I've met a lovely woman on fiance.com and I hope to visit my girl in the Ukraine in the spring of next year. I feel more comfortable making my own travel arrangements but if the Fiance.com agency is reputable and trustworthy then I will use the agency. Can I depend on the agency to set me up with reliable flights, reliable lodging, competitive pricing and a reliable interpreter? Thanks for your input.
Dating agencies arrange dating, indeed everything they do is for profit, if you want flights then domestic flights, in Ukraine, can be booked via www.ukrainefare.com , www.flyuia.com , www.aerosvit.ua or for Simferopol www.wizzair.com
For accommodation just google for city name followed by apartment, also google for an interpreter in that city or look/advertise for one on such a site as www.brama.com
I would definately make my own travel arrangements, the agency will charge their fee on top of your airfare, I am from the UK i have found that BMI are the cheapest direct flight to kiev but look out for deals on B.A.
You guys are the bomb! Thanks for the help. I'm hoping for the best, but I'm preparing for the worst. I hope to have a plan "B" and a plan "C" if my plan "A" arrangements go south. Any other input from anyone on what to be aware of would be greatly appreciated. I'm a sub-novice at this and I have no ego regarding my lack of knowledge. Feel free to fire away guys.
I visited Ukraine for the first time this past May and I made all the arrangements myself. Much more effective than to be have it done by the agencies as then you are stuck on their itinery with their inflated prices. Traveled to Nikolaev so did my research and asked the experts here on the forum for their suggestions and all the advice I received was right on target and helped me make my travel arragements. My GF now my fiancee knew what the arragements were and she met me at the train station at the expected time and everything was very smooth.
Main Man Fiance.com is not a marriage agency or dating agency. Do it yourself on the travel, there are many Threads here of where to go and where to stay also many of us know people there willing to interpret for a reasonable fee.
getting back to original thread:
Maine_man, - Fiance.com is not an agency. we are dating web site. we can help you do travel arrangements and you will pay small arrangment fee. what we usually do is we find you the same best delas as you can find youself, or using advise from people on this forum. but as everybody pointed correctly. you can do your own travel arrangment.
befor eyou go to meet he, get her private phone number, talk to her. she may find you everything herslef. I would not recomend you to do any tour arrnagments if you have not talked to her on the phone.
martin....I was laughing my arse off reading about you working for fiance....took me a while to get off the floor. RB, you should read more before you get involved in a discussion about someone( or any one) in particular...if you only knew, you would understand.
If you can't handle this then perhaps you might occupy yourself doing us a favour:
Might you contact scooby and just give him a nudge that we're still waiting for that proof he bragged he had, it's awfully tiring waiting and waiting, day after day, for it so if he might provide it toot sweet then it would awfully much be appreciated.
Thank you ever so much ragingbull, toodle pip old chap.
You involved yourself in the previous idiocy of scooby by claiming that another member had sent you a PM, well another forum member has sent me a message, and this is something that can actually be proved, and that other forum member makes claim that you are a 'goofball'.
Therefore we require you to answer this definitively, are you a goofball ragingbull?
Many of us already know the answer but we'll enjoy listening to your excuse(s):)
As a former member of Operation 40. I can attest without any problem that Smart Martin has never been an agent for Fiance.com. I got this information directly from Victor Marchetti who got it from Barry Seale, who got it from Frank Sturgis who got if from the paymaster E. Howard Hunt.
"Live long and Prosper," Leonard Nimoy on several S.T. episodes. I'm learning more by, reading from the accumulated wisdom, here, and it is always worth taking the time, to follow the serious parts of the thread(s). I've likened myself with going back to Anastia many times to like being a drug addict who's also a Rehab Clinical Psychiatrist. You are clean for awhile and then you fall off the wagon, and then you, get clean, again and swear you'll never go back, but, again, you repeat the cycle. Right now, I'm off the wagon, and think, it'll be at least a couple of months before I get clean again. While I'm on this current binge, I'm going to seriously try to get together with a lady here. And continue to come back here for more insight as often as I can.