When is the best time to buy a tour? Don't forget the general principles. Price statistics for tours to Turkey by months

To travel as often as possible, you need to be able to find the best prices for tours, flights and hotels. Pro independent search I have already written about tickets and the choice of a hotel more than once, but I have not yet talked about vouchers. Today I will give out all the services and sites where I look for cheap tours, and tell you how you can save money on a vacation organized by a tour operator.

How to look for cheap tours?

When going on vacation, I always consider both options - and independent travel, and the purchase of the tour. From Siberia, it is cheaper and more convenient to get to many places by tour (although this limits you in choosing a hotel and rest period). At the same time, I do not trust the choice of the country, resort and even the hotel to a travel agent - I select everything exclusively on my own and very carefully. To do this, I have several sites in my bookmarks, special mailing lists come to the mail, and an application is installed on my phone. As soon as the next trip appears in the plans, I begin to study all the offers in all services, and in the end I find the perfect one.

Subscribe to all newsletters in advance, even if you have not yet decided on the dates, budget and vacation period
Do not limit yourself to one country - you can have a good rest everywhere, so keep track of all possible resorts
Play with the timing - often a tour for 13 days costs only a few thousand cheaper than 10
Consider neighboring regions - there are no cheap tours from Omsk? See Yekaterinburg or Novosibirsk
In the search, score not only your favorite " All inclusive”, but also “FB” (breakfast, lunch, dinner) or even “HB” (tomorrow + dinner) - with a sufficient difference in price, this option may well pay for itself. In addition, some good hotels in Europe they don't work with all inclusive, so you can miss them
Keep an eye on hotel ratings, but don't get stuck on them - often newer hotels with no rating at all are offered at a good price, and in order to earn a good reputation, they will try to please the first customers. Also check the rating on several sites, and be sure to read negative feedback(often people give low marks completely unreasonably)
Do not discard options with (when you are sent to any hotel of a certain star rating), but do not take risks if the price difference is not high. It is worth traveling around Fortuna only with tour operators with a good reputation, and be prepared for the fact that you may not like the hotel. This a good option for countries where most time you spend outside the hotel
Do not mess with , especially if they offer very low prices.
Sometimes it pays to take the most cheap tour and use it as a ticket, and book the hotel yourself. Just keep in mind that often you need to show yourself to the tour operator so that you are not removed from the return flight. In general, tell the meeting guide at the airport that you are planning to live in another hotel, and he will tell you what to do in this case.
From my experience good prices for vouchers usually come in late April-May and after mid-September-October.
Vouchers often burn in visa countries, so it makes sense to make a Schengen in advance and watch for offers (just keep in mind that if this is your first entry into Europe, you must definitely go to the country that issued the visa). And by the way, you can enter Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania using the Cypriot multivisa, which is done free of charge in just a few days

9 services for finding inexpensive tours

1 Moihottur.ru

Last minute site Moihottur.ru

I want to start from my favorite site - www.moihottur.ru When I have free time, I like to go to it and even just to see what alignment is in this moment at prices for tours in my and neighboring cities. It was on this site that at one time we found our mega for Fortuna, and then a ticket to Dubai for 8000 rubles per person, which we used just as tickets (although according to reviews the hotel was not bad, but it was in Sharjah, and we needed be in Dubai). It is convenient that on this site, in addition to ready-made selections, there is also a search engine with which you can select a ticket according to the desired parameters. That's exactly what we were looking for ours this year. I also want to note a very good support service - I asked a question, they called me back quite quickly, and then they sent several hotel options to the post office according to the parameters I mentioned. At the same time, the service cannot be called intrusive, the girl called back once, but after finding out that we had already purchased the tour elsewhere, she said goodbye to me very nicely.

More hot tours on bankturov.ru

The website Bankturov.ru is similar to Moihottur.ru, but personally it seems to me less convenient and, to be completely honest, less beautiful. Vouchers both sites post about the same, but the price may differ by a couple of thousand. It is convenient that Bankturov.ru has an e-mail newsletter, which allows you to receive all last-minute offers directly to your mail every day.

