Incoming travel agent in Russia, Ukraine, Baltic States and Central Europe; Bedbank and FIT rates with allocations and freesale for the travel trade

DMC and wholesaler - services to the travel industry since 1991

FIT services

INDIVIDUAL TRAVEL SERVICES FOR:

DYNAMIC PACKAGING
BUSINESS TRAVELLERS
ONLINE RESERVATIONS SYSTEMS

The range of services we offer our tour operator and travel agency clients is second to none and includes:

Best prices based on huge volumes of wholesale travel
Our own Russian visa support
Fast response
Our own hotel quotas to ensure the lowest possible prices at all times
All levels of hotels
Sightseeing programmes with professional guides of all languages
Concierge services for VIP guests
Welcome pack for FIT travellers
Our own guaranteed departure tours in Russia
Your own airport signs/guide badges if required
Western standards of service
£10 million liability insurance
24 hour local emergency contacts for all travellers
English speaking reservations staff in all our offices
Transiberian and domestic rail
Deluxe Rail travel
Eurolines bus (Baltics) and Tallink Ferries

How to work with us:

Our FIT tariff: You can start selling immediately using our agent tariffs.
We have FIT tariffs for:
- Russia
- Ukraine
- Baltics, Czech Republic, Poland, Belarus

Our tariff contains rates for:
- Hotels
- Transfers
- Sightseeing

All rates are nett (non commissionable). Revised tariffs are sent out regularly with any changes made by the hotels or due to exchange rate variations.

Online Hotel reservations: We can provide rates and inventory for your online system.

Upgraded Service for VIP travellers:
- Concierge services for VIP guests
- Welcome letter for FIT travellers
- Your own airport signs/guide badges

If you are servicing the 5 star deluxe VIP market, we can assist you with an enhanced service. Please ask for details

Making a reservation:
We are happy to accept your reservations on res@aslatravelgroup.com. For volume sales we will create a dedicated email address for your agency.

Payment:
We ask for full prepayment by bank transfer or credit card (charges apply).

Your vouchers:
The guest should have a prepaid voucher from you. It should be payable to Asla Ltd with any hotel reference number included. Please send us a sample of your voucher.

Contact numbers + Emergency contact:
We will supply you with our local office details together with out of hours contact numbers for 24 hour emergency cover. Please add this to the details on your customer voucher.

Contract:
We do not have a formal agreement, unless you plan to feature specific hotels in a brochure as part of a package, in which case a contract will confirm the rate for the period specified.

Russian Visa Support:
We provide the visa support to you free of charge when you book the hotel with us. Restrictions apply to certain nationalities, please ask us.

Russian Visa Service (Available in UK only):
Let us process your customers’ Russian visas at a fraction of the normal price. Please ask for details.

Agent support:
We have knowledgeable staff in all our offices your reservations team are welcome to contact us by email or telephone if they have any questions at all about our services. We are always ready to give assistance and advice.

We also have power point presentations which you might find useful for training purposes - please ask about these.

Hotel maps:
You can view hotel locations on our maps

Trans-Siberian Rail:
We operate a luxury rail programme - you can review all the information required on our website www.ClassicTrainTravel.com We provide 10% commission on the luxury rail bookings featured.

We also provide tailor made trans-Siberian programmes on the regular - 'no-frills' services. Prices for these services are nett and are available upon request.

Guaranteed Departure Tour:
We operate our own 7 night guaranteed departure tour in Russia (Moscow, Novgorod and St Petersburg).

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Latest Travel News

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:18:00 GMT

Hotels for Champions League Group Matches - Group and FIT

We have secured rooms in key cities for the Champions League Group Matches - from Amsterdam to Zilina (both alphabetically and geographically) including Moscow, Donetsk, and all destination cities...so contact us with your needs for Chelsea, Manchester United, Spurs and Arsenal!

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:26:00 GMT

City of Lviv Appeals to Tourists!

Just to let you know i had a wonderful weekend in Lviv. Perfect weather and lots of good food. Its certainly an unspoilt gem of a city.

Two full days was perfect to see all the museums, churches and other sights. I really enjoyed the tour of the local brewery museum !

There were a lot of bars and restaurants in the old town where you could sit outside and watch all the people. There are some lovely cafes to enjoy great coffee and cakes. It was like Krakow or Vienna without the crowds.

Grand Hotel was an excellent choice, centrally located and full of character and history. The room was very quiet which was important to me.

I think Lviv has a lot of potential as a short break destination. I just think there needs to be better and cheaper flight connections from UK. At the moment the fare is very expensive and the journey is long. It took me most of the day to get there with a long delay in Warsaw.

The other problem is general awareness of Lviv in UK. Most people have only heard of Kiev and Odessa. I'm sure it will become popular once the Euro 2012 football tournament has taken place in Ukraine, Lviv is one of the host cities.

Wed, 26 May 2010 13:14:00 GMT

British Airways Strike Leaves Russia Mainly Unaffected

The BA strike seems to be having little impact - excellent for our tour and cruise passengers to Russia. We are of course issuing Russian visas for extended stays in Russia - and can assist locally in extending visas in Russia in such cases. Most flights are operating normally between London and Moscow & St Petersburg - but watch the BA flight for updates.

