Well, brochures are another thing that's going to shortly pass into history, along with the BT phone book and the thousand page Argos catalogue. Would you REALLY pay brochure price? And with no Trip Advisor reviews to go on? Only time I'd imagine anybody under the age of about eighty goes into...
I'm so old I can remember the days when you used to have to go into Thomsons or Lunn Poly on the high street and they'd present you with about three pages of clunky Teletext if you wanted to go to, say, the Med in August and that was your lot to choose from. Unsurprisingly cost a blooming...
Another vote for Travel Republic. Have used them to book very decent hotel deals in the bast with no problems. Be very wary of booking the flight element through them though. Don't know if the situation has changed recently, but they went through a phase of selling you low-cost airline flights...