3 level.travel

Selection and purchase of tours online at level.travel

Now, services for online ordering tours are gaining more and more popularity, thanks to which you do not need to leave your home at all and go to a travel agent. You select a tour on the site and immediately pay for it by card. All Required documents come to your mail. It seems to me that the future belongs to such services, at least for those people who can choose a hotel on their own. But it will take time for the sites to earn a serious enough reputation that you can safely buy tours through them. In the end, it was also once scary to buy air tickets on the Internet on “some obscure sites”.

There are two services in my bookmarks at the moment - and When we were looking for a tour to Rhodes, I noticed that the results on these two sites are different, so I recommend viewing both. Even if you do not dare to buy a ticket online, you can use these services simply as search engines.

4. Mobile application and website Travelata.ru

I recently installed an application for searching and buying on my phone - I used to use their website, but the application is many times more convenient. I love services that are constantly developing and supplementing, while they look stylish and, to be honest, help me find cheap tours. Go and download the application (or use the site - as you are used to).

It is very convenient that the cost of the tour is shown on Travelata immediately with the fuel surcharge (unlike, for example, the same moihottour) - it annoys me wildly when, after loading the tour, its price increases by several thousand due to the surcharge.

And one more nice bonus - a tour in Travelata can be paid for in two payments of 50%. One payment is made when booking the tour and the second - within 3 days from the date of confirmation. Not the biggest delay, of course, but still convenient. I myself have not yet bought tickets through this service, but since I decided to participate in their lottery for 100 rubles and received a 1000 rubles coupon for any tour, I may soon try to buy a tour on Travelata.

5 Sletat.ru application

This is a version for computers, but I like the Sletat.ru app

It was with his help that we found our superb hotel in Rhodes for quite reasonable money, although before that, of course, we had to look at a whole bunch of options. It is convenient that the application is always with you on your phone, and you can poke around in tours at any convenient time. You can sort the results by hotel names and, for example, remove tour operators that you do not want to fly with. Each hotel in the application has a rating and reviews, which is very convenient at the initial stage of selection (later, of course, you need to read reviews on other services). In addition, you can sign up for a tour and if the price for it drops, you will receive a notification on your phone. By the way, this is also true for already purchased vouchers, for example, our friends talked to the tour operator to change their hotel to a more expensive one after the price of the purchased voucher decreased by several thousand rubles.

The main assistant for independent travelers Piratesru.com

Almost everyone subscribed to the site independent travelers, since here several times a day they post the most interesting offers for air tickets and tours. Personally, I really like their air pickups from Moscow and St. Petersburg, but more on that another time. For those who are looking for cheap tours, it is very useful to view publications in the TOURS section. Most of the proposals, of course, are from the capital, but sometimes there are interesting options from other Russian cities.

Not very comfortable professional travel portal tourdom.ru

I have the exchange of the professional tourist portal Tourdom in my bookmarks and occasionally I look at it, but I have never really used it. Here every day information is collected about last-minute and abandoned tours, as well as charter tickets, which can be purchased without paying the hotel. Some tours can be purchased here on the site online.

8 Triphunter.club (Instagram)

All interesting tours and tickets in Triphunter.club profile

I follow these guys on Instagram, and often they replace all of the above resources. Every day on the site and in their own social networks, the cheapest tours (and air tickets) are posted, however, mainly with a departure from Moscow or St. Petersburg. Many offers are taken explicitly from the same Piratesru.com, but if you are most often on Instagram, then subscribing to this profile will be very useful.

9 Instagram

And a few more tours here Uletimru

Travelers Anton and Irina Konstantinov maintain a very useful Instagram account (as well as a Telegram channel). The guys themselves daily look through the promotions of the airline and the offers of tour operators and spread interesting finds. Most of all here, of course, it is air tickets, but tours often slip through, so I highly recommend subscribing.

Bonus

Since I look through all these services every day, my head is torn from a variety of cheap tours and air tickets. I recently realized that I can't keep it to myself and launched an Instagram profile. travel_price.ru. Here I post offers for the inhabitants of the "trans-Urals", and many of them I myself look for especially for my instagram. Subscribe and travel cheap!

