Cancellation Holidays Real Deal or Rubbish?

Are cancellation holidays all they’re cracked up to be? Can you really get rock-bottom deals by buying other people’s holiday cancellations? Your dear old TripDad does the dirty work and uncovers the truth. Be sure to read the entire article – we give you the good, the bad, and the ugly of last minute deals & cancellation holidays. Plus we disclose TripDad’s own “BID” system for helping you to make sure you go on the best possible holiday you can and not get too lost and overwhelmed in your search for the best rates! Googling Cancellation Holidays? Buyer Beware! We did a quick bit of googling for “Cancellation Holidays” today and the second search result to come up was a site called “On the Beach” The page we landed on talked a good bit of rubbish about finding a cancellation holiday and then it lures you into their site hoping you’ll perhaps forget that you were looking for a cancellation holiday to begin with! At least they have a “Deal Finder” page – let’s take a look at that, shall we? We doubt their so-called deals have anything at all to do with cancellations and at best it could be just your typical ‘last minute deals’ (which can be quite good if you must travel at the last minute, however if you have a few weeks or more for your holiday, then you’ll want to consider a legitimate cancellation holiday company instead, which I’ll share with you how to do in a moment). TripDad did a bit of comparing between On the Beach and simply booking direct and most of their so-called deals could be actually be matched or beaten by doing about 10 minutes of extra searching on EasyJet and Booking.com. However, we will admit that there were a number of [...] Continue Reading >>

Purple Holidays Yay Or Nay

Purple Holidays – you gotta love them or hate them, that’s the consensus.  In this no holds barred report from TripDad, you will learn all about Purple Holidays and their antics. Purple Holidays Review We took a good hard look at Purple Holidays, and it seems they are actually a Greek company, even though they seem to make themselves out as a UK travel company. Maybe that’s because they are using the Hayes Travel Group’s travel number, K5728, so they probably do have some UK affiliation. Now, what is all this flutter about the best prices you can get on a holiday, and Purple Holidays delivers the best price every time? Is it really true? We scoured the Internet, looking for naysayers and folks that wanted everyone to know the bad news about Purple Holidays, and truth be told, it wasn’t all that bad…especially for a discount travel operator who’s been running for a few years. You see, if you are in the discount travel business, you’re going to get some unhappy people…it’s just the nature of the game! Purple Holidays Ski And what’s this about Purple Holidays Ski? Is it true that Purple Holidays is everything it’s cracked up to be? Well, we looked around for customers of Purple Holidays, and found some clear indications of how good things are. Take for example Holiday Watchdog and one comment they have about Purple Holidays: I have booked with them twice now and been very pleased both times. We just came back from our holiday with them in Sharm and now we are going with them to Crete in June. I have 2 children and they were great in finding us a good all inclusive hotel that my children just adored! The lady i spoke to listened to everything i needed and [...] Continue Reading >>