Lastminute.com and Travelocity extend last second deal’s booking window

Lastminute.com and Travelocity recently announced the extension of booking window for their popular last second deals, thereby enabling the travellers to make their bookings three weeks in advance. These deals are an excellent option for the travellers who wish to go on a planned getaway and can save them as much as 70 per cent on their bookings. Until this announcement, the travellers only had the option of purchasing last second deals at most two weeks in advance.

Advocating the decision, Noreen Henry, vice president of hotels and packaging, Travelocity, mentioned that in today’s time when travel prices are rising and the choices available to consumers are decreasing, offering such deals to the travellers helps them in fulfilling their travel wishes, despite the present hard economic times.

To give an example, based on the date yesterday, the travellers will have an option to purchase a variety of weekend getaways for August 1, August 8 and August 15 weekends. They would have many options available less than $200 for travel destinations all over the country.

Lastminute.com and Travelocity offer these weekend getaway deals to hundreds of international and domestic travel destinations. One has an option to purchase these deals from three hours to three weeks before the scheduled departure time (5 hours in case of international travel).

Travelocity in beingprides itself in being the travellers best friend, prior and post the trip. Provide the most proactive and comprehensive guarantee of service in the industry. It is considered one of the largest travel companies in the world and did bookings of more than 10 billion US dollars in the year 2007.

Please visit www.lastminute.com and www.travelocity.com for more