Holiday Gems Reviews

Name: Holiday Gems
Address: Unit 14, Telford Court,, Chestergates Business Park, Dunkirk, Chester, Cheshire West and Chester
Rating: 4.61

4.6 Rating 2,783 Reviews

91 %

of reviewers recommend Holiday Gems

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4.6

Based on 2,783 reviews

Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods	Postal Service
Average Delivery Time	Next Day
On-time Delivery	97%
Customer Service
Communication Channels	Telephone, Email, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In	Under An Hour
Customer Service	4.6 out of 5

About Holiday Gems:

HolidayGems.co.uk provides a comprehensive range of travel services, including holidays, flights, hotels and other ancillary services. We also specialise in Late Deal holidays.

Our travel specialists work within our three call centre locations in the North West of England and in addition we also have a network of homeworkers both in the UK and throughout Europe.

All of our holidays are ATOL protected (ATOL 11461) for consumer financial security.

HolidayGems offers an independent and impartial travel service tailored to our customer’s needs. Whether you are planning a trip in the UK or to the other side of the world, our professional travel service will cater for every need.

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Holiday Gems 5 star review on 6th November 2024

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“Very smooth transaction”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Sameer was excellent at shorting our booking, flights, luggage and upgrade with the resort. Very friendly, helpful and courteous. Highly recommend him and appreciate him dealing with my case.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Samirwas fantastic in helping us change our booking, answered all our questions and was just really nice to speak to. I will definitely be using holiday gems again to book future packages.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Excellent from start to finish”

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Posted 1 year ago

“SO EASY TO BOOK HOLIDAYS FOR SOME ONE NOT VERY GOOD ON A COMPUTER”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Friendly, Efficient and helpful.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Great service, after I had booked 3 rooms, an hour’ afterwards I had a phone call, the man was very helpful and answered my questions, he said he would try and get 3 rooms close together, very easy to book”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Prices competitive and booking process easy to follow. Unfortunately, we belived we had booked 2 flights and rooms, as we were travelling with friends, however the next day they received notification that their booking had not been honoured due to only one room available at the price booked. There was nothing to say only 1 room available at the price, and in fact they could have a room, but £200 more! Ended up flying a day later than us from a different airport! Put a real damper on the holiday... 😞”

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Posted 1 year ago

Ms Woods we are pleased that our process is easy and prices appealing. However, we regret you feel our service regarding the actual booking warrants this review based upon your friends experience. Your bookings were made individually, and our website specifically says if larger groups want to be sure of sufficient availability for any flights/hotels they should call our call centre. This would be the intention for anyone in the circumstances you mention. You would have all ticked independently to accept the terms and conditions and we are sorry this was overlooked. Our website states that you are making an offer to purchase the Package Holiday selected and if it is available at the price it is confirmed. This appears to have been the case for your booking which we are pleased could be the case and whilst we sympathise with the situation encountered for the other party, we have no control over the availability of flights or hotels which are affected by supply and demand. In accordance with out terms where we cannot provide the offer, customers are given the next available supplier price and can chose whether to accept or not. It seems that your friends did and we hope that your holiday together is not marred by this misunderstanding.

Posted 1 year ago

“Really disappointing. No way to check if luggage is included and then find out its an extra £420 on top. Paid my deposit and was given a final balance date in May. I received an email the day after making my booking to say I was late on payment and it all needed paying off immediately! Absolutely shocking.”

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Posted 1 year ago

Mrs Endicott we are sorry to hear this and receive such a low review from you. Our booking terms and conditions that you accepted when making your booking online on our website do state about luggage - ''Optional extras are not included in any of the Package Holidays we advertise or sell (unless otherwise stated). For example, checked baggage, meals, refreshments, extra leg room, priority boarding, pre-allocated seating may need to be added at extra cost at the time of booking or will be payable at the airport or on-board the aircraft. In many cases optional extras will be limited and are at the discretion of the airline concerned. Please enquire at the time of booking for details of optional extras.'' We are therefore similarly disappointed that you did not make enquiry before proceeding to book. Turning to the balance payment, these are system generated and of course can be incorrect or erroneous therefore we would have expected that you contact our customer service team to query any discrepancy so it could be looked into for you. We do not see that this occurred so we had no opportunity to address and resolve it perhaps differently.

Posted 1 year ago

“Great company to deal with.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Prices increased due to flights however Sameer did his best to ensure we got the best deal”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Thankyou great customer service”

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Posted 1 year ago

“We had problems with the booking due to prices increasing the day after we booked. The agent contacted us and was very helpful and even arranged a discount.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Very good communication, good prices.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Thanks Sameer. Great help this morning when i forgot to add baggage on for the outgoing flights. Quickly rectified it for us.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“It was a good price beat the rest would recommend”

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Posted 1 year ago

“They changed the price after I made my booking they called me the second day and upend the price not really happy.”

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Posted 1 year ago

Hello, many thanks Mr Abdullah for your review and we’re sorry you feel we did not meet expectations. Firstly and in order to explain, whilst our booking system relies on live feeds from our suppliers, brokers and airlines we are unfortunately not in control of momentary price changes, fluctuations or changes in availability provided by the same and whilst the vast majority of bookings will be confirmed without issue, we, along with many other well-known Tour Operators in the market cannot be held responsible whereby these changes affect our ability to confirm travel arrangements. In your case we can see this is exactly what happened. When you make a booking with us and prior to the point of actually confirming the arrangements for you, we “ring fence” the amount from your payment method although, and critically, we do not debit your payment type and it is only held within your account until the point of us confirming your chosen arrangement and ourselves obtaining the relevant confirmation codes from our suppliers, brokers and airlines. Should we not be able to confirm your arrangements, your order is assigned to one of our sales agents who will then investigate and try their utmost to provide you with identical or near-matched arrangements and we will offer this to you. It is then up to yourself to proceed or not, with the new arrangements. If you do not wish to proceed, we cancel your order down and release the “ring fence” amount for you. We also note in your case, you decided to proceed with the alternative and your payment type was therefore debited. Please note, our sales agent will always try to obtain the same, similar or cheaper pricing for any alternative arrangements found however, this may not be possible as once again, we are simply not in control of pricing, yield changes and availability of our suppliers, brokers and airlines. At all times, we work within strict company guidelines and always with your interests at heart. We would also like to mention that further details of the aforementioned are listed throughout the website in our Terms and Conditions to which you duly ticked when you made your online order with us. In closing, we hope the above explanation and facts helps you understand the situation which gave you cause to issue a negative review and on balance, once you have had time to digest the above, we would appreciate any amendment you could make to your review which would then be reflective of the promised service level and experience you had with us.

Posted 1 year ago

“Very helpful and pleasant throughout in dealing with my holiday booking no complaints whatsoever thank you 👍”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Hi Our holiday was excellent. The all inclusive hotel was great. Range of restaurants, the beach, evening entertainment, helpful reception staff. Room was excellent; the maid service was excellent.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Quick and efficient way of booking a budget holiday from a wide variety of choices and destinations.”

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Posted 1 year ago

Holiday Gems is rated 4.6 based on 2,783 reviews