As per earlier posts I am looking for flights to China for later in the year. I am pretty sure I know the exact route/timings we want to take.
Booking with the KLM website it comes out at one price, while on the phone to TrailFinders the price is about an extra €80. In terms of the cost of the entire holiday that €80 is not a significant %.
I have heard good things and bad things about Trailfinders, including getting shunted around from Trailfinders to the airline and back again when looking to change ticket details. Also, it appears that it is only necessary to put a deposit on with Trailfinders whereas the airline is looking for the full cost up front. I have also noticed on various airline websites that you can't do things like online check-in for agent issued fares, so I guess that would be the same as for Trailfinders.
Does anyone have a view on whether the extra €80 might be money well spent for the comfort of dealing with an agent if things need to change later on, or whether it's better to have the €80 in my pocket and just go with the airline fare ?
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Booking with the KLM website it comes out at one price, while on the phone to TrailFinders the price is about an extra €80. In terms of the cost of the entire holiday that €80 is not a significant %.
I have heard good things and bad things about Trailfinders, including getting shunted around from Trailfinders to the airline and back again when looking to change ticket details. Also, it appears that it is only necessary to put a deposit on with Trailfinders whereas the airline is looking for the full cost up front. I have also noticed on various airline websites that you can't do things like online check-in for agent issued fares, so I guess that would be the same as for Trailfinders.
Does anyone have a view on whether the extra €80 might be money well spent for the comfort of dealing with an agent if things need to change later on, or whether it's better to have the €80 in my pocket and just go with the airline fare ?
z