increase in package holidays over night

F_Bear

lookin at late deals last night and found a bargin to maderia for £330 with thompsons, checked with work today that the extra day would be ok, came back home to book and its gone up by £100!

there was 8 rooms left last night and still 8 rooms left now. they're cleary chancing their arm with the collapse of monarch :-/

not happy at all so guna wait till it comes down again as now the 'discount price' is higher than the original one!

daveyjp

Thomson also sell flights. Whilst the hotel may still have 8 rooms left, the flight may not have as many seats due to demand from Monarch customers.

bagand96

£330. Is that for a weeks holiday with flights? No wonder the industry is in such a state!

tberry6686

That is for late deals and are always highly discounted. I bboked a holiday on the 30th sept flying on 10th Oct and am paying less than half the book cost. Basically the holiday companies just take what they can get at the last minute to fill things up. Cheaper than having empty seats/hotel rooms.

Booked for a week for myself and missus, total cost £413 including increased baggage allowance)

Westin

tberry6686 wrote: »

That is for late deals and are always highly discounted. I bboked a holiday on the 30th sept flying on 10th Oct and am paying less than half the book cost. Basically the holiday companies just take what they can get at the last minute to fill things up. Cheaper than having empty seats/hotel rooms.

Booked for a week for myself and missus, total cost £413 including increased baggage allowance)

Depends on the agreement the tour operators has with the hotel as to the need for them to drop their trousers and offer such a low price.

Years ago many operators would commit to the room blocks and therefore would sell at a discount just to recoup any money. These days many will simply return unsold rooms to the hotel. No need to discount to the levels from before.

Flight seats slightly difference as they will of course look to fill the aircraft. Any reduction of capacity in the market (such as Monarch not flying) will lead to other previously booked MON/ZB passengers looking to rebook and prices increasing as flight availability is reduced.