The Germans’ Reiselust is unbroken and surprisingly 85 per cent of all package tours book their holiday still classic in the travel agency and only 15 per cent online. On the other hand, online bookings are particularly popular with individual travelers. Flights, train tickets, car rental or hotels are largely based on the airline’s virtual shop counters, hotel chains or Internet travel portals.
How to book the smartest?
However, one thing is common to all journeys: the Internet is the tool for travel preparation par excellence. Whether traveling, evaluation portals or price-cutting machines, the vast majority of trips are usually booked in the classic travel agency only after extensive online research. It is therefore hardly surprising that today hardly any more travel takes place without Internet influence.
Prepare your trip: what travel may it be - flat rate or individual?
When booking travel, there are two things in the foreground: First of all, a trip must meet the expectations as far as possible, so that the most beautiful weeks of the year do not become a fall. And when the price is right, the investment in a trip has paid off for most of the tourists. The art of travel bookings is now to reconcile these two factors.
Here one could say: The one likes the one, the other is on it. In fact, most of the package tours are also easy to compile individually, because they mostly consist of classic approach and accommodation. So whether you book a package tour of the XYZ provider, which consists of a flight to the resort, a bus transfer and a 14-day hotel room, or book these services individually at different providers, is basically a matter of convenience, price and availability >
How to choose the right target?
Travel suppliers buy hotel deals and offer the necessary flights in the package mostly very cheap. Often hotel rooms are still available at the travel agencies, while the website of the hotel announces a "booked". Nevertheless, it may be worthwhile to compile the desired journey individually and to make a price comparison. As a rule, you have much more accommodation and different airlines to choose from, and the bottom line must neither be better nor less expensive.
The endless possibilities of the research are the great plus of the Internet. There is virtually nothing that is not discussed and disputed. For inspiration travel reports are particularly good.
A huge number of beautiful reports from all corners of the world can be found at travelogue.com, umdiewelt.de and in the travel community of the magazine GEO at www.geo.de. If you then know roughly where to go the next trip, look for the sure-to-do holiday forum to the country of your choice. Every country on earth is discussed at reisezielforum.de. Another very busy place to visit on the Internet is travelamigos.de
Whether you book a package holiday or a hotel on your own, you will never decide for an unknown accommodation without having previously been informed about relevant evaluation portals.
Previously you had to rely on the information in the brochure or on the statements of the employee in the travel agency, today, thousands of holidaymakers evaluate their hotel stays with the market leaders holidaycheck.de or tripadvisor.de. Can you rely on the reviews there to 100%? Not necessarily - more in the attention box on the next page. However, if you pay attention to certain points, you also get a reliable result.
So for a hotel at least 20 or more reviews should have been given. More than 10% bad evaluations are always a K.O. criterion. Very short texts or even similar sounding texts, which were posted at short intervals to each other, could be falsified and should ring the alarm bells. Have the "testers" rated other hotels or only one? This could be a reference to a "purchased" rating. In short, read all the reviews and draw your conclusions. In the vast majority of cases, you will be satisfied in the end.
At tripadvisor, not only are hotels searched, found and rated, but also small, private pensions, so-called "bed & breakfasts" and even apartments. However, you are not automatically grouped together but separated, so you may need to search and click on it until you get an overview of your accommodation at the resort.
The web page airbnb.de, which offers private accommodation, has become a real alternative, especially for urban districts. So you get in New York City a nice, clean room with a nice landlord already under 50 euros, while an acceptable hotel room a multiple costs. Holiday homes with reviews are found for example. At tourist-online.de, however the ratings are to be enjoyed with caution because of the comparatively small number.
For or against an airline can speak many things. First of all, you need to know which company is flying to your holiday destination at best, without the need for intermediate landings or even a change of aircraft. For many package travels, however, neither the airline nor the exact flight time is stated during the booking.
How to find the best hotel at the destination?
When you book, make sure that you do not miss a midnight flight, and the stressful holiday begins with stress. Charter companies often travel from smaller airports with more favorable parking facilities, but they are happy to change the route and land somewhere to accommodate a few more holidaymakers. Line companies allow for more and more free baggage and offer a wider choice when departing.
Cruises are in. No wonder, because there are hardly more comfortable travel types and price-oriented they move meanwhile also in moderate regions - at least partly. What is the best time of the year?
What are the alternatives to the classic hotel?
Take a look at kreuzfahrer.de at schiffsbewertungen. De, at kreuzfahrschi -bewertung.de or again at holidaycheck.de under Home / Ships. The criteria for the hotel reviews apply here too: pay attention to a meaningful number of evaluations, which have been given by different evaluators and especially at different times.
Of course, it is convenient to book all the components of a trip in one go and at a booking portal such as expedia or opodo. But would not it be cheaper to search the best web price for all travel components and book it all individually?
Not necessarily. In fact, a test booking trip to New York on Expedia in October, consisting of the hotel, flight and car rental units, resulted in a price that was about 500 Euro lower than for individual booking of all components on different websites at the most favorable single price. Of course, this is not a compulsory rule, but if you know exactly what you want, it can be a good idea to try the all-in-one solution and compare it with cross-vendor search results.
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In addition to the above-mentioned providers are also popular destinations such as travelscout24.de, weg.de, ltur.de or check24.de. Multiple providers offer a low-price guarantee and refund the difference if one finds a booked trip with the same services from the same organizer at another online provider.
However, one must make the favorable offer still on the same day. Since flights and flight times must also be the same, which are often not yet fixed at the time of booking, such a spongy low-price guarantee is certainly to be viewed with skepticism. However, the bottom line is that since most booking pages access the same system (travel agency), the offers are often the same.
A price comparison is, however, advised, but not uncommon. Go to the travel agency with the printed Internet offer. It is quite possible that you pay less or book at the same price in a better room.
You can book a cheap flight at the lowest possible rate because only 95% of all bookings will be made using only two search engines: The meta search engines kayak.com and Skyscanner search and compare prices of all the relevant booking websites and the most affordable offers >
In our tests, the prices found by Skyscanner were mostly cheaper. Here the comparison is absolutely worthwhile. Airfare changes constantly, the algorithm behind it is secret. However, Kayak will award a prize and a percentage of the price of the flight you are looking for.
If you have the nerves, you keep your hopes and save some euros. And what about the airline websites? They were more expensive in our test bookings than the Skyscanner offers.
The packages are also good for hotel bookings good starting stations, but also skyscanner and kayak list hotel rates. At Holidaycheck and Tripadvisor you can book well-rated hotels. It's easy and free!
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Daring with English knowledge can find true bargains at priceline.com (under "name your own price"), but you should work out and on the Internet under tinyurl.com/lyojvm6 necessarily read the instructions.
Kayak, Skyscanner as well as cheap-car-hire-iris.com are the most popular kayak deals. In the past holidayautos.de was always a very recommendable starting point for vehicle booking. Cheap prices, good service and excellent insurance included. After the sale in 2013 to the Irish "Car Trawler" the offer has however changed. The best thing to do is to make a phone call before booking. It is important, however, for every vehicle booking that you take out the highest possible liability insurance in addition to the damage insurance.
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