Travel Republic

We have just arranged a seven-day holiday in Funchal Madeira through Travel Republic. I found them on line and then wrapped things up on the telephone and hope that this account will be useful concerning my reasons for choosing an agency, and the experience of booking through this particular one A friend of ours had a good stay in Madeira and, while on the spot, she kindly selected hotels which seemed suitable for the three of us. Upon her return she brought up the possibility of a joint holiday and I guessed that it might rest there. However, after a seemly interval, she presented my wife ... more

I booked all of my holiday online after searching through quite a few travel companies, and online companies and this seemed to be the cheapest I had found, so I decided to use these, I had used an online operator before so I felt that I should be safe with these too. I did worry a little though as I had booked it quite a few months in advance and so much can happen in a few months like the company going bankrupt. I never had to talk to anyone on the phone or deal with customer services, as all the booking is done online. To start with I had to enter the date I wanted to fly, how long for and ... more

I have recently booked a holiday to Turkey with Travel Republic. I found the online booking much easier than sitting in a travel agents for over 3 hours (as I have before) or wasting time on the phone while the rep tries to sell you a completely different holiay to the one you want! I received my documents within 5 days, and all was fine. I then decided that we should have a bit of luxury and tried to upgrade our seats. I logged a service request on the website, and got a prompt response that I needed to do this directly with the carrier. The phone number was supplied, so I got on the phone ... more

*This whole debacle has crippled us emotionally* (Please Read and leave comments) I booked a holiday with this company in December 2008 for the Christmas break, unfortunately my trip turned out to be a disaster, on my return i complained to travel republic, it took the company a month to realise that they could not open the email attachment i had sent them, however on each occasion i rang the company, the staff told me that the complaint was being processed, anyway i resent my complaint and waited another 30 days to receive responses from travel republics suppliers (As travel republic is only ... more

Please please DO NOT BOOK A HOLIDAY WITH TRAVEL REPUBLIC. I am writing this because we’ve been through hell and I genuinely don’t want anyone else to experience what we have because of this awful company. I have been fighting for 5 months, trying to get compensation to no avail. We booked with TR due to them being the only travel company to have the particular hotel we wanted. We now no they didn’t have this hotel, but however, decided to take our money for it anyway. We only found out that we weren’t booked into the hotel 15 HOURS BEFORE WE FLEW, due to me emailing the hotel direct to order a ... more