STA Travel (STA Travel)

Member Name: cezzybunny

Product:	STA Travel
Date:	17/09/09 (71 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Some cheap flights, good offers and competitions

Disadvantages: Other trips aren't such good value

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 insurance, aren't hugely cheap. For example, they only sell trek america trips in the USA, when green tortoise tours are much cheaper, and they don't book greyhound tickets for you, which I would find really useful and would be willing to pay a small booking fee for.

There are sometimes some ridiculous offers, over the summer they ran a £10 pom offer, and offered two flights for the price of one. I imagine availability was limited, for the £10 pom one they only had 500 tickets and you needed to have a working holiday visa. Still, great offer if you could get it.

All in all, I find that STA travel offer competitively priced flights, although not those from the budget airlines, and they usully have some good offers or competitions on - well worth a visit to the website!

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