Book now or wait a few months

Hello

Went to the Neptune Hotel 18 months ago Mercury direct(Mail on Sunday offer) in July for £599 each for two weeks all inclusive. To book the same holiday now for the same time with Mercury direct they want £1176.00 each. Does anyone know if the prices come down with Mercury nearer the time of departure or should I book it now. Just seems a steep pice increase.

Many thanks

Joanne

Book now or wait a few months

Hi Joanne

I don%26#39;t know where you are getting that price from for July this year, i saw an advert in last weekends papers for Neptune with Mercry Direct, and yes it was ';BOGOF'; (buy one get one free), the price quoted for July was £965 pp., June is £599.00 pp, and August is £989 pp.

Actually, i scanned the advert and sent it via e-mail to the hotel%26#39;s Regional Area Manager, along with ads for Ramada Resort ans Brown%26#39;s Beach too, so still have them on PC.

I am not sure what will happen in next few months, but what i do know is that bookings are well down on this time last year, i guess the ecconomic situation at present will not help anyone at this time, least of all holiday companies.

Incidentally, the booking ref for that advert was: GDNP7M9 , so may be call them rather then visit thier website, which does seem a lttle out of date right now.

Regards

Dave

Book now or wait a few months

Hi Dave

I saw that advert too and phoned them up and quoted that reference number but low and behold the dates I wanted in July( I gave 8 dates that i could fly) were not available, flights were fully booked but I could fly with Emirates and that was the quote I got £1176.00 per person.

Thanks

Joanne

Hi Joanne

Mercury Direct have also very recently added Kingfisher Airlines to their flight schedules with a reduction in price of around £150 pp, maybe try them again and mention that ?

The hotel itself at this time is no where near full for July, or indeed May,June or August either, just the opposite now that First Choice have pulled out.

Hmmm, just noticed that you are from Liverpool, so Kingfisher is out for you, they only fly from Heathrow.

Regards

Dave

Hi Joanne we booked with Mecury direct about 9 months ago , we got three weeks at the Neptune flying with Emirates for just over £1000 each i did barter the price down which i think was £1249 each but they were advertising £999 for two weeks with the third free for February but they said that was flying from London only but when i said that will be ok we will fly from London (for 500 quid difference)they still couldnt do it for the quoted £999 after much negotating we agreed on £1079 each flying from Manchester going on tuesday so not long to go now!!!!!

hello, I saw what Dave wrote about Kingfisher. I went to Sri Lanka with cosmos last year and stayed at the Club Palm (just up from the neptune). It cos £1250 each and the hotel was nothing special. This year we have booked a private bungalow on the beach which is just next to the Riverina and are using Kingfisher. I had a look at the best ways to travel down to heathrow (as I am also from Liverpool) and it works out at just under £70 return for a flight to heathrow from manchester. So thats not bad, I see what Dave says, but if your holiday is cheap enough thats a bargain!

enjoy!

Mina

Thank you all for your quick response. I think I will wait a few more weeks and then book.

Regards

Joanne

Hi Quirky

After all the trouble we had with first Choice, we booked with mercury direct for May (same dates and hotel that we wanted). For 2 weeks All inclusive in sri lanka (Dolphin Hotel) with 2 night stop over in Dubai on return journey, it has cost us £1717.00 for 2. With FC it cost £1658 with no stopover. With FC we had to travel to gatwick.Now we fly from Manchester. We have saved on parking the car and the fuel to get to Gatwick and also the drive down and back.

So for us it is cheap we just went on the website and then rang.

Lois