First Choice

...never booked a holiday with First Choice before as I prefer to search the Internet and find the cheapest deals myself, cutting out the shop assistants commission. I first entered the First Choice in Rotherham while looking for a wedding destination for my then Fiance and I; as soon as I walked in I was impressed by the store, the main desks were set out as though they were in a large ship, then had a waiting area made to look like an old 60's dinner ...
...about you're chosen destination. The first few pages on every destination showed a map of the country, gave some brief history to the country, the temperature and rain fall every month and listed activities that you may be interested in. Once past the fact and figures you are displayed with the hotels on offer around each country, each in given it's own 'Sun Rating' which really made no sense to me as there was no information on what they were basing ...

spoilt_little_br 24.09.2009 · Read full review
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...experience I had with my first holiday abroad. ** SEARCHING ** First Choice was easy to search online. There is a section for last minute deals that actually search 3 months ahead. Holiday Search options are Depart date, Fly From Airport, Length of Stay, Number of passengers, Holiday Location, start rating, board type, these options are used to search for exactly the type of holiday you want and are then listed with as close a match as possible ...
...Pre-book your seats on a First Choice Airways flight and check in 90 mins before your flight, instead of the normal 2 hours. This option costs £10 per adults £5 per child. This is not included in the price but if you arrive early at check-in you can be seated together anyway as it is a first come first served basis so unless you kids are extremely young it isn't that necessary. In-Flight Meals are included in the price £10 per adult and £5 per child ...

jackie1969uk 31.01.2006 · Read full review
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We booked with First Choice (Unijet actually, but First Choice represent about 20 companies, including, Unijet as we were soon to find out) because they put the usual selling points in the brochure about the hotel being wonderful and the Reps being the best thing ever invented. They were right on the hotel, they we were wide of the mark with the Reps, so wide that it insulting. Lets begin at the start. We arrived at the Airport as per normal and ...
...Strike. So were told by First Choice it was due to Air Traffic Control restrictions and now by the captain due to the taxi strike. I don’t like lies. Anyway, we get to the Airport, no reps there. Got in the queue and proceeded to queue for 5 hours in the blistering sunshine and soaring temperatures for a taxi. Airtours and Thompson were running around handing out sun cream, hats and water to their customers. We had………..nothing, ...

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...going to go on our first official family holiday. When DS was only 3 months old, we quickly made the decision to go to a Beaches in Jamaica. By the time the trip would arrive, he would be 15 months old. He was born 9 months after our Sandals Royal Caribbean trip and we thought the best place to take our Sandals Baby was to the family Sandals resort. I knew a few things about the Sandals/Beaches resorts since we have been to a few and part of the ...
...price, etc. When compared, First Choice offered a PREMIUM service with more leg room and better in-flight service than the compared airlines of Air Jamaica and Virgin. So, it was based on that, that I began the booking process. ~Price Comparison and Booking~ We used the online site to do all our price comparison and booking, www.firstchoice.co.uk . The online features are easy to use and you can easily add on or take off whatever features you want ...

ukusa 23.08.2007 · Read full review
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...have recieved a reply from First Choice after 3 attempts by me to get them to reply. They didnt even do me the courtesy of replying to all 26 of my complaints, they answered 2 in a very brief manner which was patronising, accused me of not knowing what I had booked ( never mind the fact that we have visited over 60 countries all over the world, some of which most people have never even heard of.) My reply to them copied to ABTA demanded that they ...
...I have travelled with First Choice for the First and Last time this year. We travelled to Venezuela and had a tour of the "Lost World". Firstly their brochure was totally inacurate we booked an Allaego hotel as we know the standards of this group. The hotel wasnt Allegro and according to Allegro never has been. They just trained the Staff. Secondly First Choice are very ecconomical with the truth. They told us the tour had been extended by a day ...

