HELP - DD First holiday aboard, best tour op for cheap girls holiday this summer?

[Yankydoodledandy]

DD is 18 wants to do a cheap week away in Spain or Greece, prob July.

We've looked at Jet2 and TUI but really expensive - they need something around the £300 mark.

I just thought go with a tour operator so they have a rep there in case anything happens rather than booking travel and acc separately.

Any advice would be great please!

Are they looking at a beach holiday or a city break? I don't find the reps useful at all. If you stay in a hotel, there's a concierge where you can get help.

Can they book through easyjet with hotel included. Not sure you get a rep as such but they tend not to be readily available or useful anyway.

Are they looking for all inclusive or are they going to be paying seperately for food?
Frankly, £300 for a week, in what will be very close to summer holiday time, including flights, is a bit unrealistic.
Also, if they're mature enough to be going away for that length of time unsupervised, then they should be doing their own research

Beach, pool holiday so mainland Spain or Greece etc.

Forgot to add, I've used booking.com, hotels.com, expedia and lastminute.com. They all let you book hotel + flight packages I believe. That will mean it's covered by ABTA.

I think it's whatever comes out cheapest - I cant see them getting up in time for breakfast or wanting to be restricted to meal times but like I say whatever comes out cheapest.

I think they’ll struggle at that price point - everything is extortionate in the summer (presumably school holiday?) months. £300 each for flights and a week’s accommodation is asking a lot.

I’ve previously used Expedia for packages, but honestly nowadays pretty much always just book flights directly through the airline or Skyscanner and then accommodation with lots of good reviews through AirB&B or Last Minute and have never had a problem.

If it's beach, then decide if they want to be all inclusive, half-board or self catering. Then look at the various websites mentioned here and book a flight + hotel package. Then you can see how much you need.

UPDATE
so here is the criteria - they are all looking by the way Im just helping as first time abroad etc.

Before Schools hols so from 1st July
Prob mainland Spain, Greece etc.
Preferably 7 nights but 5, 6 an option
Beach/pool/lots of bars etc.
Boardwise - cheapest option

Look on easyJet holidays. They have a couple in turkey coming up at under 400 pp. Bulgaria is often another cheap option.

The reps on my all girls holiday at 18 were far from useful, they just wanted to sleep with as many guests as possible

Look at LoveHolidays

On the beach is often cheap. Where are they flying from. It'll need to be somewhere EasyJet or Ryanair fly from if they want to keep costs down.

There's really no such thing as a cheap holiday any more. What you're looking for doesn't exist.

I've found Ryanair flights to Palma de Mallorca from Stansted 4-11 July for £80, and hostel accommodation at £210 pp (or hotel at £300pp). It's a short and easy bus ride from the airport to town centre. Would that work?

Thanks for the replies will look at all and yours too@titchy

Where will they need to fly from

Try on the beach...Benidorm looks most likely to be the only place in budget for the criteria. Flights to Greece are expensive now!

Most airports - London, Standstead, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds

Have a look at love holidays

Can they go away in June. problem is it's only before English school hols - NI and Scotland and also lots of Europe will already be on holiday so accommodation is already peak.

Can go from last week June actually so from 26th June

£300 is a tiny budget, they're going to struggle.