The easy way to find a late deal (Teletext Holidays)

Member Name: eagle

Product:	Teletext Holidays
Date:	12/07/01 (2378 review reads)
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Advantages: wealth of information, Narrowed down to meet your needs

Disadvantages: search facility needs improving, clipboard facility is annoyingly slow

Hunting for last minute holidays can be a total nightmare with scores of websites from travel agents and tour operators proposing to offer the best deals around. Often what seems like a bargain actually turns out to be a total rip off when you are informed on the phone that the price was based on 12 sharing or has additional late ticket collection fees which bump up the cost.
The itv teletext pages provide a valuable wealth of information from all the major tour operators which enables you to gain access to the best late deals available.
However the only, and major problem with this service was having to sit for ages while the pages scroll round seemingly indefinitely, waiting for the right page to appear.
Thankfully now all this information is available on the web at www.teletextholidays.co.uk. This site enables you to search the database for holidays that fit your individual requirements such as departure dates, airport choice, destination, length of stay etc. and at the touch of a button gives you a list of holidays that meet these needs. Although this search facility does need fine tuning, for example you can't narrow it down to self catering only, or search on the basis of the number of people in your group,this information is displayed on screen so it is much easy to pick out applicable holidays.
The site also contains links to the relevant tour operators homepage so more details can be found out about the accomodation (if it is named) before you call up to book the holiday. Also any known additional charges are displayed so you don't get caught out when you go to book the holiday.
This is a useful site to save time on holiday searching although clearly the potential is there to improve the search facility to make things even easier. Luckily I was able to find a week in Majorca for £149pp in named accomodation. There are bargains out there and they are much easier to find on this site than anything else I have found on the web.

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