Rubles. These are real examples of cheap tours that I found for Last year. Find out where and how to find such last-minute tours.

This guide is two years old. Being an avid traveler and hunter for cheap tours, I have presented my experience and knowledge on search cheap tours. Learn how to relax without spending too much!

Rules for finding and buying the cheapest tours:

1. Buy tours online

Travel agencies on the street sell tours for more than online tour search engines. Last time I bought a ticket at the office of a travel agency back in 2012. Then convenient and reliable online tour search services appeared - now I use only them. I no longer go to the offices of greedy travel agencies - it is more convenient and more profitable to buy tickets on the Internet.

Why are travel agencies more expensive? The reason is the human factor - cunning managers in travel agencies by all possible ways promote the client to buy a more expensive tour package. They fundamentally do not want to sell tours for 5, 10, 20 thousand - a percentage of such transactions is not enough for them, they need more gold!

Where to look for cheap tours online? I use three search engines: , and . All three are reliable and very comfortable. Choose which one you like best.

Install mobile app . Travelata has an excellent application: download it for or and use the current promotional code when buying a tour MobilizeMe- you will receive a discount of 1000 rubles for any tours costing from 50,000 rubles. Valid until August 14, 2018.

How do tour search engines work? They compare prices among 130 popular tour operators and find the cheapest tours. Finding and booking a tour on your own is easy. You see full information on a tour: hotel, flight, meals, reviews of tourists and so on. You choose the tour you like. Got questions? Ask them to the consultant in a chat or by phone. Secure payment online bank card. The tour can also be purchased in installments.

Offices and consultants. All three search engines have offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and others major cities. There is also a hotline support service. So it's easy to interact with them.

Advantages of buying tours online:

Big choice. Compare prices from all tour operators to find the cheapest tour. Compare - save!
Convenient and fast. No need to go to travel agency offices, waste time on the road, waiting and communication. You can find and book a tour in 15-30 minutes at home or at work. When buying last-minute tours, speed is especially important: I found cheap ticket- bought in a couple of clicks, until it disappeared.
Safely. Search engines work only with reliable tour operators. Payment is made using a secure protocol. Eat round the clock service support.
Independence. I recommend looking for and buying tours on your own. So it is more reliable - you know better than any person what exactly you need and at what price. There is no interference from others - there is no possibility to confuse you. In offices, managers are often cunning or simply incompetent.
Documents - immediately. When buying a tour online, all bookings and confirmations will be sent to the mail immediately after payment. In an ordinary agency, employees like to delay issuing documents - we passed, we know.
Reliably. Large online search engines, and with a large customer base and a well-known name, I trust. Tour agencies with colorful names like "Cactus", "Sea of Dreams" or "Marina Travel", scattered along the streets of Russian cities - no.

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2. Be flexible with deadlines and dates

Often we have many restrictions: rigidly fixed vacation days, personal affairs and obligations. However, try to achieve as much freedom as possible in choosing dates - this will save you money.

See different departure days. Vacation starts on Monday and you found a tour for that day for 50 thousand? Check departures on Tuesday or Wednesday - suddenly there are tours for 30 thousand. I encounter this on a regular basis.

Change your rest time. Often (not sometimes, but often!) tours for 7 nights cost cheaper tours for 5 nights, tours for 10 nights are cheaper than tours for 8 and so on. Do not limit yourself - check all the options!

Take a look at the site's price calendar. Often vouchers for 7 nights are cheaper than vouchers for 3 nights:

3. Be flexible in choosing a resort

If you are monogamous, who prefers to go on vacation to the same place every year, then the question of choosing a direction is not worth it for you. For everyone else, I recommend you take a look. different resorts- your chances of buying a cheap tour will increase.

How does direction affect price?

Eat traditionally expensive destinations( , ). There are cheap directions ( , ).
Seasonality plays an important role: it is cheaper to fly to some resorts in summer, to others in winter, and to others in spring or autumn.
There are also random factors. For example, a tour operator sold few tours in one of the directions and decided to lower prices - last-minute tours appear.

