Package or separate holiday-travelling from two different countries

ATC111

Is it possible to arrange a package holiday when each person is travelling from a different country?

Or are separate flights/accomodation the only option?

Also, can separate travel insurance policies be linked in the event of a claim by either party?

Thank you in advance.

eskbanker

Assuming the subtext here is applicability of the (UK) Package Travel Regulations, then these include the definition with which any such arrangements would need to conform:

(5) In these Regulations, subject to paragraph (6), a “package” means a combination of at least two different types of travel services for the purpose of the same trip or holiday, if—

(a) those services are combined by one trader, including at the request of, or in accordance with, the selection of the traveller, before a single contract on all services is concluded; or

(b) those services are—

(i) purchased from a single point of sale and selected before the traveller agrees to pay,

(ii) offered, sold or charged at an inclusive or total price,

(iii) advertised or sold under the term “package” or under a similar term,

(iv) combined after the conclusion of a contract by which a trader entitles the traveller to choose among a selection of different types of travel services, or

(v) purchased from separate traders through linked online booking processes where—

(aa) the traveller's name, payment details and e-mail address are transmitted from the trader with whom the first contract is concluded to another trader or traders, and

(bb) a contract with the latter trader or traders is concluded at the latest 24 hours after the confirmation of the booking of the first travel service,

irrespective of whether the traveller concludes separate contracts with one or more travel service providers in respect of the services.

(6) A combination of travel services where not more than one type of travel service of the kind listed in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of the definition of “travel service” is combined with one or more tourist services of the kind listed in paragraph (d) of that definition is not a package if the latter services—

(a) do not account for a significant proportion of the value of the combination and are not advertised as, and do not otherwise represent, an essential feature of the combination; or

(b) are selected and purchased after the performance of a travel service of the kind listed in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of the definition of “travel service” has started.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/634/regulation/2

You could ask a travel agent if they're able and willing to sell all the relevant components for you?

Travel insurance is likely to be more complex if the policyholders reside in different countries, but family policies may be viable if the individuals are related?

twopenny

A package holiday probably wouldn't work because the flights would come from different countries not negotiated by the company of one of the countries.

It might be possible for one person to arrange their own flights/transfers and join a package. They aren't keen and you have to be in the same destination at the same day.

Each person would need insurance from their own country and their holiday would be different.

You could each of you buy your own package in your own country for the same place if you could find agents who stocked the same hotel.

Package holiday companies negotiate and buy flights/hotels and transfers a long way in advance to get a good price and make up the package. They don't buy and book as people request.