The ‘mystery holiday’ that could take you to the Maldives for £99

Seven nights successful the Maldives, Barbados, Thailand oregon Mexico could outgo you conscionable £99 with what seems similar an bonzer deal, excessively bully to beryllium true.

The deal, tally by discount website Wowcher, includes flights and accommodation successful 1 of 100 destinations astir the world.

The advertisement shows postcard photos of Florida, New York, Vietnam and Bali, arsenic good arsenic snapshots of city breaks specified arsenic Berlin and Copenhagen.

But here’s the catch: you won’t cognize wherever you’re going until you’ve paid the money.

Let’s get down to brass tacks.

Travelling to the aforementioned destinations – positive short-haul formation hubs including Crete, Malta, Sicily, Tenerife and Ibiza – volition acceptable you backmost £99, if you question successful debased season.

That’s from January to March, successful May, oregon from September to December.

Travelling during highest times incurs an further fee, bringing the full outgo to £129 per person. There’s besides an medication charge, which appears to beryllium £9.99 per booking.

The woody includes a 2 to seven-night enactment (depending connected the destination) successful three-star accommodation, successful a backstage country with an ensuite.

All short-haul flights are nonstop from the UK to your destination.

Now for the reality.

The enigma woody has go a fashionable TikTok trend, with radical filming the infinitesimal they find retired the determination they’ve been given.

But portion travellers person near affirmative feedback connected the Wowcher website (one reviewer called her travel to Dubai ‘amazing’ and gave it 5 stars), it’s a antithetic communicative implicit connected Reddit.

Users person warned that booking the enigma travel is apt to outgo a batch much than £99, erstwhile extras and fees are added.

Many complained astir mediocre formation times and luggage restrictions, arsenic good arsenic hotels agelong distances from the metropolis centre.

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One idiosyncratic wrote: ‘The formation times mightiness not beryllium great, oregon the hotels mightiness beryllium rather a mode retired of the metropolis centre.

‘You tin alteration these, but that usually means paying more. The flights are manus luggage only, truthful you mightiness request to wage much for a bag. It tin inactive beryllium bully worth adjacent with that, though.’

However, others said they were blessed with the package.

One traveller who got 3 nights successful Budapest said the travel was pleasant, adding: ‘I would see it inexpensive and cheerful, a basal edifice but precise central.’

A look astatine the good people connected the Wowcher website reveals third-party question companies are utilized to supply the trips.

The presumption and conditions amusement holidays are sold successful batches of 2,000, but lone six successful 2,000 are to luxury locations similar Barbados oregon Dubai.

The astir commonly won destinations are successful Europe.

Metro has contacted Wowcher for comment.

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