I've had many good experiences of Trailfinders over the years. However, with the popularity of…read morebooking flights directly over the internet I feel they are losing their way somewhat. They need to offer something more. Maybe I was served by the wrong person but the passion or enthusiasm and love of travel was just lacking. On a positive note, they don't charge any extra for credit card payments which is unusual nowadays.

This is a brilliant travel option. Especially good if you are planning a travelling trip, ie a…read more"round the world" trip etc. Many different independant travel companies are available and all branches have many different brochures to look through. The staff are very helpful and friendly and have undergone specialist training in this area.

Very helpful, enthusiastic staff that will work with you to find the flight deal, route, airline…read morethat are right for what you need. They can book hotels, transfers, car hire, etc but the main business is booking scheduled flights. Apparently, they can deal with every single scheduled airline anywhere in the world!! I probably spent about an hour going through different options and stop overs. In the end I was happy with the option and the price offered so I got my flight to Australia booked!

First class service from Thomson on this visit. Myself and…read moreAdam Y had spent a couple of weeks deciding where we should go on holiday this August and couldn't come up with any ideas within budget so we wandered around Bolton one day and picked up some brochures from various travel agents. Eventually we resorted back to the internet and just doing any old search with the main search being 'Adult only hotel' - we hate children. We found a 5* hotel within (almost) price budget on the Thomson website, but decided to go in-store to see if they could better it. Of we popped down to the late opening Thomson shop on the Fort shopping park on a Wednesday evening and we were warmly greeted by a young chap who happened to be the manager. He asked us to sit down and explain what we wanted. He searched and unfortunately the price his system was giving him was £250 more than the website. Not to worry he said, he would price match for us and even waiver the admin fee because he could. How nice! However, he was going away in two days so if we wanted it we would need to book with him before Friday to get this deal. We couldn't decide there and then so had a wander around the car park and came to the conclusion that we would only spend the next two days looking on the internet more and only coming back here. So we walked back in and booked it. The young man was very friendly and gave us advise on the resort and travel tips without being patronising as some travel agents can be. I would definitely recommend using Thomson, this one in particular.

My sense of direction can be pretty appalling, and unless i'm given explicit instructions getting…read moreme from A to B as the designated leader is a nightmare. Traipsing a mate around from Leeds who couldn't help me find my way around to where we needed to be I headed to GMPTE Travelshop, Piccadilly Gardens. I queued up, and within a few seconds, this big chappy beckoned me forth, scary lookin bloke, until he smiled, and what a jolly and helpful soul he was. Directions, a talk through, a map, information from the stands behind me, a double check to make sure I'd got it right, I hadn't, so out he came, once we'd gathered more materials, and stuff up, and gave us properly directions as to where we needed to head in order to get where we needed to go. Fabulous! Really helpful staff, packed full of information, and easily accessible between the train stations and bus station.

Need a timetable? Need a giant map of every bus route in…read moreyour area? Need a pass for the shiny new metro? Need a friendly person to tell you the best way to get to Leigh? Located in the heart of Piccadilly Gardens, this modern and spacious travel office is the place to come. Not only are there leaflets and timetables galore, but a number of helpful people to speak to, which is a rarity in this day and age where everything is done by machine.