TravelUp

What to know about shopping at TravelUp

TravelUp is a UK travel booking platform founded in 2004 with over two decades in the tourism industry, serving both B2B and B2C buyers with flights, hotels (a worldwide inventory of more than 400,000 properties), ATOL-protected package holidays, and car hire across global destinations — long-haul favourites like Dubai, Saudi Arabia, the Maldives, Thailand, Bali, and North America (Canada and the USA) alongside European city breaks, plus around-the-world and multi-stop itineraries that the major tour operators don't pre-package. The platform's dynamic packaging engine lets buyers mix and match flights from over 400 airlines (Qatar Airways, Lufthansa, British Airways, Air France, KLM, Emirates, and Etihad are among the regularly bookable carriers) with the worldwide hotel inventory to build custom holidays — useful for off-season dates, off-peak business class, or specific airline + hotel combinations that branded packages won't bundle. Flight-only and hotel-only bookings are also supported alongside the package holiday core, and one-off campaign codes occasionally appear around major worldwide sporting events (such as the 2026 soccer World Cup) targeting destination bookings tied to those tournaments.

ATOL protection applies to package holidays (flight + accommodation booked together), which is the regulated UK protection for the package portion of your trip — flight-only bookings are typically not ATOL-covered and may instead be protected by the airline or by separate scheme depending on the booking, so it's worth checking the booking confirmation rather than assuming end-to-end ATOL coverage on every booking type. Which? readers have noted the smooth booking process in past reviews, and the site offers UK customer support during the booking and pre-departure period.

Discount codes for TravelUp typically focus on package holiday bookings rather than flight-only — sitewide codes of around £15–£50 off appear regularly on hotel and package bookings, with deeper offers (up to around £100 off premium long-haul packages) during peak booking windows. The strongest promotional periods are January (post-Christmas peak booking season for the year's main holiday), late summer (September booking window for autumn and winter sun), and Black Friday for headline travel deals. Newsletter subscribers usually get advance notice of flash promotions and limited-time codes.

For practical buying: package booking through TravelUp can be cheaper than booking the same flight and hotel separately because the dynamic packaging combines wholesale rates that aren't always available on direct hotel sites — but always cross-check against the hotel's own price and a couple of OTAs (booking.com, Expedia) before booking, particularly for shorter European trips where price gaps are typically smaller. The flight-only side competes with Skyscanner, Kayak, and Google Flights for price discovery — TravelUp's strength is more often on the package combinations than on standalone flights. Holiday booking insurance and seat selection upgrades are typically presented at checkout; reading these add-on prices carefully (and comparing against standalone travel insurance from a specialist provider) is sensible to avoid paying a premium for convenience.

— MoneySaverCodes Team