago on way to Aarland Isles and then Finland a few years back. Good times.
It was funny, as we'd already found the place we liked and I'd nearly booked it the day before, the only reason we hadn't, was because a lot of the posh adult only hotels in the Greek Islands either have a bath in the bedroom, or have a completely glass bathroom, which my missus hates and we couldn't find any images of the bathrooms in this particular hotel anywhere. It was with Jet 2 and we knew Jet 2 were going to be at the event in Cottingham (it was hosted by Cotton Travel in Cottingham), we really only went to check the bathroom situation before we booked. As soon as I found out it had a proper bathroom, we were going to leave and book it at home, then they said there's a chance we could get a bigger discount booking it at the event and we did.
Both trips have actually been determined by others, as we're going to a wedding at each place, though we made the second one our main summer holiday as well.
Simon Reeve's really good, I like all his travel shows, but the Scandi ones have been particularly interesting.
Finland episode, whilst really interesting, made me smile a few times. Nearly every Finn he interviewed was absolutely the stereo typical Finn, particularly the young conscripts! Proud nation.
I did Rhodes last year. 1st time since I was about 20 and I forgot just how nice it is. Went to Rhodes Town and Lindos with a few days on Symi.
