Flying club discount on Virgin Holidays - same prices as web

Hi,

Has anyone used or would you know if the flying club telephone bookings offering a 7% discount on virgin holidays give you the same price as the virgin holidays website minus 7% or is their start price higher to negate the offered discount?

Also, I presume you still earn full tier points and mileage through virgin holiday bookings?

Thanks in advance.

[mitchja]

Not sure about the first question sorry, but in answer to your second one, yes you earn the standard miles and TP's on all VS flights booked via VHols.

When we booked for this year, we found the flying club discount booked through a VH retail store gave us around the same price as booking on the web with online discounts.

You also don't get the full 7% discount on all holidays, it depends on destination, time of year going etc.

We priced for Vegas May 2016, and we were only offered 3%.... It was 3% less than on-line price though.
We actually ended up going over to the dark side and booking with BA, was slightly cheaper (approx £200) but flight times (connecting flights from Newcastle) were better. Until a domestic flight between Newcastle and Gatwick is re-introduced, I'm afraid Gatwick is out of the question for us, shame as I like Gatwick. Yes I know that Manchester an option but really trying to avoid the 3 hour drive after being on a night flight...

You also don't get the full 7% discount on all holidays, it depends on destination, time of year going etc.

We priced for Vegas May 2016, and we were only offered 3%.... It was 3% less than on-line price though.
We actually ended up going over to the dark side and booking with BA, was slightly cheaper (approx £200) but flight times (connecting flights from Newcastle) were better. Until a domestic flight between Newcastle and Gatwick is re-introduced, I'm afraid Gatwick is out of the question for us, shame as I like Gatwick. Yes I know that Manchester an option but really trying to avoid the 3 hour drive after being on a night flight...

Maybe not relevant, but me and el missus actually went into a Virgin Holidays store, and they happened to be having a promotion that weekend. Pricing was pretty good - not only on the holiday, but also on all the attraction tickets booked. Ended up saving 10% across the board (and yes, that included a v-room booking made five months later).

I share your pain though - wanted to fly from Glasgow (near) or Newcastle (nice airport), but the price hikes for both were "unpleasant" in the case of the latter and "astronomical" for the former - even the "redcoat" doing the booking was shocked. End of the day, we just resigned ourselves to a 4-5 hour drive down to Manchester (hotel overnight) and then the same back (minus the hotel). Just hope it's better than last time we did Manchester-Florida, came back to blizzards. :o

I always price up the holiday online and then phone to check the FC discounted price. It usually works out slightly cheaper than the online price, plus I found it easier to add requests to the booking whilst on the phone.

Last time I booked accommodation only with VH online and then rang up to add a reuqest the woman on the end of the phone didn't speak very good english and couldn't understand what I was asking for (repeat guest at hotel, room on high floor, not diffficult!)

Calling up with FC discount worked out marginally cheaper for us too. The starting point was different, because the online prices include an online booking discount of some sort, and also the 7% discount only applies to the elements that are not taxes.

I tried to book on the VH website. It's a shocking site, very difficult to use.

Bit of an old thread to dig up.

Bit of an old thread to dig up.

How dare you dig Up old threads billy , tut tut