FLIGHTS

[lindajo]

I have just received a quote from the flights link at the top of the page but they say that we must book our car hire with them to book the flights, which I might add are very reasonable. I intend using the forum car hire link as their prices are excellent. Has anyone else had this problem?
Lindajo

[Nostromo]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by lindajo
I have just received a quote from the flights link at the top of the page but they say that we must book our car hire with them to book the flights, which I might add are very reasonable. I intend using the forum car hire link as their prices are excellent. Has anyone else had this problem?
Lindajo
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If Flights as well as Car Hire quotes in the links are excellent, then why is it a 'problem'?

[E. Cosgrove]

I wonder if Lindajo is saying that the car hire offerred with the flights is that offerred by the travel agent who arranges the flights.
They are different to the Car Hire company .....I think!!!!

[floridadreamvilla.co.uk]

Certain fares they offer have to be sold as a package i.e. they have to sell another component for your holiday as well as flights (don't ask me why as it does not make a lot of sense to me either). I looks like the fare they quoted you is one of these. They sell car hire independantly of us.

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by lindajo
I have just received a quote from the flights link at the top of the page but they say that we must book our car hire with them to book the flights, which I might add are very reasonable. I intend using the forum car hire link as their prices are excellent. Has anyone else had this problem?
Lindajo
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[LiesaAnna]

i mentioned on another thread, that when i first came into this forum i wasnt aware of the link at the top for car hire, i didnt think anyone could beat the quote we had with another company, for a 7 seater minivan for two weeks first two weeks of december was £356, the link at the top was even better, i wouldnt have thought twice if this was me i would've booked it!!!!

[heathercobbett]

If you get a good quote for flights,go for it. Flight prices can go up and when several of you are going,it mounts up.(I KNOW THIS TO MY COST!)

[christhear]

I had to book car hire through them when I booked BA flights for next summer, they did match the car hire price on this site, but it meant I lost out on getting points to get me higher up the listings. The flight price was the best I could get though.

[Matt]

I'm a member of Wexas with whom I get discounted airfares.

Whenever my booking itinery comes through it always show a hotel booking for the first two nights of my stay.

The first time I noticed this I obviously queried it as I hadn't booked a hotel, the agent just advised me that booking the flight as a package is cheaper, and to just ignore the hotel room, or use it if I wanted. No need to cancel it or anything, just don't turn up.

I guess this is the same as mentioned at the start of this thread by Lindajo.

Matt

[floridadreamvilla.co.uk]

As far as I am aware it was only happening on Virgin and not BA.

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by christhear
I had to book car hire through them when I booked BA flights for next summer, they did match the car hire price on this site, but it meant I lost out on getting points to get me higher up the listings. The flight price was the best I could get though.
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[Nostromo]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Matt
I'm a member of Wexas with whom I get discounted airfares.
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Matt, my wife is a member of Wexas too and I have used Expedia on other routes. But when we asked them for quotes to Orlando in May last year (before I became a member of the OV forums), neither was nearly as good as the quotes that I eventually got through these forums.

But getting back to Lindajo's 'problem' I am beginning to understand. In fact, I had exactly the same problem myself last year; When I tired to book flights through the OV links, Roger Parry kindly put me onto Charter Travel, whose quotes for the flights were certainly the best that I had until then. But while Charter did not exactly insist that I book the Car Hire with them, they sort of 'made me understand' that it was the normal thing to do so. This I did, but a few weeks later learnt to my embarassment that Charter were not supposed to sell Car Hire to visitors directed to them by OVF. I felt really bad about it, but it was too late to change it by then. [msnembarrased][msnembarrased]