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Summer 2015 prices

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cheerears · 10/09/2014 20:17

Am I imagining it or are prices for summer 2015 a lot more expensive than summer 2014?

We book this time every year and I'm wincing more than usual. We usually set a budget of £2.5k which I know isn't a lot to some people but I'm finding for a holiday equivalent to the one we had this year we're looking at another £300. Is there a reason for this? Or am I imagining it?

We're only looking at Spain/Greece/turkey/Portugal type places - bog standard resorts, package deals.

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Emjp · 11/09/2014 19:48

I've definitely found this - we've had the same holiday for 3 years and the cost has been broadly the same each year, I've costed it up for August 2015 and it was coming in at around £800 more than last year at £4K which seems pretty excessive for 2 weeks self catering in the Greek Islands!

littlequestion · 11/09/2014 22:14

I found the same. I have booked independently - Monarch flights to Mallorca and an Iberostar hotel . Even allowing for transfers, we are paying the same next year for 9 days as we did for a week this year on a package. Plus the flights are better times too.

There is an early booking discount on Iberostar for the next few days. Look on the Iberostar-eng twitter account and there is an extra 10 per cent off (just click on the link). Never used them before but they look lovely.

Can't believe I have booked for next Aug already, mind!

ChickenFajitaAndNachos · 12/09/2014 09:34

I have found this too. I have teens and need to book 2 rooms so we always pay 4 adult prices but holidays have gone up loads. A nice hotel I went to in corfu 4 years ago which costs us 4k is now 5.8k. That's a big jump. I have been looking at package holidays and booking my own trip but think I have looked at too many now as all the hotels are starting to look the same.

AryaUnderfoot · 12/09/2014 18:29

For the last three years we have booked Thomson/FC holidays on brochure launch date (last Thursday in April for the following year). We usually end up paying about 3000 for 10/11 nights AI in Greece/Turkey/Spain.

We booked in April for next year, and it was 3600 for a similar holiday (11 nights AI for 2 adults, 2 children in August), so a big jump in price. I priced up the holiday that we had last year and it had also gone up by about 600.

Booking on launch day really does save a huge amount of money (if you can book your holidays that far in advance and if you're prepared to book at 5am to guarantee a free child place). Our holiday for next year has gone from 3600 to 4700 since April. At one point Thomson were pricing it at 4900!

I think that the term time fines thing has really hit demand outside school holidays. It's not just foreign holidays either - UK holidays in school holiday time have also gone up in price for next year. I priced up Bluestone for a short break for October half term and it was 1100. The same break a week later was 219!

purple15 · 19/09/2014 18:45

Littlequestion

I have just booked with Iberostar for next August.
We got 20% off, I have just been looking around Twitter. Could I have got an extra 10% OFF. As far as I can see, the extra 10% is for holidays in the next few weeks.
I hate missing out on bargains.

littlequestion · 19/09/2014 22:06

Purple, if you scroll down the iberostar_eng account, the extra 10 per cent off Spanish hotels was posted on 28 Aug. I booked about 10 days ago now so it might not still be valid.

Where are you going? Their hotels look lovely

purple15 · 20/09/2014 12:45

We are going to Iberostar Club cala Barca near Cala d'or.

This year July/August we were in Iberostar Playa De Muro. It was fantastic. It is very expensive and I booked when there was an error on the website not the Iberostar one another holiday site, it should of read £1350 per person, and it read £350 per person.

Where are you going ?

littlequestion · 20/09/2014 22:36

After a lot of dithering I finally chose the Ciudad Blanca. Axhard decision though!

mummymeister · 21/09/2014 12:33

the change to time off in term time rules from Mr Gove are the reason why this year and in all future years, the price of holidays in school holidays will be massively hiked. cramming everyone in to 10 or 12 weeks with the other weeks being empty means companies have to make up in the 10/12 weeks what they have lost in the other 50. simple economics and predicted by lots of people. book early and hunt around seems the only way around it.

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