This could well be the case, I have been looking at a holiday with Thomas Cook for next June (not exactly a last minute late booking ) and the standard baggage allowance is only 15Kg, you have to pay an extra £30 per couple to make it up to 20 Kg

yes TC started that this year thats why i have stoped considdering them

wizard

Wizard

I booked with thomas cook for next year because they were a minimum £600 cheaper than cosmos and the rest were £1000 or over. Its worth considering them if the price is right, and I paid the £15 per person for the 5KG luggage allowance. Wasn't going to but we only went away for a week this and we would of been right on the 15KG limit and next year we are going for 2 weeks and be taking more clothes for the extra week.

thomson offering 20kg on all holidays no matter how close to travel.

just ask my friend and she confirmed this.

Has anyone any idea when Thomsons discount codes will be available, is it usually just after Christmas. I used codes last year for holidays and saved £50 on both, but a few days later spotted codes that would of saved me even more !!!

Have just flown with Thomsons to Tunisia (flight only from Gatwick) and it was a total of 25 kg, which could be made up of 20kg hold and 5kg hand luggage or 15/10. I've got a flight booked with Thomas Cook for next February through Travel Republic and didn't realise it was with that airline until I'd completed the booking as they didn't used to fly to Monastir from Stansted. The 15 kg will be a bit of a nuisance as the weather there is so variable at that time of year but I'm certainly not going to pay extra so will probably travel looking rather like the Michellin Man

I've been looking at Thomson for summer 2008 too.

Kiltman-Graham wrote

I have been looking at a holiday with Thomas Cook for next June (not exactly a last minute late booking ) and the standard baggage allowance is only 15Kg, you have to pay an extra £30 per couple to make it up to 20 Kg

Yes, Thomson's still allow you a total of 25kg luggage.....but I spotted that free coach transfers aren't included any more..........
and surprise surprise..............they are £30 per couple

(I haven't been on this thread for a while, so I'll scroll back and have a look...I'd be interested to see any posts about the lack of in-flight meals and entertainment nowadays on thomsonfly )

As requested £50 disc on min £500 spend code 00000691

found on hotukdeals.co.uk website.

I've tried it on their website and it seems to work.

Bigbear

Booked to the Canaries with Thomson's in November. Free transport to our accomodation, 25 kgs of luggage and £12 each for in flight meals

Well I must admit when I've been looking again recently, the free coach transfers are included again

I'm sure my eyes weren't deceiving me the other week though

This week I have made several attempts to book a holiday on line but kept getting an error when wanting to pay.
Today I phoned Thomsons and the booking was done by an extremely pleasant lady at the same price as on line. (Praise where it is due!)

I paid £824 for a full package for 14 days to Benidorm.
If I had booked DIY (Flight + Hotel + Transfers) the Total: £902.96
This is using the same flight,Hotel and Transfers.
Sue

Thomson have reduced the price of their holidays. I saw my holiday with 4 adults and 1 child reduced from £4200 to £3200 plus with the use of a £100 discount vouche code no.0001897 valid to 28 Dec with minimum spend of £750 makes it even cheaper. I booked with thomas cook and the thomson prices are about the same as I paid.

Portland have reduced their prices as well

I think you have to be careful with giving out 'blanket' type information that Thomson have reduced the price of their holidays.

This post made me check a few holidays that I priced a couple of weeks ago mainly to Fuerteventura and various Red Sea resorts (Dahab, El Gouna, Sharm).

They may have reduced the price of some holidays, for whatever reasons (slow bookings, promoting certain resorts etc), but without exception all the ones I checked were now more expensive.

Also checked Portland and it was the same story.

How frustrated am i! have been trying to book 2 weeks in Mexico with Thomson and had a bit of a mare! My G/f and i live in the canaries and tried to book via thomson website the holiday, wouldnt except my security code on my card, so we phoned the call centre went through the whole process and get to the end having explained that we also wanted to book flights to and from Gran Canria roughly totalling a bill of about 3500 quid only for her to say they cant except my postcode and i need a UK card to book, its mastercard so really whats the problem? asked girl for suggestions (i heard her shrug her shoulders..lol) nothing, emailed Thomson, a week ago, no reply. So i booked direct with riu (which is cheaper by 200quid if you do it in spanish!) and sorted flights via an agent over here. Considering the number of "issues" i see raised about tour operators the mind boggles how ANY of them are still going!

Hi, Looking at flying to Tenerife with ThomsonFly. The meal is coming up at £14 per person!! Any comments on if the food is worth it or would you recommend saving the money?

Thanks

I'd keep your £14 if I was you - we flew with Thomson to Ibiza (first time we've used Thomson) in August and the meals were disgusting. The lettuce in my salad was brown and some people had mouldy bread rolls Spend your money on a meal at the airport instead.

I agree, use the £14 to eat at the airport. Thomson meals are awful in my experience.

Sarah

We have flown with Thomson for last 2 years to Ibiza and found the meals to be fine.
2007 was really nice.
Suppose its pot luck................if i were you though I would use the money for some sarnies or something/

I've just returned from the East Midlands to Alicante trip and I booked the holiday as far back as February 2007 for Christmas 2007.
As we were staying in a hotel on the airport Xmas eve, my hubby convinced me to book 2 meals because we didn't know whether the hotel restaurant would be open or not being xmas eve and as it turned out, there was no restaurant in the Holiday Inn, they don't do meals, only continental breakfast.
Although breakfast was included in my booking, we planned on leaving before 4am when the "restaurant" opened, so we thought we might be very hungry, mid flight.

How can anyone disintegrate a tomato.? the breakfast was a mini omelette filled with bits of bacon, a small very spicy sausage and small pieces of cooked potato chunks...the supposedly tomato had been overcooked into a pulp and was black.

Coming back, it was even worse and I could have thrown up.
A small carton of cuis cuis,(spel?) that just looked like a carton of bird seed, chicken pomodorma or summat like that, which was basically 2 minute pieces of processed chicken on top of a pasta/tomato slop, followed by some sickly dark chocolate, synthetic cream sweet.
I (we) ate a few mouthfuls of the pasta concoction, the bread roll and the piece of cheese only.
What a complete waste of money and whoever is planning these meals, should try auditioning for Ready, Steady, Cook....or get in line at their local job centre because I wouldn't give them a job cooking porridge for boy scouts.
£7 for a Thomson meal.? they'd have to pay me to just open the carton in future.

I gave them the benefit of the doubt after a flight last year and I will never buy another Thomson meal.....I promise you that.!

I've just priced up the exact identical holiday for Christmas 2008, with the exception of no meals, which should mean I should be £28 better off.
The hotel in question has just had a "mini face lift", this was still taking place while we were there at Xmas...nothing major, just cosmetic changes.
Thomson must be having a tin bath (laugh) if they think I'm going to pay nearly £300 more for walking on laminated floors instead of tiles.

Their price has gone from £1,048.50 to £1,334.00...take off another £100 using a discount code as I did to reach the price £1,048.50 and this still makes the holiday £1,234.00.

No way.!

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