A Schengen Visa travel itinerary is not an actual
flight ticket booking or hotel booking that you spend money for, but a detailed
plan of your trip to the Schengen Area.
It does not require any money in advance. It should
include details regarding your flights and accommodation as well as your
day-to-day activities.
The Embassies/Consulates allow you to submit Flight
Reservations and Hotel Reservations
which are not the same as flight and hotel bookings – and the “travel
itinerary” is where you list those reservations and other activities.
Below you will find the differences between
“reservations” and “bookings”:
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Flight & Hotel Reservations
When you reserve your round trip travel tickets or
hotel room it means that all of your information will be stored in the system
of an airline company or on the website of a hotel (such as your full name and
the details of your passport).
The airline tickets or the hotel rooms are being held
for you for a specific period of time without you actually paying their full
price.
Please note that your airline ticket reservation
cannot be a one-way ticket. The Visa officers also request a return ticket as
proof of your intentions to return to your home country.
Typically, the hold option for an air ticket allows
you to hold a flight for 7 days.
The colloquial term used to describe a Visa ticket
reservation is “dummy ticket”. However, this doesn’t mean, as the name
suggests, that they are “fake tickets” but, instead that they are a reservation
where you don’t need to make the payment in advance.
For a few airlines (and most hotels) the reservation
is completely free of charge. Other airlines can charge you a certain
percentage of the fixed ticket for your flight confirmation.
However, making a reservation doesn’t mean you are
going to pay the whole price of the plane ticket or the hotel room.
If you need assistance with your flight and hotel
reservations, please do not hesitate to Contact our team,
as we would be more than glad to help you out.
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Flight & Hotel Bookings
The flight booking is the confirmed flight ticket that
you actually pay for, and that most of the time cannot be refunded (there are
only a few airlines that offer refundable plane tickets).
The same rule can be applied for hotels – Once you
pay, the amount can be refundable or not, depending on the hotels’ policy.
But the main difference between an airline and a hotel
is that most hotels allow you to reserve a room without paying (only a few
hotels might ask you to pay in advance).
No Schengen Embassy/Consulate requires you to get a
booked flight or hotel room and pay in advance prior to getting an approved
Visa (you must do this only if you are applying from the United Kingdom), as
they cannot guarantee your Schengen Visa approval.
If you pay for the flight and the accommodation and
your Schengen Visa gets rejected, you may lose a large amount of money.
However, in case of Visa denial, a few airlines may agree to fully reimburse
you.
Therefore, Embassies and Consulates allow you to
submit only flight and hotel reservations, which means you do not need to pay
100% upfront (they allow you to book a flight/hotel room and pay in advance,
but they did not recommend it).
You can populate the details within your trip
itinerary using only flight and hotel reservations as well.
To sum up, the Schengen Visa detailed day-to-day
travel itinerary doesn’t include only your flight and hotel itinerary details
but also the daily activities that you plan during your journey within the
Schengen Area (even if on some Internet websites you may find that the Schengen
Visa travel itinerary is the same as a flight itinerary).
Important:
If you’re planning to stay at a friend or relative’s house and not at a hotel
during your trip, you can simply add in your travel itinerary their home
address instead of a hotel’s address.
If you are part of a tour or cruise, make sure you ask
your travel agency or local travel agent to provide you with a letter
indicating the cities and countries you are planning on visiting.
We also suggest that you ask them to provide you with
an official letter on a letter headed paper containing the logo of the tourism
agency. The letter must be addressed to the Embassy/Consulate where you are
submitting your documents.
The
process of getting a Travel Itinerary for visa application is simple and quick,
just follow these steps:
• Go to https://www.schengenvisaitinerary.com/
• Choose
the Flight
Itinerary form from the plans
• Give
basic information about you in a short form as your name & surname as given
in your passport, your email address, phone number, as well as travellers
flight details as the date of arrival and departure.
• After
you click apply, you will have to proceed with the online payment.
• Upon the
confirmation of your payment, you will receive an email at the address you have
submitted, with the details of the service you have purchase.
• Print
the email and present it to the diplomatic office in your reserved visa
interview session.