EasyJet to End the Traditional Package Holiday
By Darren Cronian on Sunday, July 1st, 2007

Interestingly, UK low cost airline, EasyJet has joined up with Hotelopia to offer holidays to European destinations. Initially, I thought oh no, not more confusion for consumers, but it appears, that Easyjetholidays.com is bonded by the Travel Trust Association and offers travel consumers more flexibility.

EasyJet to End the Traditional Package Holiday

I’ve not had a good search through the site, but from first glance, it looks a little pricey with a 7 night break in Venice for £691 per person, but then there’s the added bonus of holiday protection that you’ll receive, something you wouldn’t get if you booked a flight with EasyJet and then booked your own hotel.

It’s not often I say this about holiday booking sites, but this is a nicely designed site, with useful travel content. Click on the ‘Destinations’ tab and you’ll find a map where you can find the routes, click on a route, and it’ll take you to a page providing you with a print out destination guide and a list of hotels.


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6 responses to “EasyJet to End the Traditional Package Holiday”

Darren Cronian | 1 July, 2007 at 5:56 am

Interesting press release

“The death of traditional, inflexible package holidays”

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Nicholas Lee | 2 July, 2007 at 12:22 pm

Darren

Have you seen that the OFT has sent letters to airlines and tour operators threaten with high court action to stop then trading. Unless they included all compulsory charges in there prices by the end of the month.

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Lee Harrison (owner Select World Travel) | 3 July, 2007 at 9:17 am

And Darren perhaps a more in depth article on the difference between TTA and ABTA bonding?

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Darren Cronian | 3 July, 2007 at 12:24 pm

Lee,

Watch this space – that’s all I can say at the moment.

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Rohan | 10 July, 2007 at 1:11 am

Watch what space?

Easyjet holidays, now that’s an interesting concept, I wonder if we’ll see a TV doc about it.

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Jim | 22 July, 2007 at 9:14 am

Im actually quite a fan of what easyJet have done for the cheap flight business, will be interesting to see what they can do for the package holiday market. Easy dont just do flights though, anyone remember the chain of easyCinema’s? Not heard a whole lot about 65p films in a long while.

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