Do you want to buy the cheapest tour? See as many directions as you can. Compare not only countries, but also individual resorts of the same country.

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4. Buy tours from Moscow

It is for flights from Moscow that you can find the cheapest tours. competition and advanced system air travel prices are dropping. Sometimes the difference in price compared to other cities is colossal.

What should a non-capital tourist do?

First, check if you can find a cheap tour from your city. Found? Great - take it! If not, then it is worth expanding the geography of departure cities.

See if there are cheap tours from neighboring cities or from Moscow. You can get to the point of departure on your own: by bus, train or plane. Pobeda flies to Moscow from many Russian cities - tickets cost from 1000 rubles. I myself live in the provinces, and I fly from Moscow on vacation.

All situations are different - there is no one solution. Compare prices and decide what is best for you: pay more and fly from your city or save money but spend time on the road to another city.

Look at the examples below. I compared the cost of trips to Cyprus from Moscow and Yekaterinburg. A tour from the capital can be bought much cheaper. If you fly to Moscow on your own, you can save a lot of money.

5. Use Smart Search

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6. Trust fortune

For those who want to buy the cheapest tour, prudent tour operators have come up with the Fortuna system.

How it works? You do not buy a tour to a specific hotel, but only choose its level: 2 stars, 3 stars, and so on. The tour operator himself decides in which hotel of the selected category you will be accommodated. You don't have to be a psychic to guess your future hotel. Just find the cheapest one in the list of options - they will send you there. There is only one exception - the hotel is already full. Then you will be settled in the next one at a low price. Tour operators do not always offer "Fortune": if tours for this system are available, you will see them in the search results.

How much can you save? A tour of "Fortune" usually costs 2-3 thousand rubles cheaper than other tours. Look at the description and reviews for the cheapest hotel in the desired resort. If the hotel suits you, buy a tour of "Fortuna".

Is it worth the risk? My opinion is no. It is better to overpay a little and choose an adequate hotel without surprises. Usually the most cheap hotel has a bad location and many shortcomings. But often does not mean always! If you want to save money and are not too pretentious, then you can go on vacation along Fortuna. Look at reviews of cheap hotels and decide according to the situation.

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7. Book early

Buy a tour in advance or catch a last minute one? This question is asked by many tourists. AND early booking, and buying a tour at the last moment provide an opportunity to save. Each option has its pros and cons.

Early booking. Minus: discounts are usually not as big as when buying last-minute tours. Plus: you can choose any hotel to your taste, relax beautifully and pleasantly. This is a winning option in terms of price - quality ratio.

Hot tours. Buying a tour at the last moment is often very profitable. Pros: big discounts, sometimes vouchers are generally given for a penny. Minus two. Firstly, there is no guarantee that a cheap last minute tour will appear for your destination on the dates you need. At the last moment, prices can either go down or go up. This game is quite exciting. The second drawback is that in the high season everything best hotels are already booked, you will have to choose from second-rate options.

Conclusion. If you need a tour anywhere and as cheaply as possible, catch last-minute tours just before departure. If the quality of rest is a priority, then buy a tour in advance (optimally - 2-3 months in advance). You will receive both an early booking discount and a wide selection of hotels.

See also others about how to travel cheaper and more interesting.

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Tour operators with whom it works (in terms of reliability): Coral Travel, TUI, Tez Tour, Sunmar, AnexTour, Pegas Tourism, NTK-Intourist, Biblio Globus, Mouzenidis Travel, PAC group and others.

Cities, with a departure from which you can pick up a tour: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Ufa, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Perm, Tyumen and many others.

Leisure destinations: Russia (Sochi, Adler, Crimea, Anapa, etc.), Abkhazia, Cyprus, Greece, Thailand, India, Bulgaria, Spain, Italy, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Tunisia, Vietnam, Israel and many others.

Tour Scanner is our special project, which has grown from the heading about last-minute tours into a separate site turscanner.ru. Now Tour Scanner is the best aggregator profitable tours in runet.

The list of the most profitable tours is constantly updated (old ones are corrected and new offers are added). Information about tours is presented in the form short description and links to specific tours on websites online agencies. By clicking on the link, you can find all detailed information about the tour and book it online.

