Hi MD is normally booked solid from very early in the season. Youre cheapest option is Thomas Cook, but they are already booked from November til mid/end Feb for Marinha Dourada. First Choice have now included MD in their brochure, although they are more expensive. I would book as soon as possible, you might get a last minute deal, but not for the MD, its one of the most popular hotels in North Goa.
Hope this helps

I checked the prices in January on the internet and for Thomas Cook they came up at £350 each for two weeks from the 8 December. My Boyfriend talked me out of it! I knew I shouldn't have listened and just booked.

I'll try the interenet tonight and I'll call my travel agents tomorrow, to see what price I can find.

TreacleToffee

Someone on this forum told me that the holiday companies monitor the internet interest in their holidays and if there's a lot of interest in a particular weeks they put their prices up, this makes a lot of sense and certainly seems to be true of the dates I was looking at.

Jules

Jules187

Yeah, Ive the same thing with prices going up on the date I was looking at and have found this several times before. Trouble is, I check the prices regularly to see if they're coming down and on First Choice website you can check how many rooms are left at your desired hotel so you know if you really want that hotel, you need to book if there are only a couple of rooms left.

It is true that Travel Agents do up the monitor holidays and if it becomes popular on the internet or by telephone the price will go up. Probably my fault as i'm a regular checker on the interent!

Any way. Thomas Cook are sold out for the dates we wanted in December, Thomson only fly via Birmingham (no good as we are in Manchester), So the only other tour operator available was First Choice. Which I've booked today , we have paid a lot more than £350 each (which I could have booked it for in January) but thats what I get for listening to my boyfriend!

Hi TT glad you got booked Did you book the Marinha Dourada again? (its the best hotel, isnt it). What dates are you going?

I don't know what's going on this year - although I've been told the charter flights have been cut but prices are loads more than normal -I too am paying £200 more than I normally do (not happy!). It's up to you usually early dec eg 1 -5 is cheap then around 16 april for f/o but looking at everything looks like they are being snapped up! up to you = Goa or the Canaries!

Could be all the extra taxes and supplements that have been added. On average there's a £60 departure tax from UK, a £40 fuel surcharge and now a £20 green tax. Some are also charging a security tax. I've also had lots of e mails back from hotels and guesthouses and their prices have rocketed for nexy year . Marinha D want 4000 rupees a night for a single room.......

i booked in may this year for next march with thomas cook for easter and got a really good deal

I think we're going to have to try and get a last minute deal, we can't afford the prices they're charging at the moment. I should have booked when I looked in April but I didn't have the money to pay for it then, so what do you do?!!

Hi Gemma,

Yeah I managed to book the Marinha Dourada, its the only hotel we wanted to go to, after hearing all the horror stories around the pool last year.

I booked from the 3 December 2007 - 18 December 2007 and after haggling managed to get it down to £1300 for two adults. I managed to get the extra 5kgs of luggage and seats sitting together on the plane included in this price.

As an extra treat I also booked the executive lounge at the airport.

I didn't want to chance getting a last minute deal because I would have been so upset if I couldn't get in this hotel.