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Hooray. Today it's been thundering, lightning and generally pissing it down. But I'm not phased by this at all, for I am journeying across the globe for my Summer Holiday shortly.
Having popped into a branch of Thompson for a mostly unhelpful search for holidays in the Agaean Coastal regions of Turkey or Greece, we were a little worried our meagre budget of £250 for a week somewhere sunny with a beach was almost unattainable.
After a quick break to grab some quality lunch from McDonalds we tried popping into Thomas Cook. What a lovely bunch of staff they were; all in jovial chirpy moods. Rebecca browsed through dozens of package holidays throwing most options out of the window because either a) the destination didn't have a nice beach or b) it was above our price!
We exhausted Thomas Cook's options and went on to look through the First Choice packages... On about page 4 of their suggestions was a £43 holiday. Too good to be true we thought.
It was to Turkey (Gumbet in fact, near Bodrum) - just where we wanted to go. Too good to be true we thought.
It was flying out of Birmingham International - precisely where we wanted to fly from. Too good to be true we thought.
The travel dates where perfect for us! Too good to be true we thought.
The accomodation was a named hotel, not one of these silly assign-you-a-crappy-appartment-in-a-building-site-on-arrival schemes! And not only that, it was a 4 star hotel! Too good to be true we thought.
So having rushed through the booking process, Andrew and I are off for a week in Turkey for an incredible £103 (there are fuel suppliments, airport passenger tax and transfers on top of the £43).
!!!
Having popped into a branch of Thompson for a mostly unhelpful search for holidays in the Agaean Coastal regions of Turkey or Greece, we were a little worried our meagre budget of £250 for a week somewhere sunny with a beach was almost unattainable.
After a quick break to grab some quality lunch from McDonalds we tried popping into Thomas Cook. What a lovely bunch of staff they were; all in jovial chirpy moods. Rebecca browsed through dozens of package holidays throwing most options out of the window because either a) the destination didn't have a nice beach or b) it was above our price!
We exhausted Thomas Cook's options and went on to look through the First Choice packages... On about page 4 of their suggestions was a £43 holiday. Too good to be true we thought.
It was to Turkey (Gumbet in fact, near Bodrum) - just where we wanted to go. Too good to be true we thought.
It was flying out of Birmingham International - precisely where we wanted to fly from. Too good to be true we thought.
The travel dates where perfect for us! Too good to be true we thought.
The accomodation was a named hotel, not one of these silly assign-you-a-crappy-appartment-in-a-building-site-on-arrival schemes! And not only that, it was a 4 star hotel! Too good to be true we thought.
So having rushed through the booking process, Andrew and I are off for a week in Turkey for an incredible £103 (there are fuel suppliments, airport passenger tax and transfers on top of the £43).
!!!
wicked dude! total bargain!
have a great time :D
by Andrew at 03:42 on 19th Aug 2006
Total cost £115 each + spending money.
The manager of Thomas Cook (solihull high street) insisted that Rebecca phoned up First Choice to confirm that the holiday had indeed been really really booked at that price, and lo & behold it had been.
Rebecca (the nice lady who was dealing with our rather vague request for a holiday) and the rest of the staff got rather excited at the price, and in fact one of them found the same holiday even cheaper... If we had flown from East Midlands airport (nr Nottingham) and the plane had flown via Humberside it would have been £23 + taxes (giving a total cost or around £90-95 -- however it would have been hard for us to get to East Midlands and back for £20 and the "via Humberside" bit made the extra cost worthwhile
We must remember to send them a postcard to confirm that it wasn't a building site or mega-mosquito season or anything like that
This is of course assuming that they didn't all take time off, in which case we'll see them on the plane :)
by Andrew at 23:55 on 21st Aug 2006
Matt moaned at me, so I should point out that he said £103 and I said £115 for the holiday each.
I was including the £12 (per person) charge for meals on the flights (£103 + £12 = £115 etc)
Sorry if that caused any confusion.
by Matt at 19:37 on 22nd Aug 2006
*giggles*
by Chris at 08:30 on 30th Aug 2006
1 week? Turkey?
HA!!!!
/me wanders back off towards the mountains and vineyards looking forward to this weeks winery tours and last weeks skiing.
Oh, anyone got any money? I'm skint :-/
by Clare at 06:34 on 06th Sep 2006
Sounds super! Enjoy! (Or maybe, by this point in time, enjoyed...)
by Angela Bionaki at 10:25 on 11th Mar 2007
Kogda nastanut holoda i belaja doroga ljazhet