D and I realized it's time to start planning our next visit to the UK. For those of you who don't know: we go every other year to see D's family. His mum was able to travel here this past Spring (after several years of medical issues), but his dad can't travel and his sister won't come to the US (long story). So to see everyone (including our nephews and niece), we have to go there. Oh - and I forgot all of D's cousins!
Anyway, we always add a vacation on to the end of the trip, since at that point we're already in Europe and Ryanair flights are pretty inexpensive if you don't check anything.
After our trip to Las Vegas, F was pretty enchanted by the Venetian, and we thought it might be nice to at least have a day in Venice (it's beautiful, but not really the type of place we'd like to stay for a week - we like a more low-key, small vacation town and a weekly let). We've been to Italy before (actually we were in that region in a town called Montalto de la Marche which was quite a bit less expensive and more real than Italian tourist spots). But this time, we're thinking outside Italy a little bit... Our current options are coastal Slovenia or coastal Croatia. (Somewhat cheaper than Italy, close to Venice, especially by boat, and there are several towns that are exactly what we're looking for).
We have $2770 in the airfare category and $650 in the rewards category, plus I have another $691 that I can redeem in rewards. At the moment, flights next summer are about $5300 for all three of us - gulp. Is there a better time to buy tickets? (We have to do summer, but if we purchase them 6 months in advance, is that better than purchasing them a year in advance?).
Starting to Plan the Next Visit to the UK
July 21st, 2015 at 11:00 pm
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July 22nd, 2015 at 02:55 pm 1437576925
Also, use google flights. You can save flights you have looked up and it will keep a graph of prices over time, for each flight you save. I think in the end I chose an entirely different flight when it went on sale, but it's interesting to see the historical price fluctuations. The downside of google flights is for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to get notifications of price drops. ??? But I did just check it every Tuesday because that is usually when domestic flights are cheaper. (I don't know if that is true for international flights, though I think I recall that Tuesdays were cheaper when shopping for Japan flights).
July 22nd, 2015 at 05:32 pm 1437586342
One thing I do is instead of picking out a place I look for a cheap deal somewhere then go there. I am excited for you Buendia!
Search Pinterest too. Research = $save money
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