Re: UKNM: Lastminute.com...website or webhype?

[Ian Fenn]

Chris wrote:

 >  >I quite agree.  Even if somebody does love you, what happens if you want

to

 >  >go away on your own for a few days?  Bargainholidays.com does the same

 >  >thing... no single person tariffs.

 >

 > To be fair, that's kind of a travel industry-wide thing tho.


Should web sites not do something different, rather than just copy off-line

businesses?


 > I think

 > you'll find if you go in any high-street travel agent and buy a package

 > holiday, then you'll pay a single-person room supplement.


Yes... but lastminute.com do not publish the single-person supplement. No

doubt, if I sent an e-mail... but why should I need to?


 > The only way

 > around this is to buy the flight and accomodation seperately.


Why should I have to?


 > Good travel sites should flag this up and, perhaps, offer two prices, one

 > based on single occupancy which includes the supplement, but then we'd be

 > living in an ideal world where rivers run with chocolates and databases

and

 > query results are re-designed to accomodate the fact that the person now

 > interrogating them is a 'dumb' user rather than a trained travel agent.


I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying I should accept

second-best?


--

Ian 



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