A little research online will help you save a lot of money when planning your vacation. When planning your vacation with any travel agent, you will definitely pay much more than the actual cost. A few years ago, online booking was not very popular, but now there are many secure transaction methods that attract more consumers to online booking.
However, booking online is a tedious job, you need to do a lot of research, but when you are on a budget, it is well worth it. There are several sites that offer numerous offers to reserve the desired hotel and each hotel will have different cancellation policies. Consumers should read all the terms and conditions before deciding on a particular hotel. Even airfares are much cheaper when booked online and prices vary every day. There are certain days when airfares are available at a very cheap price. So start planning your trips three months before the actual date and you will have plenty of time to get all the cheap deals. The other advantage of booking online is that we can choose the area of the hotel and the type of hotel in which you would like to stay. Travel agents do not offer you such options.
I planned my honeymoon just 15 days before my travel date, and yet I was able to save a lot of money. We plan a 10 day trip to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur with 60,000Rs. I booked the hotels through hotels.com. There was a small problem with the hotel in Penang and our rooms were not booked, but the problem was immediately resolved when we called customer service. There were no other problems than that little one. We were able to visit all the places at our own pace. It was more like a relaxing vacation rather than scheduled tours that start at 8am and continue into the evening. The tourist agent turns the vacation into a training camp. I felt Singapore was quite expensive when it came to food but luckily our hotel was located near a food court which worked best for us because my husband hates experimenting with food and luckily there was an Indian counter there and he was flying from Singapore to Malaysia. In Air Asia it was also very cheap.
I know a couple who loves to travel. They often use Agoda.com to book their tickets. When you book through Agoda.com you get points for the amount you spend, those points gave them a free stay for two nights in Bangkok. There are also other sites that offer many deals on rooms. When you travel out of season, you can save even more money. There are deals where room rates are reduced to half the price and you stay two nights and get the third free. Airfares will also be quite reasonable. I would prefer to obtain my visa through a travel agent. It may be cheaper if you do it yourself, but it is a huge hassle to get the necessary documents and rush to different locations.
Consumers also feel that sightseeing will be a problem if they plan their vacations online, but there are plenty of options for that too. There are locals who can show you around. Each hotel will have a tour desk and will be organized according to your time. The scheduled tourist activities will continue every day.
Online booking has its pros and cons. It is a long process to search online for various places to stay. It is a very tedious process of comparing and selecting. When we book at discounted rates, there is always a catch. There is no cancellation and the full amount is wasted if there is any plan change. Therefore, consumers should be very sure of the dates of the holidays when we book online. There is no possibility to change travel dates. So read the conditions before booking the rooms or tickets. Being in an unfamiliar country, it is very difficult to fix things if something goes wrong. But when you travel through the agent, you will not have any problems, since they have everything organized, from when they pick us up at the airport until they drop us back. So, there are certain consumers who want to travel safely and have everything arranged on a scheduled basis and do not mind spending a little more.
