Any Travel Agents On Here? Little Help?

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

THPP consulting the oracle of NSC which sees all, knows all...

Going to bruv's wedding in September. Its being held a hotel on a Greek island which like all hotels on a Greek island is shut for the Winter. It doesnt have an online booking system.

Need one double room and two single rooms.

A well-known travel site is offering cheap as chips double rooms Half Board for three hundred quid. And single rooms Room Only for six hundred quid. So I've booked the double room. Solely tempted to buy another couple of double rooms to use as single rooms and just make up a fictitious second person for each.

Anybody know if that would work? Or at what point it would come to grief?

Cheers

 

[sten_super]

Apologies if I've misunderstood, but I can't see the issue. You are booking a specific room (i.e. one of their double rooms), it's entirely up to you how many people you choose to stay in it. They simply have a maximum number of people (presumably two) that are allowed to stay in it. I've booked double rooms on numerous occasions when on business trips (as there's been no difference in cost) and just turned up on my lonesome.

 

[Jim D]

Is it £300 per room or per person? A lot of holiday hotels charge extra for single occupancy of a double.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Apologies if I've misunderstood, but I can't see the issue. You are booking a specific room (i.e. one of their double rooms), it's entirely up to you how many people you choose to stay in it. They simply have a maximum number of people (presumably two) that are allowed to stay in it. I've booked double rooms on numerous occasions when on business trips (as there's been no difference in cost) and just turned up on my lonesome.

Same. Except its an online booking form for a double room and it won't accept just one name. And the company's online advisors keep trying to steer me down the 'single room supplement' route. Which makes it outrageously expensive.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Is it £300 per room or per person? A lot of holiday hotels charge extra for single occupancy of a double.

£300 for the double room - as long as you name two people on the booking form. If you try and book just one person for the same room it won't accept the booking and the telephone sales people quote £600 for the same room.

I'm thinking I'll have to wait til the hotel opens in April or May or whatever and try and get some sense out of them direct.

 

[sten_super]

Same. Except its an online booking form for a double room and it won't accept just one name. And the company's online advisors keep trying to steer me down the 'single room supplement' route. Which makes it outrageously expensive.

Oh right. Sounds rather strange. As Jim D says, are you sure it's a per room cost, not per person? Single room supplements normally only apply if you are quoted a per person price, and a single room costs more than half of a double room.

edit: You have answered this above. As I say, very strange. I think you are right in waiting until it is open again and contacting them directly.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Cheers for your help anyways gentlemen!