When booking a holiday you can either purchase a complete package that includes your flights, accommodation, catering and occasionally travel insurance or you can arrange all of these things separately yourself.

If you go to a travel agent they will first discuss holiday requirements with you and budget and then they will show you a few ideas before discussing current offers with you. The benefit of this is that it is hassle free, you can get everything arrange in one go by one company without any messing around, however with any sort of convenience based product you will be paying a premium for that service.

Arranging the components of the holiday yourself will probably end up saving you money but it can be quite time consuming however you will end up getting more for your money.

Now it may be that you’d still rather pay a little more to take all the stress out of planning a holiday but either way it’s worth shopping around.