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The Travel Bargain Thread
#1

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Post em here.

I will start.

Found a flight between London and NY for about 250 pounds (one way)

https://www.airberlin.com

Anybody know any cheap flights between London and Caribbean?

Cheapest flights from the status to Colombia?
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#2

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Quote: (02-29-2012 02:29 PM)Lumiere Wrote:  

Found a flight between London and NY for about 250 pounds (one way)

https://www.airberlin.com

Wow. It's sad that airfare has jumped up so much that is considered a bargain. In 2004, I flew from NY to London for 280 USD round trip using Hotwire.
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Quote: (02-29-2012 02:29 PM)Lumiere Wrote:  

Post em here.

I will start.

Found a flight between London and NY for about 250 pounds (one way)

https://www.airberlin.com

Anybody know any cheap flights between London and Caribbean?

Cheapest flights from the status to Colombia?

Nice, as a freelancer always looking for reasonably priced one way flights.

http://www.aerosvit.com

Kiev to Delhi 265 Euros one way. Considering taking this in about two weeks.

Depressing gloomy ass day in Ukraine today, though to myself what am I doing in this country as I trudged through pools of sludgy snow
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#4

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20 March 2012
http://www.airasia.com
London Gatwick to Kuala Lumpur
£199 One way inc all taxes

Sweeeeet [Image: smile.gif]
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#5

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http://www.aerlingus.com

Dublin to New York

249 Euros One way
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Quote: (02-29-2012 04:21 PM)Deb Auchery Wrote:  

20 March 2012
http://www.airasia.com
London Gatwick to Kuala Lumpur
£199 One way inc all taxes

Sweeeeet [Image: smile.gif]

Nice !!!!
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#7

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I always see great deals on Spirit Airlines, but I have never flown with them.

Anyone have an experience?
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#8

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Yeah spirit are pretty good
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#9

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Spirit is a step above Southwest, but a step below the major carriers

Do always remember that they charge for BOTH checked bag and carry-on

Tip:

I pre-paid online once for my carry-on backpack

When I got to the airport to check in, I noticed my backpack was able to fit in the bag size-check thingy and did not require the purchase so I wasted the $ (x2, round trip I believe)

Not sure if its still the same limits today, but do check your bag dimensions vs/ their limits before pre-paying carry-on (which is cheaper than paying at check in)

Also if you plan to use Spirit twice or more a year, their $9 club might be worth buying
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For you Priceline bidders,
use http://www.BiddingForTravel.com to check out recent winning bids to give you an idea on how much to bid yourself on hotel rooms based on these wins

Also read up on re-bid tips

With that sites help and bidding experience over the years, I've gotten...

- 4 star hotels in Midtown NYC for $150ish
- 4 star hotels in Vancouver for $60ish
- 3.5 star hotels in L.A (near airport) for $50ish
- 4 star hotels in Hollywood for $70ish
- 4 star hotels in London for $70ish
- 3.5 star hotels in Toronto for $50ish
- 3 star hotel in downtown Houston for $50ish
- 3 star hotel in midtown Atlanta for $50ish
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#11

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bump
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#12

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http://www.skyscanner.com
you can change the language,currency,country

and itll search a bunch of sites and display the best prices and whatnot.
If theres a cheaper way to do to flight it often will say you can save X amount if you leave from a different airport or different day


http://dohop.com/
Small site..I dont know if its useful for the states, but its good for europe.
gives you all kinds of discount airlines


http://www.bravofly.co.uk
Another small site.
It actually has a calender that shows you how much it estimates cost to be on different days and lengths of the trip

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#13

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Maxing out airline programs and then dropping them is working well for me. Some cards give 5x points points for some categories and 2X for everything else. And you can cancel after a few months without penalty.
I talk about a lot of strategies in a book I wrote on travel hacks
http://www.amazon.com/Insider-Secrets-30...597&sr=8-1

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Sorry if this is a dumb question as I'm not tech savvy when it comes to e-books...

Do I need a Kindle to read this?

Ready to buy!

Quote: (03-28-2012 03:20 PM)hun73r Wrote:  

Maxing out airline programs and then dropping them is working well for me. Some cards give 5x points points for some categories and 2X for everything else. And you can cancel after a few months without penalty.
I talk about a lot of strategies in a book I wrote on travel hacks
http://www.amazon.com/Insider-Secrets-30...597&sr=8-1

shameless plug (but it's only .99 or free with amazon prime)
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See this is the kind of thread that should have it's own sticky, so this kind of practical information can be available right away.