Why Tour Scanner is the best way to buy a profitable tour?

Tour Scanner analyzes the offers of the top three online agencies, comparing them with each other. In turn, these agencies present tours from all major and reliable tour operators in the country: Pegas Touristik (Pegasus), Biblio Globus (Biblio Globus), AnexTour (Anex Tour), Coral Travel (Coral), TUI (Tui), Tez Tour ( Tez Tour), Sunmar (Sanmar), Intourist (Intourist), Mouzenidis Travel (Mouzenidis). Thus, you can be sure that Tour Scanner evaluates the entire range of existing market offers.
Tour Scanner does not depend on agencies or tour operators, which means that all offers are evaluated objectively.
Tour Scanner does not mark up. The price in the Tour Scanner is exactly the same as if you yourself found this tour on the agency's website.
Tour Scanner uses the most modern automated tools for finding profitable tours.
Profitable tours found automatically are additionally evaluated and checked by the editor. Thus, the list is cleared of similar offers, and the proposed tours are not just tours at the lowest price, but really advantageous offers.
The information in the Tour Scanner is short and concise, so you can quickly view all the current offers, without any effort and wasting time looking at various agency sites and communities in social networks.
In Tour Scanner, great attention is paid to the speed of updating publications, and new offers appear here before other resources.
You can subscribe to the Tour Scanner updates in messengers. Thus, you will have an advantage in the speed of obtaining information. This is important if you want to catch a last minute tour. Usually, the time of relevance of burning offers is short, but the prices are as attractive as possible.
All the offers presented in the Tour Scanner can be booked online, and it is very convenient. No need to waste time on long trips to the agency, choosing a hotel without agent pressure is as objective as possible in terms of price-quality and personal preferences.
Tour Scanner has support. If you do not understand something, you can always ask a question through the forms feedback in messengers or in the communities of the LuckyWings project in social networks.

On February 23, Russian tourists will travel to Moscow, Sochi, Prague, St. Petersburg and Istanbul. On the "long" weekend of March 8, the leaders are almost the same: Prague, Sochi, Istanbul. When tourists return, they will book tours for the summer. How profitable is it to buy a trip to the sea six months before the departure date?

Most this summer Russian tourists will go to Turkey. 55% of pre-purchased tours are in this country. Tunisia, Greece, Cyprus and Russia are far behind.

The "early booking" promotion for most tour operators ends on March 31, and the peak of purchases falls on the last two weeks of March. It starts depending on the country at different times: summer rest in Spain you can start booking in November, Turkey starts selling in November-December, Europe - in December-January.

At the start of the promotion, tour operators lure 50% discounts. Now, of course, there are no 50% discounts, and they are not always available even at the very beginning. As the PR director of a large Russian tour operator Larisa Akhanova, among the most profitable countries for buying today: Spain - discounts are 41.5%. Greece - discounts reach 30% and apply to all destinations - Corfu, Crete, Peloponnese, Chalkidiki and Rhodes. In Turkey, you can now save about 45%.

There is another secret: the prices for countries that require a Schengen visa to enter, and these are Greece, Italy, Spain, 3-5 days before departure from tour operators fall sharply down. With such a promotion, you can leave for 4 nights in a "three-ruble note" without food for 15 thousand to Crete for two. Tour operators see that some offer is poorly understood, and reduce prices for it. For destinations where demand is growing, prices rise a week before departure.

Compared to last year, as told CEO Dmitry Malyutin, the average prices for tours to Turkey for the summer of 2017, when purchased before February 10, cost tourists 94 thousand rubles, when purchased before mid-May for June-July this direction cost 87 thousand. With early booking, Greece cost vacationers an average of 81 thousand rubles, and a month and a half before departure - 99 thousand. A tour to Italy, bought before February 10, was sold for 92 thousand, later it cost 94 thousand

The main advantage of early booking is the ability to choose the hotel that you like or that you have already been to before it is sold out. It is possible that its price will not differ much from that offered by travel agencies 2 months before the start of the tour. Let the discount for six months be not too big, but rest in your favorite hotel is guaranteed.