denise.parry 17.10.2001 (02.12.2001) · Read full review
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...travelled to the Maldives with First Choice, and I found it to be a very varied experience. Whilst I found the tour operator themselves to be very mixed in customer service, the airline is of a very good standard for a charter. We booked our holiday back in February, and due to having a few problems I had to deal with the customer services team on a few occasions. Barring a couple of very helpful staff I found them to be rather blasé and not very ...
...to actually know exactly what First Choice was and wasn't able to offer. For example - a couple of weeks prior to the holiday we had the opportunity to upgrade to Premium at a very good price. I was advised on the phone that if we did day before check-in at Gatwick, we would be able to choose our seats, therefore guaranteeing we had a window. However, when I called the day before to check times I was informed this was completely wrong and that seats ...

Stizzy1980 29.06.2006 · Read full review
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...will turn my attention to First Choice. We had booked 7 nights at the Hotel Luz Marina in C’an Pastilla departing 12 May 2001. This hotel is now exclusively First Choice until 2005 for the summer months. We had booked with First Choice because we liked the look of the hotel. We had been impressed with another Marina Balear hotel, the Panorama Marina in Es Cana, Ibiza, in 2000. The location, 10 minutes from the airport was also superb. The ...
...We travelled with First Choice in 1999 to Mallorca. That time we stayed in the superb Prinsotel La Dorada apartments in Alcudia and had encountered no problems. We booked direct with First Choice as I could not find any better discounts elsewhere. Does anybody else wonder why nearly all the travel agents “will not be beaten on price*”? * offer applies only to people carrying brown luggage, wearing cotton slacks, of British origin and ...

LewisK 27.05.2001 · Read full review
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...a holiday to Cyprus with First Choice. Before you book your summer vacation this year, read my story. I was a bit dubious about going as I am prone to deep vein thrombosis. I have a gene missing in my blood which means I cannot sit in one place too long, never can go on a long haul flight, cannot drive too long without regular breaks and I cannot get pregnant without injecting a blood thinning drug. So a holiday for me is big deal. I sought the ...
...of time. I was first aware of DVT during pregnancy. Whilst at work I was sitting in my one position all day in front of the computer. The managers didn’t appreciate staff leaving the terminal too long so walks around the office weren’t strictly allowed. As a result I received a very painful clot to my lower calf and it travelled to my groin within hours. This resulted in me being attached to a heparin drip for two weeks, but this is another story ...

dumples 26.05.2004 · Read full review
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We used First Choice for our holiday to Kenya this year so here is my review of each stage: Booking We booked through a high street travel agents, not knowing what hotel we wanted or dates, just that we wanted to go to Mombasa somewhere at the start of June and preferably from Manchester Airport. When they put it into the computer it came back with a direct flight from Manchester to Mombasa with nights in Whitesands hotel with First Choice. We booked ...
...to the airport, police or first choice but I think 3 and a half hours was a rather unnecessary length of time to be kicking around. The flight We boarded the plane on time and were shown to our seats to a medley of Kylies greatest hits. The seats were a turquoisey leather and looked a bit shabby - the holder with the inflight magazines was hanging off too. Each seat had a private tv screen in with a range of tv shows, films and games on it. After ...

beckle_82 26.07.2007 · Read full review
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...same sort of ‘Not my First Choice’ titles really should tell you something – if only we had seen them before we went on holiday… I’ve been holding off writing this op for a couple of months now, for 2 reasons, the first being that I wanted to give the holiday company, First Choice chance to rectify their mistakes, everyone deserves a little leeway after all. The second is that I needed time to compose myself before I composed this op to prevent ...
...the customer service department at First Choice holidays. As I wasn’t personally involved with the actual booking of the holiday I can’t comment on that. My main focus is how First Choice cope when things go wrong – I think you can guess on this one – they don’t. Last December my dad decided that we would end what had been a very difficult year on a positive note and booked for himself, my brother and his wife and me and my boyfriend to go to Gran ...

