moral of the story is book well in advance
I thought it wasn't going to happen until I got an e-mail last night.
I had written to my hosts weeks and weeks ago, but until a response, I couldn't take the chance of booking when there might be no actual holiday.
more expensive not like usuall they are cheap on that site
I found the same flights on three different sites. I just went with the site that worked properly.
Their job can't be hard selling plane tickets. The thing they really need to get right is getting the information to you and making it easy to buy the tickets. Some sites wanted my name, e-mail address, shoe size and inside leg measurement just to do a search, so they can just flip off for starters.