STA Travel

STA Travel (262 words)
by - written on 17/09/09 (Very useful, 58 readings)
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I quite regularly use STA travel to book flights, they're not always the cheapest but being under 26 and quite flexible with my dates I find they usually offer a pretty good deal. I recently needed to book a one way flight out of China, this is usually pretty tricky, especially if you have no real proof that you're even entering the country in the first place (we flew into eastern Europe and got trains the rest of the way), however STA just got on with things and sorted it out for us. Awesome. Sometimes they display flights which they have no more availability for, which baffles me somewhat. I also find that some of their other products, like trips and ...  Read the complete review

Express Review on STA Travel
by Frustrated Traveller - written on 17/09/09
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We decided to try out STA as we were planning to go to South East Asia onto Japan and finally Australia, and decided that a specialist travel agent would be the best route. However 7 months after starting the hellish process with STA, we have still yet to receive everything we paid for and when we do it has usually been wrong. It all started well as we sat down with an advisor and went through what we wanted to do and after about 1 -2 hours they have constructed an (expensive and conveluted) route for us. However due to the price we decided to look into flight options and managed to get them for almost half the price STA wanted. Furthermore the tours we booked came through wrong, late, missing information and once we had paid they showed very little interest in helping us. Avoid at all costs!!

STA Travel: Youth Trip-off merchants! (199 words)
by - written on 18/05/09 (Useful, 248 readings)
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As a constant traveller and one big on the backpacking market, I could hardly avoid crossing my paths with this giant company. They have branches all over the world, often situated in student and backpacker areas and they claim to offer the best deals for this type of traveller for flights, holidays, insurance and trips. However, they don't. Quite frankly they have all the promise of taylor making you your perfect trip and fail to deliver. Instead they push the hard sale on products such as 'youth guided tours' (think coach trips with more alcohol) and their own brand of rip off insurance. The staff are generally ignorant of anywhere they haven't been ...  Read the complete review

Out-STA nding (423 words)
by - written on 17/05/09 (Useful, 66 readings)
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STA Travel are a great network of agents offering advice and guidance for travellers all over the world! It was my understand from a branch visit in Oxford that to work as an advisor, the requirement was to have travelled three continents. This in my opinion is a very reassuring factor as I would certainly prefer to hand my money over to a consultant who has travelled first hand and can provide me with personal experience and recommendation. The range of products/services on offer is quite vast. Whether you want a land tour of China or a 1 year work visa for Australia, STA Travel can help you! I used them for my 12 month work visa for Australia ...  Read the complete review

STA Travel: Go for the price only! (739 words)
by - written on 31/03/09 (Very useful, 241 readings)
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I have booked a few flights with STA Travel for one simple reason only: they are often the cheapest! This to me has been the only positive about dealing with them and I will explain why. The website When I first booked flights with them, I wanted a multi flight itinerary. I used a feature on their website that allows you to plan your route (and it does not seem to be there anymore, which makes sense and I will explain why in a minute). I made a couple of plans and wrote down the details, which included airlines, flight times and the cost of the whole itinerary. I took these details to my nearest branch (some thirty miles away) as I wanted to ask a ...  Read the complete review