Are Love2Travel vouchers good value?

fifeken

richardw wrote: »

So why bother?

It reduces the cost of a flight I would normally have bought direct from the airline. I wouldn't normally have used any of the other options and the vouchers were free.

How else would you recommend they are used?

stephb34

DocProc wrote: »

richardw

As a potential holiday maker:

Find out the holiday you want from the list of holiday companies who Park Travel Limited deal with.
ie. the list of holiday companies on the Love2travel list numbers 200.
Get all your details:
Holiday Ref;, Room number/Cabin number; Reservation reference number; the price of your holiday deal and what in includes (eg. full board, drinks included, car hire for a week, return flights, departure airport, arrival airport, class of seats, etc, etc)
Now you can talk to Park Travel Limited, tell them EXACTLY what your holiday is and what it costs and let them book the holiday for you as your travel agent.

What is in it for Park Travel Limited?

Well, you've just about done ALL the work at the stage yuo start to talk to them. You can give Park Travel, who are ATOL registered, etc, ALL the details. They then take your Love2travel Voucher Number and Security Number from you, calculate the balance owing on the holiday and tell you about it, do all the paperwork, book your holiday and send you the Statement and the Final Bill.

I guess they are then going to earn around 10%-18% (it could be more, it could be less - I'm guessing) in commission on your holiday.

You then get the holiday and you've cashed in your voucher. In the doing of it, you've dealt with a VERY REPUTABLE company too.

This is lovely for Park you ring them up tell them exactly what you want all they do is book it, easy money, which is all well and good if you've done the research yourself fair enough. Not very fair on your local travel agent on the high street who gets badgered for hours by someone who has no idea what they want, then finds them exactly what they want and they take all the info to Park and Park reap the benefits. I think RBS do something like this, you tell them what you've found and they book it with a 10% discount.