I booked a £129 ‘Wowcher mystery holiday’ with my friend – it ended up costing over £500 in extra charges

A TikToker has shared her ‘honest’ experience of a £129 Wowcher minibreak mystery holiday to Prague – which ended up costing more than £500.

Becky Chorltona content creator and verified seller on fashion marketplace Depop, said she would recommend travelers book the trip themselves instead of using Wowcher, after the discount site added a host of additional costs to their trip.

Becky, from Warrington, told MailOnline Travel that her mystery trip came to £568 for herself and her boyfriend, much more than the original £129 per person they had originally wanted to spend.

Sharing the details of the trip in a video With her 179,000 TikTok followers, Becky explained that these ‘mystery’ holidays involve travelers purchasing a voucher, starting from £99 per person. Wowcher will then contact you a few weeks later to announce the destination they are going on holiday and the details of their trip.

The trip ended up costing ‘quite a bit extra’ as they wanted to fly from an airport in northern England and hoped to travel in July or August – specifications that would incur extra costs.

Becky and her boyfriend spent a total of £568 on their holiday in the Czech capital

Share more about the experience in a blog post on the lifestyle app Lemon8Becky explained that it cost them £129 per person to travel in high season, as well as a £10 administration fee.

Becky wrote: ‘We got a call from someone at Wowcher who gave us our location for the holiday. They were out of beach trips so we definitely went to a city. At first they mentioned a few different locations, including Denmark… and then they asked if we wanted to go to Prague.”

The couple agreed to a trip to Prague, but insisted on three nights in the Czech capital after originally being offered two.

Wowcher offered them flights from London, but because the couple wanted to fly from Manchester they had to pay extra. Becky explained: ‘To fly from Manchester cost us an extra £130 per person which was super expensive.’

The pair flew with Ryanair and spent three nights in Prague in a hotel. While Becky described the hotel room as “nice” and noted that it had a private balcony, she said it was 20 minutes outside the city center and was “more of a hostel than a hotel.”

It was more expensive for the couple to travel during peak season, Becky revealed. Wowcher offered the couple flights from London, but because they wanted to fly from Manchester they had to pay extra for their flights

The pair flew with Ryanair and spent three nights in Prague in a hotel

Explaining what else she spent money on, Becky told MailOnline: ‘The holiday was also self-catering and did not include transfers to and from the airport, which we were aware of when booking.’

The popular video has been viewed more than 20,000 times and attracted a number of outraged commenters. One wrote: ‘I’m sorry but that’s my worst nightmare staying in a hotel like that.’ Another said: ‘Oh no, for that money you could have been much cheaper and nicer in Prague!’

Meanwhile, some shared their own experiences with Wowcher’s mysterious vacations. One person wrote: ‘We paid £80 per person for Gdańsk [in Poland, it] was nice but we had to travel from London for flights with no option to change airports as we live in Leeds.’

“The whole experience was just a bit of fun, it helped us discover our love for city breaks,” Becky said of the trip

The couple arrived at their hotel, which was twenty minutes outside the city center

The hotel where Becky and her boyfriend stayed and which they called ‘nice’. Becky said their hotel was “more of a hostel than a hotel.”

Despite the extra costs, Becky seemed to make the most of her trip and even described it as one of her ‘favourite’ holidays.

She told MailOnline: ‘The whole experience was just a bit of fun, it helped us discover our love of city breaks and it meant we discovered a new place that we probably wouldn’t have visited on our own.’

She added that it would be a “great gift” for someone if they could travel from a London airport. However, she said: ‘I do think that if we had booked the holiday to Prague ourselves we could have gotten a lot more value for our money.’

While Becky said she would be ‘hesitant’ to book with Wowcher again, she told MailOnline: ‘If you’re struggling [with] deciding where to go and just looking forward to a holiday. I recommend you do this experience, but manage your expectations!’

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