2017 holiday prices

Mr Badger

Mr Badger

Mr Badger

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It's that time of year when the summer holiday adverts and offers are upon us promising discounts for booking early. However, looking at package deals for a couple of sunny places we have stayed in recent years the prices seem to have shot up. I thought the fall in the exchange rate since the Brexit vote might have an impact, however in one case they want double what we paid for the same dates in 2016.

Has anyone else noticed big holiday price rises for 2017? I suppose it could be a fluke based on the limited sample of holidays for which I am comparing prices. Or maybe the travel companies are just trying it on hoping that people will believe the advertising hype and book now regardless...
 
Certainly up, and probably biasedly priced now, as when actual brexit is finally declred the pound will tank again, so they are getting their prep in early.
Rooms on hotels.com are affected a bit, but not too badly in many places.
Easyjet took a spanking in profits, so no doubt the various airlines will buffer in case it happens again.

Thx nigel.
 
More companies trying to milk the UK population dry and blame it on the boogie impending Brexit.
 
UTmaniac said:
More companies trying to milk the UK population dry and blame it on the boogie impending Brexit.
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Blame it on the boogie?

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I'm looking at flights to 'Murica in the summer. So far, I've found flights for around £1400 each way. Or £500 plus an extra day's travel each way. I don't blame the boogie though, I blame the alignment of the sun and moon for having a total eclipse in 'Murica instead of over here.
 
robfosters said:
Exactly. That's what's really annoying me about brexit. Businesses are using it as an excuse to extort money from customers.
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The public gave them that excuse.

It is not just scaling to the exchange rate, there is the dominoes effect.

Say 20% drop in exchange rate, then then another 20% drop of bookings due to the exchange rate. They are still paying £ sterling for all the costs which is imported, that difference needed be recouped. That is a lot of money when added together.
 
I just booked Tenerife for January, 1 week 3 people all inclusive £1100.

I wouldn't consider that any more expensive than before. Sure, if you're bboking the most popular resort during the school holidays then you'll be paying through the nose, but wasn't that always the case?

There is no doubt that terror attacks in Turkey, Tunisia and the like have narrowed the market too, so it's inevitable that prices will go up.
 
Oh no, another BRexit is bad derailment..... Lol.

I can imagine it's more difficult to get places to go because after the last few years, anywhere that hasn't had a bullet fired by someone in or hasn't been blown up is automatically a good place as you have less chance of dying so they can charge more......
 
String said:
I just booked Tenerife for January, 1 week 3 people all inclusive £1100.

I wouldn't consider that any more expensive than before. Sure, if you're bboking the most popular resort during the school holidays then you'll be paying through the nose, but wasn't that always the case?

There is no doubt that terror attacks in Turkey, Tunisia and the like have narrowed the market too, so it's inevitable that prices will go up.
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As I mentioned these are the same dates as last year. I also checked for a few weeks each side and the prices don't change by much. If you've just booked for January 2017 then presumably that will be a late deal rather than an early booking discount for a holiday that is 6 months or more away?

Still, having not been to Tenerife, maybe we should give that a look.
 
EC261 compensation will be a huge cause. Forget Brexit that's where a hell of a lot of the airlines profits went this year and it's only going to get a lot higher. Everyone wants a piece of it and everyone will have to shoulder the increased cost to fly.
 
My Uncle and auntie have paid £2700 for 9 days in tenerife, flying tomorrow and returning the 8th of Jan, last year they paid £2100 for the same dates.

We've been looking at tenerife for the end of July and for me alone, all inclusive for 2 weeks is £2000, price depending on what hotel etc..
 
I work in travel, for a company that works in dollars, so the exchange rate has hit the UK office pretty hard, and we need to course-correct to maintain our target growth.

This won't be the case for all companies though, at least not to the same degree.
 
StriderX said:
You're kidding right?

Single tickets can be as low as a tenner for most East Europe destinations.
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So it will have cost him £40 instead of £20 :p

In September we booked a flight + hire car to Croatia in the May half-term, cost us £450 (2 adults, 1 child)

Just quickly checked and the exact same deal is now more than double! (£950)

Obviously some of that is due to how far we booked in advance, but still a big increase...
 
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