Online tourism promotions: invest time or save money

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On occasions when there are national holidays (such as the recently finished Easter for residents of Catalonia due to the La Mona festival ), various emails arrive from travel agencies, tourist portals and airlines, among others, loaded with promotions, discounts, offers and opportunities. The packages can be tempting because of their price; do you let yourself be tempted?


PromotionsLike the prices in the image, many of the special female number data offers or packages are advertised with a “from xxx euros” . And many others, with flights from airports that are not one's city of residence, even if the promotional or advertising email is intended to be personalized.

Given the number of options available when choosing a trip , and not only by destination, but also by the way of finding those tourist services that fit what one is looking for, it is important to keep in mind that money is not the only variable to take into account . When you do the search on the Internet yourself, you have different online tools to make it easier: calendar by price or destination, offers on flexible dates, points that are accumulated if you buy through a certain portal, and others. But it is good to keep in mind that this search takes time, your time .

Comparing prices of two hotels that we don't know can be not so easy, when in addition to the services that the establishments offer, we start to search, analyze and evaluate the comments of guests who stayed there previously. Does the variable of money have the same value now that you have read comments about the hotel you were thinking of staying at? Do you think it is cheap because of the services it offers and the positive comments that others have written? Or have you changed your mind and started a new search?

If we add to the variables of money and time the variable of special dates + promotions, the result can become several hours of trying to get a "deal online" without getting desperate. Once you have chosen the ideal package, don't forget the management fees, or the billing of extra bags, insurance and additional administrative charges. All of this also takes time and more money than we had originally planned to spend. Is the result satisfactory? Well, everything will depend on the time you have invested in the search, the final price paid, the services received and your overall assessment of the experience. So does this mean that perhaps it is not advisable to buy tourist services online? Not at all, it is just good to set, for example, a maximum search time, or a maximum price per service, and always read the purchase and return conditions, so as not to get any surprises.

That said, have you been tempted by the price of a recent promotion? Have you spent time looking for an attractive offer? Have you turned to a travel agent to help you? And finally, have you had any good travel experiences?