Trip Advisor 1/3
Disclaimer:- Don't own them just borrowing!
Episode:- None
Pairing:- Sandra/Gerry
Rating:- T
Achieve:- . /group/new_tricksff/
Summary:- Something in the back of her head was still telling her trusting Brian to advise them on travel websites might be a mistake but she wasn't going to think about it anymore she was going to focus on their fantastic dream holiday and hope the knot in her stomach was wrong.
Author's Note:- Written for Gee's disastrous trip challenge where one or more character goes on a holiday that has a series of disastrous events.
"I'm not sure about this." Sandra sighed looking at the list of details written in the familiar spidery scrawl on the page in front of her.
"Look he no one knows the internet better than he does and he says this is where we should go so I say let's go there and see what they have to say." Gerry replied opening the lap top and waiting for it to boot up.
"Yeah I know but the internet may be his specialist subject worldwide travel is certainly not."
"Well that doesn't mean he doesn't know where to look just because he doesn't travel Esther does sometimes she goes on those little jaunts away with her sister and someone has to plan them I'd lay good odds it's Brian."
"I suppose I just don't know if we should completely trust him can you at least promise me that we'll think about checking some other places too?" Sandra continued as the first website on Brian's list and the brightly coloured beach umbrellas, sunbeds and cocktails briefly reminding her why they were doing this in the first place. Six months of completely dismal London weather combined with horrible cases and general disillusionment with life had prompted them to finally get around to booking two weeks holiday and planning to go somewhere with stunning weather and no need to focus on grime of any description. When Gerry had mentioned it in the office that day Brian had immediately jumped on the fact and come up with a list of what he assured them were the only places worth looking at to book a foreign holiday. Gerry of course thought that it would be a great idea to cut corners by following their friend's advice she though wasn't so sure. Brain was a genius but a very specific type of genius and travel further than a 50 mile radius of his home was not something he did. Ever. Which meant she was dubious about his expertise in showing anyone else how to book a holiday to anywhere or one any website.
"How can you doubt this I mean look at the ratings on this site and the reviews not to mention the prices are amazing you remember how much that travel agent quoted us at lunch time we'd need to have taken out a third mortgage let alone a second one to go on the trips he was quoting." He had a point for a fortnight in a five star all inclusive hotel in any area of Spain a sensible person would want to go to they were quoting thousands. While they were not exactly on the bread line they couldn't afford that sort of money for two weeks and the idea of down grading to self-catering or some crumby 3 star hotel just to fit into their budget didn't appeal at all.
"Ok yeah I'll admit it looks ok what sort of prices are you getting?" Sandra asked her eyes widening slightly as he turned the screen so she could see what he'd been doing and the exact hotel they had fallen in love with that afternoon and were sure was out of their reach filled the screen. "We can't afford that place why are you even looking at it?"
"Correction, we couldn't afford it at the rip off travel agent price, we can by using this site to cut out the middle man." Gerry smiled scrolling down the screen to the price break down with the total for two people sharing on an all-inclusive basis including flights.
"That can't be right Gerry you must have entered something wrong give it to me." Sandra laughed finding it impossible to believe that the price which was almost a third of what they had already been quoted could possibly be right. Entering all the relevant details herself ensuring that she made sure the correct hotel name was in place, the dates they wanted to go, the fact they wanted all-inclusive were all correctly entered then hitting the "find my price" button only to have the price reappear not at the one that he had been quoted but one that was in fact £50 less.
"See! It's minute by minute deals they expire in 20 minutes from the time you're given the price so it's a chance you take if we don't book now and check back again in an hour it might be a little less but it might also be twice as much. What do you think?" Gerry smiled his excitement radiating from him as she briefly considered their options. If they went ahead and booked it then they risked missing a better deal on another site but if what he was saying was right, and it appeared to be, then they could risk more by not taking the deal while it was offered. "Come on Sandra we're not going to get anything better value than that and it's the locations, hotel and flights we wanted what more do you want?"
"Ok, yeah ok let's do it." She smiled handing the laptop back to him as he carried on confirming the booking and putting in the payment details.
"Done let's print it and put it on the fridge it'll be motivation each morning when we're getting up and trying to wake up with our twelfth cup of coffee." Gerry grinned hitting the print button and going upstairs to get the printout from the wireless printer in the study as she glanced at the screen again. She still couldn't believe that it had been so easy. In the space of twenty minutes they'd managed to blow the travel agent's price out of the water, book the holiday, pay for it and get the confirmation and it all seemed too good to be true. Something in the back of her head was still telling her trusting Brian to advise them on travel websites might be a mistake but she wasn't going to think about it anymore she was going to focus on their fantastic dream holiday and hope the knot in her stomach was wrong.
