Travelup - any experience of booking with them?

[arieliwish]

Hi all, still hunting for flights for 25 aug - 8 sep next year and have found on skyscanner KLM flights Manchester - Atlanta - Orlando return for £442 pp. There are two booking links one to Travelup which I've nevere heard of, and this gives the total for 4 as £1765. The other link is to KLM site but they show the same flights as £2200 !

Is there a catch to Travelup? The price seems too good to be true. Any views on KLM also?

Ta.

 

[wayneg]

I think you will find its not available at that price if you click thru to buy. I had a quick look and its saying £ 489.99 but won't let me book at that price, it says they can't be booked, go back and select another flight.

I don't like Skyscanner as it does that a lot. It caches recent lower prices rather than doing live searches.

I find Kayak a better search engine usually.

Cheapest I can see for your dates just now are with Travelocity.com $1,451.18 for 2 adults = £453pp at $1.60/£1 using a fee free credit card. They are over £500 on their co.uk site.

 

[arieliwish]

Thank you so much for that Wayne, I'm hovering on the booking button as I'm doubtful I'd get them much cheaper from the prices I've seen mentioned on the boards. I had budgeted around £2000 so if they come in just above £1800 then I'd be happy with that. Plus it would be peace of mind that I had them booked.

I've booked OKW with free DDP through wdtc so could I call them to add these flights on to my booking or would they have to quote whatever the price is through Delta direct?

About to have a long discussion with DH before deciding!

 

[wayneg]

I've booked OKW with free DDP through wdtc so could I call them to add these flights on to my booking or would they have to quote whatever the price is through Delta direct?

About to have a long discussion with DH before deciding!

Never booked my flights with WDTC, always book them myself elsewhere so no idea how they work.

 

[arieliwish]

Thanks again Wayne.

 

[arieliwish]

I took the plunge and booked through travelocity.com and got 4 adult flights with Delta, 25 aug 2013 and returning 8 Sept with one change in Atlanta, for $2902.36 - i'll have to see what that works out at when it appears on the credit card statement but it should be around £1800. It wouldn't let me pay with my Visa Debit card for some reason so had to use my mastercard.

 

[wayneg]

Great news. If its a fee free mastercard(Post Office) then it will work out around £1,806. If you have a card with high fees (2.95%) then it will be around £1,861.
One year I booked, flights, cruise, hotels all in $'s plus spending money, totalled over $20,000, Post Office card saved me around £400.

 

[arieliwish]

The flights are now on our online cc statement and show 4 x 456.25 for flights plus 28.07 Travelocity payment. A total of £1,853.07. There are no other cc fees showing but I'll have to wait until end of statement month to see it any get added on.

I'm more than happy with under £500 pp price, thanks again Wayne for pointing me in the right direction !