Holiday Truths www.holidayforums.co.uk

It used to be a good site until a few years ago when it was sold to two guys. The former is the owner of an online travel agency, the latter works for a travel agency too. They claim to be independent. Don't voice your opinion on their website, else you will get a rude response from the owner and get kicked out. Rather ironic that when asking your members for opinions about hotels/resorts, you are not given the opportunity to voice your opinion about Holidaytruths.

Stay well clear. Much better out there!

Car park Waitrose customers only.£1 per hour Two set down places for travellers. Bad signage. No useful information at reception.Nearest car park 400yards away.

Room extreme Spartan conditions. One plastic chair. Double bed with engineering brick mattress. Absolutely no give. Waitrose early morning deliveries make an early call pointless. High priced ,stale boxed breakfast. No sleep, considered sleeping in the car.

Economy hotel?? Yes, but this was ridiculous. Cancelled second night ran for home.

the hawaii hotel palmanova.the entertainment manager hates children one when we were there he tol the children to go up stairs to the main door and that hanna montana was coming it was just to getthe kids away from the bar and a other time he tol a mother with a baby that started cyring he said over the microphone can you switch it off.the bingo you win a drink voucher for a drink at the bar big deal in a alliclusive hotelone night a boy age about 6 won it the entertainment manager told him it wouldget his whole family to disneyland and he olsotold me my 11 year old son was a pain not the way you expect staff to talk to you.

holidaytruths.co.uk is not a review site, it's mostly a discussion board used by people in the UK looking for advice. It doesn't attempt to compete with Tripadvisor on recommendations but doesn't get as confusing as Tripadvisor when people from other countries add suggestions that aren't relevant (or accurate) to the question.

Software uses an American auto censor that stops you using certain words to avoid legal action - unfortunately the one that gets blocked most is con , even if used in air-con !! Administrators check posts for obvious infiltration by travel companies and they are shown up when possible.

People with genuine problems get serious advice but anyone making a mountain out of a molehill will be told that! Threads are sometimes allowed to run on long past their sell by dates.

Lyme Bay Holidays website DO NOT USE they hide their terms and conditions and only expose limited information via FAQ's which hide the truth. They make you responsible for paying for the whole holiday if you cancel, yet do not clearly give you that information. Read the FAQ's and you think its simple, try & cancel and they come out with loads! They didn't advertise the holiday for re-sale for 3 weeks + and then claimed a website error!!! but still want the money. Reported to Trading Standards

Holidaytruths presents as an independent ,consumer orientated site. However this is not the case. It is just another sales driven site. Loaded with advertizing. Grossly over moderated ,keeps genuing gripes out. Main contributors are mainly Travel trade people. Look at the profiles, Blatant or what !! The mildest complaint or critisim of any of their advertizers brings several cruising mods at once to attack you, both in mod form and posing as genuine posts (check the syntax and grammar similarities in many of the posts,). The apparent owner of the site is heavily involved in the advertizing of travel trade related services both in the UK and Portugal. The travel trade has become very aware of the negative impact on their sales by review sites, and countering these has become a major problem. Thus the setting up of dozens of so called independant review sites. Post a complaint or two and duck. However good for a laugh and some harmless entertainment. But don't take it too seriously.

I just wanted to let people know about the wonderful experience we had booking a Golden Triangle trip in India through the company Caper Travel. During the booking process we were in constant contact by email with an allotted agent, so he became a friend! We were able to choose exactly how our holiday was to run and all queries were answered immediately and fully and so our anxieties about going to a different country were totally laid to rest. One of the most worrying was passing money over in advance, but we can assure you that all was safe and the holiday very well managed and became an experience to remember forever.

So thank you to Caper Travel and all involved

lousy site if your face dont fit they ban you.

worst site of its kind

I would not use this site again.

Rude people.

Have found two or three other sites with better imformation.

Holidaywatchdog

Tripadviser

Holiday Truths is okay but there are far better review sites with more up to date information (Trip Advisor) is the best one.

Very clique - some moderators don't like people to have opinions.

If they don't like your replies, some can ban you from posting.