http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39121276
Am guessing a certain "person" would be classifying this a Fake News, but am guessing this might be a justifyable cause in the drop in bookings.
I would have thought, or certainly in my experience, the bigger issue in my drop in travel is cost !
After my last visit to the sunshine state in September/October last year, the drop in £ to $, along with the continual increase in "gratuities" which only a few years ago was 10% and is now heading to a minimum of 20% and general price rises in everything from hotel rates to restaurant bills has meant the proposed trip in March will be no more and we will have to wait until our normal May trip and then September.
The difference in costs to previous trips were genuinely jaw dropping.
Unless the £ strengthens back to $1.50 ish, it looks like the previous 3 to 4 trips a year will decrease to 2, possibly 3.
Now I might be in the minority but reading the piece above which suggests bookings for the US "have fallen off a cliff" , im wondering what this might mean for VS who seem to be piling all their eggs into one basket i.e. Transatlantic routes.
Anyone any thoughts on my ramblings
Thanks
David
Am guessing a certain "person" would be classifying this a Fake News, but am guessing this might be a justifyable cause in the drop in bookings.
I would have thought, or certainly in my experience, the bigger issue in my drop in travel is cost !
After my last visit to the sunshine state in September/October last year, the drop in £ to $, along with the continual increase in "gratuities" which only a few years ago was 10% and is now heading to a minimum of 20% and general price rises in everything from hotel rates to restaurant bills has meant the proposed trip in March will be no more and we will have to wait until our normal May trip and then September.
The difference in costs to previous trips were genuinely jaw dropping.
Unless the £ strengthens back to $1.50 ish, it looks like the previous 3 to 4 trips a year will decrease to 2, possibly 3.
Now I might be in the minority but reading the piece above which suggests bookings for the US "have fallen off a cliff" , im wondering what this might mean for VS who seem to be piling all their eggs into one basket i.e. Transatlantic routes.
Anyone any thoughts on my ramblings
Thanks
David