Oh yeah....travel fairs do not necessary guarantee you the best deals. Booking early will assure you of that. It is disgusting to see that most people i saw.....always enquire about free gifts whenever I do my booking at the travel agency. C'mon man.....are travel agencies a luggage departmental store or electronic store? These gifts are exclusively for travel fairs and subject to availability. If dun have dun have la.....why complain over it when all the luggages you had collected over the years were to end up in your storeroom and collect dust anyways???

Bugging and bugging for discounts is another disgusting behaviour. You think this is a fish market?? When you want to travel, just pay....I am by no means a rich traveller. I make sure I saved enough to go for my trips. It helps that my passion is travelling and thats why I get to go around the globe on my meagre salary. There's a certain valuation of each destination you wish to travel to. So....do you think that with $2000, you can cover Europe?? Do you also think that you can cover USA with $3000? Can....budget accommodations lor....other airlines lor other than Singapore Airlines. Who to blame but yourself if you dun enjoy your holiday be it because of price/tour guide/tour pace/hotels/airlines.

Chinese saying......"Yi Fen Qian, Yi Fen Huo" One price....one product/service. There is no guarantee whatsoever too if you had one good travel experience with a particular agency. You may encounter a bad experience with the same agency the next time round. So all in all.....it is how you look at things....your attitude, your upbringing....your intellect.

Heard from a friend that they may be facing financial problems. Dunno how true, but I wonder if they can deliver their packages

We booked a free and easy trip to Taiwan and Hongkong with Chan Brothers Travel at their own Travel Fair some time before NATAS. We asked their agent repeatedly if my Filippino maid needs a visa to enter both countries. The agent was very confident that she didn't need a visa and even printed the exclusion clause on the invoice. Eventually my husband and I with kids ages 7 and 2 and the maid landed in Taipei on 20th Dec only to have my maid sent back by Taiwan authorities because they said she needed a visa. Needless to say there was a lot of undue stress because she had to fly back to Singapore alone via Hongkong. She was also made to wait in transit at Hongkong International Airport. As the flights were full, she was put on waiting list failing which she will have to check herself into a hotel. Imagine the fear for a person who has never been out of her small village. My family has no dinner till 10pm because we were desperately trying to keep track of our maid's whereabouts. Our maid was also not allowed to even take her luggage so we had to drag her lugggage along with ours and our 2 young children. We have decided never to book tours with Chan Brothers Travel again. So much for being a public-listed, award-winning agency.