Check Your Route ! !
Replies: 20 - Last Post: Sep 23, 2012 10:43 AM Last Post By: battybilly
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Check Your Route ! !
I've just been into my local travel agent to compare a few prices with those on-line....I asked for the cheapest fare from Manchester to Tirane.
The guy quoted me £620 return, changing in Istanbul (Ataturk).
Sounded a bit expensive and an odd route, but I said OK.
He asked me if I would be booking there and then. I said I'm gonna have another look at home.
He printed off the details and had been looking at 'Tehran'.
Good job no spend - huh? I'm fast losing faith in GB High Street travel shops.
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Agree with 4. I once went for a quote to San Jose (in Costa Rica) and got one for San Jose ( in California).Edited by: pedro555
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I got a one-way ticket today from Kuala Lumpur to Australia for $95 + $16 bags in the Air Asia sale. No more to pay!9
When I last went to South America our travel agent (who admittedly got us a better price than we could find online) gave us a 27 hour layover in Mexico City without telling us. I assumed it was a 3 hour layover until I checked the day before leaving and had to scramble to find a hostel and get my head around the idea of wandering around this big scary city.10
A colleague of mine was once given by the travel agent a ticket to fly from London to Panama City Florida instead of Panama City Panama. Since he had never heard of Panama City Florida, and he was otherwise weakly informed in relation to geographical and institutional issues in the region, he did not discover the mistake until he had been in Panama City Florida for about 90 minutes, and had taken a taxi from the airport to a hotel of the same name as the one he was booked into in the other place, despite the taxi-driver's strong assertion it was very unlikely an international business traveller could possibly have booked into that hotel, and various other confused telephone calls. Apparently the rather short flight time from Miami and lack of immigration at the airport had not raised any suspicion. To his partial defence, I must point out that Panama uses US$ for money and English is widely spoken there, whereas Spanish is widely spoken in Panama City Florida.
