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2009 !

del949

2007-11-10 17:38:02

Booked for february 2009.
First choice have got Saturday flights from manchester, returning Sunday.
So took the gamble and booked before they all go!

Got to stop looking at holiday as this means we have 3 booked so far!
..........plus the caravan.

We have decided that work is vastly overated and interfers with holidays,
just need to persuade my boss to my point of view

poultonkid

2007-11-10 18:04:05

I like your way of thinking Del.

GoanMad Tony

2007-11-10 18:10:26

Del, was that flight only or package? How much was it?

shirleyV

2007-11-10 18:27:50

good news Del, really good flight with FC I have booked up for Xmas 2008 on the Saturday flight from Manchester, which hotel are you staying in this time?

goldenflipflop

2007-11-11 06:03:18

Bloomin' eck Del....no flies on you!! Better get the visa application done now, you may just get it back in time :lol:

del949

2007-11-11 08:58:38

Del, was that flight only or package? How much was it?

package for 2 adults, two weeks at the Phoenix park, 21st feb cost was £1796 including Premium cabin etc.with First Choice
Which is virtually what we paid for this year
Price it on line and then trawled the travel agents but no one could beat it although travel Hypermarket matched it and threw in free coffee while we booked!
Figured that the Sat flights would sell out quickly.

by the way, anyone looking for a late deal this season might get a good deal as according to the agent the problems with visas have left a lot of holidays unsold :lol:

yummymummy

2007-11-11 16:07:00

thats excellent news del

carolg

2007-11-11 17:04:34

We booked f/c nov08 on the Saturday flights, much better than flying during the week. We are staying at the silver sands and we upgraded our room to Superior for two wks and paid £1386, well pleased with that.

del949

2007-11-11 17:54:18

carol Q, when you say superior rooms do you mean the bungalows.
When i looked I found that the bungalow upgrades made it about the same price as the phoenix park.
in fact if I take off the premium cabin charges (about £400) then we have paid about the same!

carolg

2007-11-11 19:37:42

They are not bungalows they have larger rooms at the silversands that are superior which is for first choice customers, they have aircon, tv's etc, included, We was told by some friends who was there in march this year upgrade to them if we booked there, as we where staying in calungute thought we would have a change next year.Think it worked out about another £84 on top of the normal price.

andy taz

2007-11-12 20:00:08

first choice to the osborne 1/12/2009 £1267 (14 nights)

Gemma33

2007-11-12 20:11:53

Hi Andy is that December 2008? December 2009 seems very far off!

Lozza07

2007-11-13 09:20:40

Just to add about the Silversands superior rooms, we stayed in them in March this year and they were much better than the bungalows, as we met some people and had a look at their bungalow.

P.S. We are staying there again next March.

andy taz

2007-11-13 14:03:18

sorry

01/01/2009

shirleyV

2007-11-13 14:32:18

Would definitely recommend the silversands superior rooms too, we had a look at them last Xmas and they are very superior to the bungalows, infact for Goa they are quite 'plush'

carolg

2007-11-13 18:30:23

So glad we have booked at silversands after hearing about the superior rooms, going to be a long year, but worth the wait

Lozza07 did you go to bono's shack? we was there most of our time when we where there in april, thats how we got to know about silversands,

Lozza07

2007-11-14 09:17:44

Hi Carol,

No we used Lawrencio's shack, which I think is next to Bono's. To be honest it was one of the first shacks we come to on our first day, and then never went anywhere else. The food was good, the shack boys were nice and the toilet was clean!! (also very close to our hotel)

You won't be disappointed with Silversands, although the included breakfast wasn't up to much.

Lx

SUSANSH

2007-11-15 16:20:38

Booked last night! back to the Heritage March 14th 2009

Sue

smudger2

2008-01-12 09:15:08

Re: 2009 !

Hi all
Booked with First Choice from East Midlands for November 2008 and
February 2009 price was good and the airport is much closer for us
Pat :sun2

gramps

2008-01-12 13:08:40

Re: 2009 !

A cautionary note, with the recent consolidation of travel companies there is now effectively only two travel groups in this country. My daughter and family booked two weeks to Turkey for this summer about six months ago with daytime flights from Edinburgh with First Choice. She got a letter two days ago telling her after a review it has been necessary to cancel or reduce flights and she now is on a Thomson night flight from Glasgow take it or leave it ! The same thing could happen with the downturn in Goa bookings. Already Monarch flights pick up from Gatwick and Manchester and if bookings are slow next season, First Choice flights could well be switched to Thomson or vice versa
Alan

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