Virgin Pre-reserved list

[oakland600]

Hi there,

I've just booked some flights with Charter Travel for Easter 2006. They said that we would be put on the virgin pre-reserved list which would be reviewed at the end of May to see if the availability and price were still ok.

Has anyone been on this list in previous years and if so what was your experience of it? Did the price go up or did you have to change your departure/arrival dates??

The prices quoted to me to-day were £419 + £85 tax for an adult and £225 + £85 tax for a child. This is from Manchester for a 3 week holiday. When we went 2 years ago the flights cost us around £1300, today it will cost around £1800. Quite a difference. Although last time we did fly with BMI/UA with a stop in Chicago. Does anyone think these prices are ok??

Thanks for your help in advance.

Kind regards.

Ian

 

[cheryl.UK]

Yep, we were on it for our Millennium Holiday (3 years in advance!!) About 2 or 3 weeks before the brochure was released they wrote to us giving us details of the price and the hotels they had available. We didn't get our first choice (or 2nd or 3rd or 4th) but we were about 250th on the list and it was pretty special circumstances.

We did get the exact flights we wanted though which was very important as I'm a teacher and our holidays are NOT flexible in the least.

 

[oakland600]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

It's just the flights we've booked, so hopefully we'll be ok.

Can you remember if the price of the flights stayed the same?

Thanks again.

Regards.

Ian

 

[buzz for boys]

Hi,
we went on the reserved list and was quoted just over 1500 pound when virgin confirmed the price had shot up to 1900 but thats from Gatwick. the main difference in price on ours was the taxes the ticket prices had gone up but not by as much as the tax !!
Not sure if that helps ??

 

[buzz for boys]

Sorry forget to say that we did get the dates we requested !!!

 

[cheryl.UK]

Because we pre booked so far in advance, there were no prices quoted.