Which is better: the latest offerings or early booking
Travels / / December 19, 2019
Layfhaker understands what the permit profitable, safer and more convenient for tourists.
Tours can be bought for a couple of weeks prior to departure, and then they will be sold at the usual price. But you can save if you pay attention to last minute tours and early booking.
Usually considered burning tours with departure in a week or a couple of days - they are sold cheaply. And early booking - is to buy vouchers for one or more months prior to departure, and it is also the tour operators give a discount.
We compared these tours and find out who will approach last minute deals, and who will be more profitable and more convenient to buy vouchers in advance.
Price difference
The difference in cost is almost there: and the latest offerings, and for early bookings take off about 30-40% of the price. Sometimes come across the last minute tours at a discount of 50 or 80%, but this is very rare and count on them not worth it.
In both cases, the discount does not mean that you are selling low-quality tour. Prices on
last minute vouchers reduced because they did not buy, and if no one will fly even at half price, the airline, hotel and tour operator will lose money. And it manages to offset the costs.At an early booking discount is another reason. Usually people take the tours in advance in low season on a high. During the low season, hotels and tour operators sit without money to cover expenses, selling vouchers cheaper. A profit will be available in high season, when people are snapping up tours, and no discount.
The price difference is almost there, if you do not accidentally snip off extremely profitable tour. But early booking have a slight advantage: it protects from exchange rate fluctuations. If the dollar or the euro skaknut up, the price of the purchased ticket will not change.
Convenience
Early booking is much more convenient: you can choose the resort, the date, departure airport and the hotel. And, you can take a few rooms next to or even remove the floor of the hotel and settle a large family or company.
With a burning tour we have to take what they give. The hotel can be mediocre, date - uncomfortable, and the airport will have to get twice as long. Fly in the company at all difficult: the last minute tours usually sell for two, for a family with a maximum of one child.
Early booking gives baboutlshy choice and lets fly on your terms. For large companies it is generally the only way to relax together.
The selection of countries
With a burning tour usually have to fly to visa-free countries or wherever you already have a visa: draw up the documents for the week just will not work. And if you are traveling for the first time and you do not have even a passport, then go get Lastminute except in Abkhazia or Belarus to start up with a Russian passport.
When you book a tour in advance, you have the time to issue and collect all documents, make a visa, to put the necessary vaccinations and slowly collect things. So it is not necessary to take a ticket to Turkey or Vietnam - you can fly anywhere in Europe and in Goa or in China.
The choice of countries for early booking more broadly, not limited to visa-free. And time for charges and preliminary acquaintance with the place you will have more.
Reliability
With early booking is always a small risk associated. In just a few months, the travel agency can bust, Cast some volcano and the hotel suddenly cease to receive tourists. Such force majeure are rare, and usually good company prescribed in the contract of guarantee, but still there is some chance of losing money or return the full amount of the tour, but left without a holiday. Something can happen in your life, and for the cancellation are often prescribed heavy fines, so that you will return only part of the sum.
With Lastminute situation better. A week is unlikely to happen something terrible, so you're bound to have a rest.
Lastminute offers almost 100% guarantee that you will fly on holiday.
What to choose
Tour if:
- you do not care where to go;
- you already have a passport or the necessary visas;
- you are not sure of the travel agency 100%, do not know exactly when you will leave, and how to change your life in the next few months;
- you travel together or with one child;
- you're ready to break into a sudden trip.
Early booking if:
- you want to fly to a particular resort in a particular hotel, but not enough, they give;
- it's your first trip;
- you are assured of the reliability of travel agencies and their plans;
- you are traveling in a large group;
- You want to slowly draw up the documents, collect things, learn more about the country of destination.
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