Consumer travel issues – Single supplements

Posted Monday, May 11th, 2009 at 7:23 am 2 Comments »

We get many requests for single rooms from our customers, and to be honest its a bit of a minefield.

Its embarrassing to tell someone that holiday company A, want to charge you an extra £300 in single supplements, for a single room.

We are still looking for Supplement free single person holidays, however try almost free single supplements .

Which is why we recommend Single travelers to book a self package deal, by booking the hotel or self catering and the flight separately.

That way you pay for the room without any single supplements. Click here for self package deals.

Hotels should offer more single rooms

Its time hoteliers and apartment realised that, there are millions of potential single travelers in the UK alone, and although there are so called single person tour operators they are a total rip off..

Sever lack of choice

We have on very rare occasions found a single person deal with a tour operator at no extra cost, but they are very few and far between.. Solo travelers are a bit like families with children.

There are times where its cheaper to charge the children as adults to remove the under occupancy on so called free child paces.

Until tour operators realise that charging single supplements is a rather large no no, then they will continue to do so..

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2 Responses to “Consumer travel issues – Single supplements”

  1. Suzie says:

    Single supplements are just about profit for the holiday company. I am looking a booking a holiday at the moment to the USA and if I book flights and 2 rooms in a hotel for 3 people is is only £60 cheaper than booking flights and 2 rooms for 4 people! It’s like they are saying the flight and flight tax is just £60!!!

  2. Jane says:

    Hello

    I agree with your sentiment entirely single supplements are a disgrace in this day and age, after all a seat on a plane and a hotel room are just that…

    I am considering make a petition for number 10, would you mind linking to it, on this emotive travel issue.

    Regards

    Jane

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