"Early booking - most often these are not cheap tours - for a large family or company," says Alexei Zaretsky, CEO of another large online service for finding and booking tours. "Tourists choose a specific hotel according to certain criteria, good number with sea views. By the summer the most popular and comfortable hotels either filled to capacity, or raise the cost. Therefore, in this situation, early booking, of course, is very beneficial - otherwise you can simply not get to your favorite hotel. However, if we talk about the cheapest tours to inexpensive hotels, then in the summer there are more of them. This option is suitable if tourists don’t care where to go, as long as it’s cheap. " Summer Thailand will cost the cheapest now - an average of 33 thousand rubles per person. But in Thailand in summer the rainy season and low tides.

Cheaply you can relax in late May and early June (prices are reduced immediately after May holidays). If you are not afraid of the cool sea, then you can look at Cyprus and Southern Greece.

When buying a tour for six months, tour operators do not require you to pay the entire cost of the tour at once: 25-50% of the cost must be paid within 5 days after the conclusion of the contract, and the remaining amount can be paid 2 weeks - or for some tour operators a month - before departure. One major disadvantage of early booking is the inability to make changes to travel dates and tourist data. That is, plans cannot be changed in any way. Or buy travel insurance, which significantly increases the cost of the trip.

But, if for some reason the cost of the purchased tour has fallen in price while you were waiting for your vacation, tour operators can return the difference. But only if it is written in the terms of the contract.

Personal experience

Travel agency or independent travel?

If you want to get into a good five-star hotel at a not too space price, then take a closer look at the offers of tour operators. Very often, the price is very different from that offered by booking sites. For example, a good five-star hotel in Rhodes with breakfast and dinner cost three years ago for 8 nights about 40 thousand rubles per person. The same hotel on a popular booking site was offered at three times the price with the same terms and conditions. Still, the discounts that tour operators are entitled to work. And if you book a vacation on your own, take a closer look at the apartments: their price on booking sites is low, and travel agencies hardly sell them. But the rest will be more secluded, breakfast at the time you wish, and less noise from the neighbors. You can save on air tickets if you buy them 5-6 months in advance. At this time, there is still a chance to buy tickets at a promo price - the lowest from which sales start. The number of such tickets is limited, and keep in mind that they cannot be returned without losing the full price. If the departure date is close, then there are usually no promotional tickets, but there are flights for 30,000 for a seat in economy class and 70,000 for a seat in business class.

Where did the "burning" tours go?

There is no concept of "burning" tours as such now. Some time ago, it was possible to save a lot on such tours. But now places in the most popular hotels are sold out in most cases at the early booking stage, especially on peak dates.

"Hot" tours in high season- for example, to Thailand in February or to Turkey in August - does not happen, because the demand for these destinations is too high, and it is unprofitable for tour operators to reduce prices.

Where are Russians going in the summer of 2018 through the "early booking" promotion?

Türkiye - 55%
Tunisia - 9%
Greece - 8%
Cyprus - 5%
Russia - 5%
Spain - 3%
Thailand - 2%
Bulgaria - 2%
UAE - 2%
Italy - 1%
Vietnam - 1%
Dominican Republic - 1%
Czech Republic - 1%
Montenegro - 1%

Are you planning a vacation abroad, but the prices for good propositions- to put it mildly, bite? Especially for you, we have prepared several tricks that allow you to reduce the final score by tourist package. Something that travel agents won't tell you for sure.

Only proven tricks that save your hard earned money.

The article is relevant when choosing popular, "all inclusive" destinations: Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, Dominican Republic, etc. And for those who are used to buying package tours containing: transfer, hotel, flight and insurance.

All-inclusive package is cheaper than usual - how to save money when buying

A complex approach

Oddly enough, but a vacation in hot countries for a couple of weeks is much more profitable to buy a “package” through a travel agency or an online travel service. Independent, step-by-step: booking air tickets, a hotel for accommodation, buying insurance and transfer - justifies itself only if long trips, for a period of one month. Why is that?

The fact is that with the wholesale "purchase" of hotels and tickets for air transportation of passengers, the tour operator receives decent discounts. Of course, in order for tourists to turn to him, and not to start "free swimming", he shares part of the discount with you.

