What is the Differences between Reservations and bookings and How to get the Flight and Hotel Reservations without paying for Schengen visa?

Below you will find the differences between “reservations” and “bookings”:

● 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 does not mean, as the name suggests, that they are “fake tickets” but, instead that they are a reservation where you do not need to make the payment in advance.

However, making a reservation does not mean you are going to pay the whole price of the plane ticket or the hotel room.

Schengen Visa Itinerary can help you book a dummy ticket for a Schengen visa, which can later be converted into a confirmed ticket or cancelled if your visa application gets rejected. This will potentially save you thousands of dollars on your air ticket, since dummy tickets booked through our website are valid for at least 2-3 weeks.

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. 

● 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.

You can get the flight and Hotel Reservations through the Schengen Visa Itinerary has created several packages to suit the needs of different kinds of travelers. These packages not only include flight reservation for visa, but other required documents too, such as Hotel Booking for Visa Application, Travel Insurance for Visa Application.

These itineraries are not actual flight tickets because they are not paid for, except for the minimal service or processing charges that the travel agent will make. Once your visa is issued, you can either go ahead and confirm the reserved booking or cancel it and book new tickets for your preferred dates.