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:45:00 GMT

Recruitment: Web Site Development - New Position, Huntingdon, UK

We are looking for a Web Site Developer to develop our wide range of websites. The position is based in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England. The key skills offered by the successful candidate will be: experience in developing websites in html - experience of xml would be an added bonus; detailed knowledge of java; a keen eye for graphic design and understanding of web site dynamics; quick worker, flexible and enthusiastic; experience on a wide range of service industry websites would be a distinct advantage. Send CV's to: recruitment@aslatravelgroup.com ; Salary is dependent on age and experience. Dynamic and challenging environment in a lovely setting. No agencies or design houses please.

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:40:00 GMT

New St Petersburg - Irkutsk Train on the Trans-Siberian Express

Stop Press: More changes on the Russian railways – train 10, the ‘Baikal’, was the Moscow-Irkutsk train; the plan is to run this train from Irkutsk to St Petersburg instead.

There will apparently be an additional Ulan-Ude-Irkutsk-Moscow train; and train 2 – the Trans-Siberian – will still be an option for Moscow-Irkutsk, but train 10 was the most convenient dedicated Moscow-Irkutsk train so this will affect itinerary planning. Something to watch out for. It is not clear when this will happen - more news soon.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:29:00 GMT

New Sapsan Express Trains Moscow-St Petersburg Available Now!

The new Sapsan Express day trains between Moscow and St Petersburg are now running regularly 3 times a day - and are expected to double to 5 and then later to 6 times each way every day - from 5 April. Check our current prices from our Moscow and St Petersburg trains - superb service, fast journey times (I did one yesterday departing St Petersburg 19.00 arriving Moscow 22.45 at speeds up to 200km/hour). Talk to our local offices or our UK office for details and prices! Prices will be online soon!

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:43:00 GMT

Indian Group Travel to St Petersburg Increases

2010 has seen a marked increase in demand for travel from India to St Petersburg, Russia. We have contracts in place to provide excellent Indian cuisine in St Petersburg for incoming groups, can handle special dietry requirements and assist with provision of visas for entry into the Russian Federation. Onward travel is available to Moscow and beyond.

We welcomed our first groups from India in 2009 and look forward to welcoming many more in 2010 and beyond.

Welcome to St Peersburg - Ekaterina and the St Petersburg Team!

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:33:00 GMT

FIT Prices for Tour Operators - Russia, Ukraine, Baltics, Belarus, Central Europe

Ask for our rates for your FIT and city break programmes. We supply instant bookings, allocations, amazingly low prices along with transfers, tours, trains - and Russian visas. Internal flights. Group tour programmes, Russia cruises, shore excursions, incentive and special interest group travel. Serving Online Travel Agencies is a speciality.

As the largest wholesaler for Russia and Ukraine, we offer full liability insurance, allocations country-wide - and best possible prices. Email us for a quote...all languages catered for!

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:20:00 GMT

Hotels along the Trans-Siberian Route

We provide hotels in all the major cities along the Trans-Siberian railway - from St Petersburg to Moscow, Ekaterinburg, Perm, Novisibirsk, Irkutsk, Ulan Ude - right through to Beijing. The dedicated ASLA Travel Group's teams in the UK and Moscow will plan your Trans-Siberian Railway tour from start to finish - includng the visas! We handle many travellers along the Trans-Siberian, Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Manchurian railway routes. Welcome to Siberia!

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:43:00 GMT

Rusdsian Visas Made Easy!

Well the good news is I finally got my visa today; particularly good as I leave in only four days time and was beginning to panic! The visa process for Russia (as I've mentioned before) is rather long-winded to say the least. First you have to apply for an invitation- but you can only apply no earlier than 45 days for departure, this takes about two weeks to process, so by the time you get it through, there's not much time to spare for the Visa application to go through.

Must say though I found an excellent travel group (ASLA- based in Cambridgeshire), who were fantastic in guiding me through the process, writing me a support letter (visa requirement) and generally making sure everything went as smoothly as possible.

So now that's it. All I have to do is pack....

I confess that I'm not exactly great at organising myself for a trip, usually that's bad enough when dealing with a one or two week holiday, but this time I'm packing for THREE MONTHS!
Nightmare.
I'm trying to only pack the necessities, but given I'm going to one of the coldest parts of the world, in winter, that's no easy task. Jumpers, thermals, coats and heavy trousers make that 20kg limit difficult to reach, That's before I add a couple of books (I can't survive without reading material!), children's books (for the teaching job), camera, hairdryer and the various chargers for ipod, phone, camera and laptop!
Trying to remember everything is a challenge enough, without having to squeeze it all into my bag.
My final pre-work challenge is the travelling down to Heathrow.
Even this is far from simple. I was going to travel down on Saturday itself (my flight isn't until 2pm) but then realised that there are going to be engineering works on the Norwich to London line ALL weekend. This means there's a bus (usually old and battered) replacement service between Colchester and Witham; thus turning a 1hour 50 min journey into a 3 hour nightmare- and that's if the roads are okay; looks like snow all week!
Thankfully however my friend in London has come to my rescue, so I'm now travelling down on Friday afternoon (normal service), staying at hers, then taking the tube down to Heathrow in the morning. On the plus side it means I get to see my best friend before I leave (which I didn't think would happen), so maybe a blessing in disguise.

Now all that stands between me and Russia is an unpacked bag, four days, a day of airports and that's it! Next time I write I'll probably either be in Russia or be well on my way!