lwperkins 04.04.2003 (19.06.2003) · Read full review
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...that's for another review...!) with First Choice. I don't quite know who we booked it through as we went to Thomas Cook which is where we first found out about it (the holiday was with Sunstart, one of First Choice's subsidiaries). However I have a credit card with Barclaycard and they were doing a percentage off of certain hoidays, and fortunately this was one of them. If you have a card yourself and are thinking of booking a holiday, it's definitely ...
...the final holiday was with First Choice. Before we left there were a few hiccups with the booking details such as wrong names, but these were sorted out very quickly and easily by their friendly customer service. We flew from Bristol which is wonderful as it is only a short journey from my home. The booking in was no problem at all, although my boyfriend is tall and the check-in agent said she would seat us in a row with more leg room - it turned ...

Vix_Ricks 09.06.2001 · Read full review
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...was the only one left, First Choice (ironically!) on my way back to the bus station. I just ambled in casually to look at the brochure display when POW! immediately a pushy advisor was at my elbow. I suppose, given that the shop only had one other customer in there at that point, I should have expected it. She immediately asked, "Can I help you? Where were you thinking of going?" My thoughts right at that moment were to say "Home!" but I didn't! ...
...to pick up some brochures". Now, in most shops this would be enough to signal to the assistant that they weren't required. Oh no, not here!! She continued to fish as to where I had already been, where I wanted to go, when, etc etc. I found this almost intimidating as I really had no idea at that point and repeated that I just wanted some brochures. I turned my attention to the brochure shelves - half empty! (or should I say half full??!) The assistant ...

blurbubble 28.03.2001 · Read full review
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...tour company we used was First Choice, no major complaints , but a few little moans along the way. After boarding the plane we got belted up ready for the journey. Gone are the days when they come round with the sweeties for your ears, I don't mean to insert the sweeties in your ears but to suck on them to stop your ears popping. This actually works for me, I once went without any sweets and god did my ears hurt.Now that we never seem to get any ...
...check in and I was first in the queue at reception. The receptionist was going through our details when all of a sudden the rep barged right in front of me and said could I check these people in. really I think we are quite capable of doing that ourselves. But no it wasn't any of the six that got mentioned, it was an invisible couple called Mr and Mrs Monk. She kept going on about a couple under this name and the receptionist said there wasn't ...

belinda9 17.03.2001 · Read full review
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We used First Choice for an all inclusive holiday to Turkey in May 2007. The price was unbeatable and the website was easy to use. TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS I found them polite to talk to on the phone; however, they seemed a little rushed on occasions to get me off the phone due to them being busy but they were always very helpful when dealing with enquiries and I did not have any problems with misinformation etc. OUTBOUND FLIGHT Check in was ...
...people were actually working for First Choice or Dalaman Airport in general. We had a night flight - our flight left at 4.20am and was for 4.5 hours. The lights were on full through the whole flight and we were constantly being interrupted with the tanoy, tea and coffee trolley and the staff trying to sell us stuff on the plane. It should have been obvious that there were people trying to sleep but the staff did not seem to consider this at all. ...

tiffandstevie 30.05.2007 · Read full review
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...family holiday to Florida with First Choice for June 2006. First and foremost, the service in the agency at Bristol Galleries was excellent. I had a pretty good idea as to what I wanted and how much I was prepared to pay (the internet is a wonderful thing) , but they were very patient with my questions and came up with some great suggestions - some of which actually saved me money. Can't fault them. The night before check in at Gatwick is great ...
...in the morning. However, if like us, your travel agent gives you the impression you can leave your hotel and breeze into the airport an hour before take off, this wasnt the case for us. As it was a US flight, we were asked to report at 8am for the 10.30 flight's security checks. (Check in closed 7.30). If you need to take your car to long stay parking via South terminal, this can still make for a pretty early start from the hotel. I'd give the agency ...

allmodcons 07.10.2006 · Read full review
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