Hi all
I have been musing over all the comments on flight prices versus flight and accommodation prices. It has been floated that in 2009 it may be cheaper to take a package deal including accommodation and then just use the flights and that may be true.
Wouldn’t it be great to beat the bully boy, monolithic holiday firms at their own game!
We live in the west country and in theory could fly from Exeter, Bristol, Cardiff or Gatwick, Luton or Heathrow. 7 of us will travel in May and October so we have a vested interest in getting a good price.
We usually find Gatwick flights best on cost even with parking and hotel costs added rather than regional airports and once suffered being bused to Gatwick anyway when we booked from Bristol.
We choose, normally, to fly independent and have used all the airlines I think. Obviously now we have a villa in Arillas but since we have had children (3 in total) we have always found independent and particularly villa holidays more relaxed and often very competitive with package deals. We dont consider that a holiday isn’t a holiday with 5 in one bedroom!
However I have no axe to grind here other than the keen edge of thrift and the search for empirical evidence to back these claims. My mind is open.
So the purpose of this topic is to monitor the very best deals as you land them, booking early or booking late. Particularly flight prices as you see them and package deals to Corfu that might be more competitive than just the flights.
I am going to hang on booking personally until at least November when the Easyjet prices come out but it would be great to monitor the last minute bargains as you land them throughout the season.
There’s has been a lot of conjecture as to the cheapest means of getting to Arillas and it would be great to get some hard facts in 2009.
