Wednesday, January 12th, 2011 at 8:20 am
We live some wonderful times. Years ago there were the travel agents who make all the holiday arrangements for us but now from the comfort of our homes we can choose if we will work with a travel agent or if we will use the internet to find better deals.
Finding holiday lets using the internet can be fast and easy. I said can be because some times it can be very time consuming to find the best deal. I remember I have spent a week looking at hundreds offers before I chose one. But it was worth it because I had a great vacation.
The internet changed the way we travel for good. All processes were accelerated. And the travel agents had a choice to disappear or to offer better services. Because you can find and reserve a room online and also you can purchase the bus/train/ plane tickets online the travel agent must make you a better offer. So on the long run we, the consumers have the advantages: we can choose to work with an agent or to find an offer ourselves and we now have better offers.
Another advantage of the internet is that you find the correct price easily. example if you are looking for Cornwall cottages you can go to a price comparison site and see what are the offers.
The risks
Of course, not everything is great because when you book online you see only some images and sometimes they can be misleading. This is why some people choose to work with a travel agent.
But there are many smart sites where you can find reviews and get the truth. You must be able to read between the lines because you will find 5 star reviews along with 1 star ones. Happy and unhappy customs in one place. However there is no problem filtering them: some people are always unhappy no matter how good the products and services are, so ignore their reviews. Also ignore the reviews of the ones who are to happy (optimists see life in pink no matter what). Now after removing the too good to be true and the worst reviews you should have the real experience.
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