Travel companies offers come to late for some families.

I am so annoyed about the discounts the travel companies are offering now for Christmas and the rest of the season, some slashing their prices by £600 per person per week.
If they offered a better deal in the beginning of the season then people would no doubt book, don't they realize that most people families especially have made other arrangements for Christmas now only to find out if they had held back they could have afforded it. :evil:

No wonder people don't book their skiing early.

(This hasn't affected me, but sure it has a lot of families).

I usually wait until the last minute for 1 trip per season. Its great when you turn up in a chalet and everyone tells you how much they paid for their holiday, and you announce you paid 1/3 of what they did.....

If you need to plan and prepare you need to pay full price, simple. Those who could 'not afford' a ski holiday weren't trying hard enough if they were looking at something so expensive that it could be cut by £600 pppw.

Yes I do the same but its down to greed by the companies

Hardly call it greed when TO's don't exactly make bumper profits!
It you have to go on peak dates and want a choice of where to go and where to stay, you'll pay the fuller price. Simple.

daleroberts wrote:Yes I do the same but its down to greed by the companies

I think its called trying to make a profit running a business. People try to think of it as a basic mark up, but you have to think the TO's buy up accommodation and packages in bulk and if they have not sold for what they thought they could get, they will always drop the price to close off availability.
Remember, the deals you see are normally the last few seats on a flight or the last couple of rooms in a hotel, and not the whole set of holidays for that week.

Tony_H wrote:

daleroberts wrote:Yes I do the same but its down to greed by the companies

I think its called trying to make a profit running a business. People try to think of it as a basic mark up, but you have to think the TO's buy up accommodation and packages in bulk and if they have not sold for what they thought they could get, they will always drop the price to close off availability.
Remember, the deals you see are normally the last few seats on a flight or the last couple of rooms in a hotel, and not the whole set of holidays for that week.

Well good luck to them I always book my own flights and separate accommodation for my main ski holidays then take a cheap one off the greedy ones at short notice. :lol:

Tony_H wrote:I usually wait until the last minute for 1 trip per season. Its great when you turn up in a chalet and everyone tells you how much they paid for their holiday, and you announce you paid 1/3 of what they did.....

Thats 1 thing i dont/could never do announce what i had paid... just doesnt seem right to me but i suppose were all different.