mansy wrote:Which means all those poor souls who DO NOT have access to computers, and I believe there are still quite a few out there, will have trouble getting a visa, or worse still, arrive without one !!
Wonder if the airlines / holiday companies will advise travellers about the online only visa prior to booking / travel.
Well i have just found out about this through trip adviser and on here, even though we booked our whole package holiday through a travel agent! We were also asked i we knew that we would have to each have a £10 for our visa at
Dalaman airport, to which we replied yes we knew about the visa in the airport as we have been before.
We are in the travel agent on a regular basis at the moment to pay off our holiday bit by bit and not once has anyone in there told us about the change to how to get your visa and also the price increase. Lucily like i said i have found out about it on here but what about the people in my situation who dont come on forums or trip adviser etc???
I am one of those people who do not own a printer!? so i shall mention it to the travel agent but if they cant/wont print us (family of 5) off our visas we are stuck! no internet cafe around here it would mean having to ask a friend if i could hassle them to use their computer and printer for our holiday visa.
I dont really disagree with having to do it online however i am shocked at travel agents not telling us about this, yes its our job to make sure we have a visa but surely its the travel agents to tell you correctly how to get them and if it is online and you dot own a computer/printer they should be able to do it for you, after all we are paying them for our holiday and the visa as well.
I feel sorry for the people going at the begining of the season who do not know about this and still think you can get them at the airport - computer and printer owners or not.