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Brilliant staff - very, very helpful. Would always use them again
Mike did a great job getting me a flight home from USA when mine was cancelled. Did not want to be stranded and Virgin had not got in touch after initial cancellation.
Brilliant trip. Thank you for everything
Rocky is the best! He got me the best flight at a competitive price. Thank you!
Will use again on other flights for our artists, perfect service, thanks again!
Everything was perfect. Have already recommended you to friends, colleagues and family. A special mention to Guy who arranged everything and was always on the other end of the phone in case we had any questions.
Good communication prior to the flight to ensure we had everything we needed. Excellent service.
Great customer service as always
Stan is brilliant.
All good as usual. Nice that seats were booked for us.
Have recommended you to friends and family who now book through yourselves due to your friendly and helpful manner.
Excellent service and great prices.
Roger's help was brilliant, much appreciated.
Nice to have a personal approach in this electronic era!
All flights and car hire worked well - thank you Kelly for helping with our travel plans
Always available if needed
Love doing business with DialAFlight. Eric is fab and a great source of information allowing me to make informed decisions. He always has some deal available for me. I am always recommending to friends.
Julie found us the trip that exceeded all our expectations and we had a fantastic time. Many thanks DialAFlight!
Leah did an amazing job - well beyond what we would expect from a travel agent.
Excellent service, many thanks
Byron was excellent
Thank you Niall for all your advice on places to stop on our tour of the west coast and for finding great hotels. The last 5 days in Mexico were perfect as well. You did what other travel agents told us we couldn’t do by arranging flights from Vegas to Cancun. Brilliant service!
Always appreciate working with you guys
Tom Swain did a fantastic job of sorting out the logistics and travel for our USA trip. Would recommend to anyone looking to use DialAFlight..
Everything went very smoothly and it was a great bonus to have 3 days car hire included
Very friendly and helpful
I found the whole experience excellent and will definitely use your service again when booking any flights.
Friendly and efficient service
Tyler is excellent, polite and looks after his customers
Fabulous from start to finish. Great to speak to a knowledgeable and efficient member of staff who couldn’t do enough for us. Thank you Hugo. Highly recommended.
Sitting on San Francisco's famous Pier 39, sauce-stained children slurp huge bowls of clam chowder. In the background, Alcatraz's forbidding, mist-shrouded silhouette rises from the ocean.
The nearby gift shop is doing a roaring trade, churning out striped underpants and replica prison-issue toiletries bearing the tag line, 'don't drop the soap', all to a soundtrack of the pier's famous blubbery, barking sea lions.
Fresh crabs are available to buy from vendors in Fisherman's Wharf
WHERE TO FIRST
But the waterfront – with its many fresh crab restaurants – will soon look very different. The green-fingered team behind New York's urban High Line has now turned its attention to the Presidio – a beautiful, sprawling park overlooking the bay.
The tunnels burrowing through it will soon form the base of a spectacular, 14-acre park known as Tunnel Tops. When it opens in 2019, there will be beautiful views of the bay and meadows filled with fragrant wildflowers.
During 1967's Summer of Love, pier workers fought their way through crowds of garland-waving hippies who gathered here to shout about the Vietnam War.
THEN AND NOW
Now, more than 50 years on, hipsters have replaced hippies in Haight-Ashbury. A handful of psychedelic shops filled with tie-dye are squeezed between boutiques and organic cafes.
The closest encounter I have with a possible hippy is when I crouch down to take a picture of an enormous rainbow-themed piece of street art and accidentally disturb a dreadlocked local dozing in a doorway.
Take a winding walk on picturesque Lombard Street
At Pork Store Cafe, a 40-year-old Haight Street institution famous for its huge breakfasts, I meet Amanda, a local, who tells me how the area's beautiful, Victorian, pastel-hued houses are being snapped up (and lovingly refurbished) by dotcom billionaires. She complains that prices have rocketed.
As I cycle towards the city centre, a smiling skateboarder shouts his encouragement and speeds past me – uphill. I realise his skateboard is battery-powered. I recall my chat with Amanda and wonder if it's Mark Zuckerberg or someone similar.
MOMENTARY ESCAPISM
On the recommendation of a friend, I stop by Hotel Zetta in downtown San Francisco. Since last spring, it's been home to the world's first hotel-based virtual reality room. It's free to try – those in need of a moment of escapism (without the mind-altering drugs) can simply walk off the street into the padded room and slip on the headset.
I do so and find myself standing atop a shipwreck, one of several colourful worlds to be explored.
VIRTUAL SIGHTSEEING
Neon fish swarm around me and when I turn around, I'm face-to-face with a huge, blinking whale. The next moment, I'm in a mountainous valley (apparently it's modelled on the landscape of Washington State).
The cable car system is an icon of San Francisco
Despite being just metres away from the rumbling trams, I can wander to a cliff edge and peer into a valley so deep that my stomach flips.
On my final night, I check out China Live, one of the city's newest restaurants. The walls are lined with hand-painted tiles showing local landmarks, such as the Transamerica Pyramid.
CHINATOWN
I sit at one of the communal tables and try jellyfish for the first time (it's salty, rubbery and delicious) with a potent, dragon fruit tea-infused cocktail.
Golden Gate Park: one of San Francisco's greatest treasures
Chinatown borders North Beach, a bay-side neighbourhood with a huge Italian community. I cycle home past Italian flags painted on lamp posts and delis blaring opera music.
In a nearby park, Chinese women perform perfectly choreographed tai chi routines near students making the most of California's decision to legalise marijuana. Suddenly, that Summer of Love doesn't seem quite so far away.
Amazingly, it is simple old-fashioned service that sets us apart from other travel firms. And yes, we really do answer the phone within 5 seconds!
Check out the reviews on Trustpilot and the word ‘service’ appears again and again. And you’ll find many reviews from customers saying they wasted hours trying to plan a holiday themselves before calling us - often on the advice of a friend - only to find we could offer numerous options not available online, which also saved them money.
Our team of 300 travel managers has been arranging tailor-made holidays for almost 40 years and we believe no one does it better. Judge for yourself.
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Airport Lounges from £25
Once you’re through security leave the crowds, kids and chaos behind you with a visit to one of our comfortable airport lounges.
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Use our speedy private transfer service to avoid the stress of finding your way out of the airport terminal and looking for a taxi or bus on arrival.
With our meet and greet service, our driver will meet you in the arrivals hall. They will monitor flight arrival times giving you peace of mind that someone will be waiting for you with a name board even if your flight is late.
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