Lasminute.com secret holidays review

Lastminute.com have added secret holidays to the secret hotels we have reviewed a couple of times when booking the secret hotel in Madrid and secret hotel in Amsterdam.

In the case of secret holidays Lastminute do not give out the flight times or the hotel name until you have booked - and in some cases you won't find out the hotel until you arrive at the resort airport. This is similar to the "allocation on arrival" deals offered by tour operators such as Thomson.

Here is a couple of tips specific to the Lastminute.com secret holidays :

1) You can actually find out which tour operator you will be booked with ! Within the holiday description, towards the bottom there is some information about the holiday being ATOL bonded. They supply the ATOL number so simply click on that and you get to see in a pop up which tour operator is running the holiday. This should help you match up flight times if not likely hotels. In the holidays we looked at, a turkey holiday was operated by Fleetway Travel, a holiday to Spain by Sun 4 U, and an Egypt holiday by Peltours.

2) This varies case by case, but there are examples where the secret holiday really isn't so secret, first a sub resort is given then there is a full hotel description so it's just a case of matching that up with holidays from a normal (non secret) holiday search.



Whether this holiday type is for you just "depends". Don't book this type of holiday of you have mobility problems or if you have any specific requirements such as ground floor room, high floor room, etc. Lastminute.com are giving you the star rating and board basis so there shouldn't be too many problems there.