Co-op Travel

Co-​Op travel is right in the heart of the city centre and despite that it is never that busy. I have to say that my own experience with them wasn’t much better. What I have found is that they offer really cheap low star rating self catering deals on their window so if you want a decent holiday you have to go in and have a look. So when you go in you sit down with an admittedly very nice staff member who asks you what holiday you are thinking of then proceeds to totally ignore what you wanted and offer you some rubbish that they get commission on. For example my partner and I wanted to go to Sorrento 5* but the travel agent kept offering Croatia 3*!?
I felt it was a total waste of time and I won’t be going back in there again or recommending it to anyone either.

Co-​op Travel situated on Kirkgate right in the heart of Leeds city centre is one of the most prolific travel agents in the area — there must be four branches in the city centre alone not to mention in the neighbouring suburbs and the White Rose Centre.
The shop does offer some great travel deals if you don’t want to go on a specific date or you are looking for a last minute deal. For myself and my partner we went into the Co-​Op Travel Shop to look for a Spanish holiday on a specific date (give or take a few days) in July, as these were the only weeks we could secure together off at work.
After going through all the places we would like to go, and finding no matches for the date, the rep then tried to sell us holidays in Egypt (at the height of the ‘troubles’), Rekjavic (we wanted to go to Spain!) and various 3* self catering ‘bargains’ (when we had asked for 4 or 5* half board).
We wended up feeling rather disillusioned and leaving, the rep was very polite but it was like she wasn’t listening to us at all. She still ended up printing off details of some ‘deals’ in totally unsuitable places and insisting we take them, and if we want them, to ‘call soon’ as they will be ‘snapped up’. We threw away the print outs and went on Teletext like the true Northerners we are and found a 5* half board holiday in Tenerife for the same price as the Co-Op’s 3* ‘bargains’.
I don’t think I would visit there again unless I saw a great deal in the window with the dates I wanted, as it stands they just cannot deliver the service I expect from a travel agents and there are far better ones on the high street.