I'll throw out http://www.kayak.com

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One website I use a lot is http://adioso.com
The site is based in Australia (like me) and only in Beta but if your looking at flying around Australia and Asia (particularly SE Asia) it does an awesome job, particularly searching discount airlines that many of the big aggregators miss like AirAsia, Jetstar, etc.
They are adding more airlines and eventually I think it will be of more use to Americans and Euros. It has some powerful search options which set it apart and is incredibly

For booking hotels in Australia http://wotif.com is your best option. Occasionally you will find better prices elsewhere but it dominates regardless with ease of use, number of hotels and consistent low prices. It is however pretty hopeless for finding backpackers, look at a major backpacking destination like Cairns and they only list a couple of places and rates are usually same as the official websites.

'I blew most of my money on fast cars, booze and women. The rest I squandered' - George Best
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#17

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World Ciitizen just PM me your email and I will find you a copy.
no worries
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Quote: (02-29-2012 04:21 PM)Deb Auchery Wrote:  

20 March 2012
http://www.airasia.com
London Gatwick to Kuala Lumpur
£199 One way inc all taxes

Sweeeeet [Image: smile.gif]

Air Asia does not seem to fly to London or am I missing something here?
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Quote: (04-19-2012 11:46 AM)Lumiere Wrote:  

Quote: (02-29-2012 04:21 PM)Deb Auchery Wrote:  

20 March 2012
http://www.airasia.com
London Gatwick to Kuala Lumpur
£199 One way inc all taxes

Sweeeeet [Image: smile.gif]

Air Asia does not seem to fly to London or am I missing something here?

There used to be flights but not anymore
http://www.gatwickairport.com/business/m...ithdrawal/

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Quote: (04-19-2012 11:50 AM)Neil Skywalker Wrote:  

Quote: (04-19-2012 11:46 AM)Lumiere Wrote:  

Quote: (02-29-2012 04:21 PM)Deb Auchery Wrote:  

20 March 2012
http://www.airasia.com
London Gatwick to Kuala Lumpur
£199 One way inc all taxes

Sweeeeet [Image: smile.gif]

Air Asia does not seem to fly to London or am I missing something here?

There used to be flights but not anymore
http://www.gatwickairport.com/business/m...ithdrawal/

Dammit !

I am trying to work out a cheap way to get from London to australia

Any ideas anyone?
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http://www.itasoftware.com/
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#22

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BMI often has a sale on with flights heading out of London Heathrow to some interesting locations such as Yerevan,Tiblisi,Bishkek,Tehran etc. Due to the problems in Syria they are selling return flights to Damascus stupidly cheap. Good way to get to the Middle East. I flew with them to Bishkek when their sale was on for £325 return which is epicly cheap for a return to Central Asia from LHR.

Best travel bargain out there still has to be Ryan Air though. I flew from UK to Bratslava a while back for under £20, it cost me more to get to the airport then the flight. They have flights to the Baltics for similar prices making it the cheapest way to get to Russia when combined with a connecting train/bus.

Skyscanner is always my first port of call when checking flight prices. Planning a week in Russia for early July and am finding decent deals from London to Abakan and Novokuznetsk in South Siberia with Aeroflot/S7. Thinking of taking advantage for some Tannu Tuva escapades.
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#23

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Again with Aersovit, they have some good value flights to FSU places, especially good if you are currently in Ukraine

Kiev to Bishkek $343 one way
Kiev to Kaliningrad $186.40 one way
Kiev to Taskent $387 one way
Kiev to Batumi(Georgia) $154 one way
Kiev to Minsk $151 one way

For the more adventurous

Murmansk $361 one way

All taxes inc.
Seems like a great opportunity for discovering pussy paradises

Tempted to check out Batumi, at that price it's a steal.
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#24

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They also fly to "Krasnodar" near the Russian Black Sea coast, never heard of the place, but has 750k population.
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Another thing that might help people is when you find out that your flight has a layover somewhere.
instead of just getting the ticket...do two separate searches between the cities.
Example..I wanna fly from Hamburg to Atlanta. but the layovers stop in places like london or NYC

If book an individually ticket from Hamburg to NYC and then buy another ticket from NYC to ATL it came out to be almost 400 dollars cheaper.

Fly into a Airline hub and its always cheaper than flying to random airports.

Wikipedia the airport and find a list of the airlines that use that airport.
Those airlines are usually gonna have cheaper tickets

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