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Waspman:
Look my my reply below Jonny Rebel, I think you will see that booking privately is the way to go.
"Can't fault Thomson", I think many others will disagree!!

loftyscot:
Excellent feedback everyone, thanks for sharing it all.

This is Loftyscot reporting from a part of the country that doesn't do low cost carriers to Corfu. Everybody say awwwww!

Now, if I want to go to the Canaries, that's a different story.

Happy New Year.

Gavlah1973:

Hi Waspman

Thinking back to last year at the Romanza....the cost was around £1100 for 2 of us for 2 weeks on a B&B basis. That was for the last week in August/1st week Sept

You do seem to have got it at a great price

loftyscot:
Yes indeed, we book directly too but unfortuantely need to fly from either Glasgow, Edinburgh or Newcastle.

We booked our Thomson flights for this year on the 1st Aug 2010 and paid about £950 for three people. We had a nosy at the Manchester easyjet flight for the same dates when they first come out for curiousity and were surprised that that it was still going to cost about £700. Therefore the trade-off for us is whether to do the 400 mile return journey to save £250. We have done it before to when flying to other destinations but it does take the polish of the holiday feeling especially when you are coming home. On the plus side the Thomson flight times from Glasgow and Edinburgh are perfect being in the early morning whereas early morning from Manchester means leaving the night before.

The point I'm making about Thomson is that it is an easy target for criticism (and believe me I have criticised them in the past) but when it's published accounts show it makes c£400m profit from roughly 20m customers then even if it adopted charitable status and refunded the profits we would only receive on average £20 each! As I say that's on average, however there will be winners like Waspman and others like myself where the saving is marginal.

And unbelievably we've met people in SS and other resorts where it is cheaper for them to book with the tour operator - usually larger families jumping on the free child places which as we know don't appear with the budget carriers. In fact it happened to us when we went to Fuerteventura last October.

So as we all agree, you do your own research and then you pick the horse for your course

Yammas, preggo, slanje etc  ;)

Rover:
Waspman, I have no doubt that you are doing the right thing for you!
Re horses and courses, Johnny Rebel is looking good as well?
Once again, enjoy your holiday and Mythos!

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