Travel Websites

This topic was brought up recently on watchdog; but while doing some research into travel websites today I felt it best to flag up again.

Travelsupermarket.com was advertising a trip to Egypt all inclusive for £287 for 7 nights.

Sounds great, not bad value at all to travel thousands of miles for sun, sand and sea.

However on going a bit deeper into the site, the cost is not actually £287 (which is only really there to entice you in); but jumps up to around £700! Which is quite a bit more

This is then factoring in, airport transfers, insurance and luggage costs.  These come to around £50 as an extra, however the site does not explain how the price jumped up from £287 up to £700?

Travel and holidays is something that many people now see as the norm; something that we all do and you just have to hunt around for the best deal.  However on the above example, the way that the marketing of such holidays is carried out seems confusing and frustrating.

You look in the shop window of a travel agent, and generally the price you see advertised is the price that you pay.

However with price comparison sites, this does not appear to be the case.  the price you first see (as the above example from today shows) will change in just one click of a button.

Advice - keep hunting!