I wouldn't book with anyone else (travelbag.co.uk)

Member Name: andy2407

Product:	travelbag.co.uk
Date:	21/07/07 (342 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good service, Good staff, EXCELLENT holiday

Disadvantages: none

For the past three years my partner and i have booked our holidays through Travel bag, the service we have received has always been first class, the staff are all very knowledgeable on the destinations, speaking to them about the places we wanted to visit made us want to go there even more.
The first holiday we booked with Travel Bag was a Month in Australia, we had our own ideas on what we wanted to do so arranged an appointment with one of the representatives in their Winchester shop, we spent nearly four hours talking, arranging and booking our holiday, and i have to say the time just flew past,
we ended up with return flights to Australia, with a 1 night stop in malaysia on the way out, Internal flights in Australia, various hotels dotted around Oz for varying lengths of time, (you can also booked tours with travel Bag before going which we did) we'd also booked a stop over on the return Journey to England just to brake up the long flight a bit, on the stop over on the way to Australia we stayed at the airport hotel in Malaysia, you have to remember though this was not England so the hotel was not at all like the rubbish, dodgy airport hotels here, no this is a 4/5 star, marbled floor, yes sir no sir hotel, which at the beginning we felt slightly uncomfortable because dressed in trekky shoes and trousers carrying backpacks seemed some what wrong for this plush looking hotel, however we were treated exactly the same as their first class travelling clients, the staff and service were excellent and would go out of their way to help, we were led to our room by concierge which turned out to be one of the most comfortable rooms we've stayed in, clean,spacious and with a great shower, that night we ventured down to the hotel bar, which had photos covering the walls of Formula one stars, it turns out this is where the F1 teams stay when in Malaysia for the grand prix, you must be getting some idea of what a nice hotel this is, and to top it all off only cost about £30 for the ROOM, excellent value, thanks to Travel Bag.
The next morning we continued our journey to Australia flying into Sydney early evening, this i might add is a great time to arrive certainly helps with ridding jet lag quickly (assuming that is like us you have pre-booked some where to stay for at least the first night), arrive at the airport, transfer to hotel, beer and then bed, that way you can wake the next day having had a good nights sleep and hopefully getting yourself into to the Ozzie time pattern, just need to make sure when you book your flights you know what time your likely to land.(if you've never had jet lag before, it feels like going up and down in a lift - constantly)
we stayed in Sydney for a few days, doing the usual stuff, Harbour bridge, opera house, the Rocks etc....when in Sydney make sure you get a chance to do a bridge climb, which you can pre book with Travel Bag prior to going,
We moved on from Sydney to another hotel we booked with Travel bag in the red centre, we'd also booked a sunset and sunrise tour of Uluru (ayers rock), this is a fantastic experience but i would suggest spreading the tours out a bit, we only had planned on staying there for one night so was probably a bit much to do in the time we had,
The next day we picked up an internal flight to Cairns and transferred to Port Douglas about an hour north, here we had planned on staying for about five nights then transferring to the airport to collect a hire car (again this was all arranged by Travel Bag), however on the first night disaster struck, we had lost all of our travellers cheques, £1600s worth - Doh. however a few phone calls and a couple of days later we had managed to arrange for them to be re-issued, nightmare over.
we'd pre booked a barrier reef tour with Travel Bag and enjoyed a days snorkelling on and swimming, looking at amazing fish and coral.
we moved on travelling down the east coast in our hire car stopping where we wanted to when we wanted to, all in time to meet our return flight booked out of Brisbane, we had arranged a beach stop over on the return journey in langkawi (malaysian island), this is a fanstatic way to brake up a long haul flight and an ideal time to reflect on our recent experiences and what a good job the Travel bag consultant had done to ensure we had a fantastic time away.
Since our first Travel bag experience we have booked and been to Borneo and Thailand, both of these holidays have also been out of this world I wouldn't book with anyone else and look forward to using Travel Bag again and again.

Summary: for all your holiday needs book with Travel Bag