Booking business travel flights

[Cogcog]

Does anybody use a good agency to book flights and hotekls overseas?

I have been asked to fly to Dubai to run a short morning course on a Monday, then another in Geneva on the Wednesday and Paris on the Thursday. I need hotels the night before each course.

I would like someone to do all the organising of the travel and hotel.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

we use
http://www.redfern-travel.com/

[Roger645]

We use these:

http://www.carlsonwagonlit.com/en/

[Puggit]

http://www.etontravel.com/ - used them from 2 different companies, always came up trumps.

HOWEVER

It will always be cheaper to do the leg work yourself.

[Cogcog]

Puggit said:

http://www.etontravel.com/ - used them from 2 different companies, always came up trumps.

HOWEVER

It will always be cheaper to do the leg work yourself.

I guess so but a client is paying! If they pay me an alowance I may be motivated to get the price down but don't relise it as it is a three leg Dubai-Paris-Geneva and home week.

[LooneyTunes]

Just do it on Expedia and/or your preferred airline's site?

I always find that by the time I've explained to a travel agent what I want and they've come back with options I might as well have just done it myself... but it is times like that that I miss having a decent assistant to take care of it...

[Nat_H]

Roger645 said:

We use these:

http://www.carlsonwagonlit.com/en/

So do we. They do a pretty good job, considering our company has 200k+ employees.