Can everyone see?

To save on a ticket to hot countries, we do not recommend focusing on one tour operator. Much more logical to look for package tours in travel aggregator companies, where offers from all popular travel operators are presented. Every tour. the operator sets its own prices. The difference in the cost of a voucher, including the same items, can reach 30%.

A tour operator is one who organizes tours: establishes contacts with representatives of hotels, air carriers. Most popular examples: TezTour, Biblio Globus, Anex Tour, Pegast touristic.

Travel company - an organization that offers for sale ready-made tours from tour operators. It has its own premium for sold tours to the end consumer. Online travel agencies work exactly on the same principle - they simply collect all the information from all tour operators.

Early = cheaper

To reduce the cost of travel popular destinations Please pay attention to early booking. As a rule, a pre-planned purchase helps to save up to 40% of the cost of the tour + gives you a head start in choosing hotels and rooms.

Early Booking is a program that runs from January to April. You buy much in advance, in the first months of the year, and in return, hotels offer up to 40% discount on the cost of tours scheduled for May-April. Remarkably, travel operators allow you to pay for such tours in installments, without interest and overpayments.

The famous place is worth more

Chain hotels are much more expensive than local ones. Want to save money on an all-inclusive package? Study the websites of small hotels, read reviews on them and make a choice in favor of such accommodation.

Overpayment "for the name" can reach 10-30% under equal conditions of residence and provision of services. You can also see the cost of hotels in the application below.

Right time

The holiday will be just as amazing, but much cheaper if you choose the right dates. The beginning and end of the season: May and September will always be 20-30% cheaper than in the midst of vacations and school holidays.

Do you want to do well? Do it yourself!

But, some correction should be made: before going to the manager, we advise you to independently look at various hotels to choose from. And to do this through a resource in which all tour operators are offered.

Also, if there is no desire to communicate with the manager directly, you can buy a tour online, through any aggregator (the same as booking with a manager, only you select the tour yourself). By the way, sometimes online platforms operate additional discounts, which will not be offered in travel agencies.

The travel agent is not interested in your savings. Perhaps you will find something more profitable?

On any such search engines there is a rating system. All chain or popular hotels will be located higher than non-advanced, economical alternative options. Sometimes, not rated, but very successful offers are not “thrown out” at all in the general search. In this case, it is necessary to put a tick on specific hotels.

Of course, having previously found them on the Internet. This trick will allow you not only to save money on buying a ticket, but also to choose an excellent offer that is not sold at tripartite prices.

Every day counts

If you have already started an independent preliminary search for a hotel, “play around” with the dates. Very often, tours can differ by 2% -5% in value only on whether you fly out a day earlier or later.

Travel agents are too lazy to make such "brute force". And you can win a couple of extra thousand by pressing a couple of buttons.

Dollar $ and its value

Pay attention to the dollar. All trips to hot countries are tied to this currency. If today you pay 57,600 rubles for a ticket worth $1,000, then tomorrow, with a possible fall, you will have to pay only 56,300 rubles. A trifle, but nice, right?

The exchange rate for tomorrow is set after lunch. Is the dollar rising? Buy today? Is it falling? Pay your ticket tomorrow.

What about haggling?

Few people know, but with managers in travel agency you can bargain. Of course, not like in the market in Egypt, but throwing off a couple of thousand rubles from every thousand dollars is quite likely.

They have their own margin on the cost you paid. If the manager is interested in the client and does not want to let him go, he will offer you a discount. They are less willing to bargain during early booking - their benefit is much lower, less cheat on the tour.

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If you missed the possibility of early booking, but you want to save money on your vacation, turn your attention towards last-minute tours. By the way, the best deals can be found in groups social networks major travel agencies in your city.

Unlike typical sites selling holidays, they post “free” canceled tours or really “burning out” vouchers with departure tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

We hope these tricks will help you save at least a small, but pleasant amount of money when buying a ticket to hot country. Do you know of any other features? Maybe you have found other ways to save money? Share your opinions and stories in the comments!