Lastminute.com

We used lastminute.com to book our flights and hotel for our Amsterdam trip - it was very last minute, and we were happy to find return flights and one nights hotel accommodation for £220.

As I've already mentioned, our flights were great. We were not impressed with our hotel accomodation though, It was (apparently 3 star) HEM Amsterdam hotel, it smelled of stalecigarettess, was fairly stuffy and oppressive - and the decor was left over from the early 80's so everything was rather scuffed and old looking. Breakfast was not included so we shelled out a further 25 Euros for that.

The other complication we had not noticed was that our flight was due to return to Heathrow and not Gatwick (where out car was parked - check out the excellent Purple parking) We wonder if this was the reason for the low price, well that and the naff hotel.

I think I'dapproachh Lastminute.com with a great deal of care in future, and be morethoroughg going through all the details of what we'd actually booked - not of course assuming we'd be flying back to the same airport!