April flights, look good prices

[wayneg]

Someone on HotUKdeals posted they had seen low cost flights with Thomas Cook, Gatwick into Sanford.

Saw one 16th-30th for £254 + extras

5kg hand baggage (Free)
20kg check-in baggage plus 5kg hand baggage (£46.00)
25kg check-in baggage plus 5kg hand baggage (£70.00

Add adult meals for just £17.00 return

Add 'Choose your seat' to your booking from £15.00 return per passenger

I checked same dates into MCO cheapest option was Virgin at about £460, indirect even more, so even adding on the extra's they still look a good deal.

 

[Kath2003]

Not bad - if you don't need the extras (which amount to £78 and are included as standard on most other airlines!) and don't mind Sanford.

Wouldn't work for us as not in school holidays but also not any cheaper for us due to all the above.

 

[wayneg]

Charters rarely work out cheaper in school hols but anyone that can use these dates they undercut VA & indirect by quite a bit.

2 adults VA £907
2 cheapest indirect £886
2 adults TC £600

Personally I would not pay for the meals or seats together but even adding those on its a big saving.

 

[Kath2003]

I see your point. Those indirect prices are bonkers.

 

[wayneg]

I see your point. Those indirect prices are bonkers.

£450 ish is getting to be the norm for indirect low season now, often I see VA as cheap or even cheaper, I am suprised to see these TC at £300 each 3 months out, they are last minute prices.

 

[Kath2003]

£450 ish is getting to be the norm for indirect low season now, often I see VA as cheap or even cheaper, I am suprised to see these TC at £300 each 3 months out, they are last minute prices.

I can't believe that's the current norm for indirect low season: we got indirect peak season (school holidays) for that...

 

[wayneg]

I can't believe that's the current norm for indirect low season: we got indirect peak season (school holidays) for that...

If you got indirect school hols for £450 you did well.
I class Nov one of the cheapest months, a quick search has just returned cheapest indirect for this Nov as £491.
In the summer holidays the norm for indirect is now £700+, yes there has been offers and errors but to book now for our dates(18th July~11th Aug) the cheapest I see is £698 with Delta.
There are a few indirect late deals sub £400 but anyone wanting to plan a few months to a year in advance you will struggle to get under £450 anymore.

 

[Kath2003]

If you got indirect school hols for £450 you did well.
I class Nov one of the cheapest months, a quick search has just returned cheapest indirect for this Nov as £491.
In the summer holidays the norm for indirect is now £700+, yes there has been offers and errors but to book now for our dates(18th July~11th Aug) the cheapest I see is £698 with Delta.
There are a few indirect late deals sub £400 but anyone wanting to plan a few months to a year in advance you will struggle to get under £450 anymore.

Yeah, sadly that'll be us out of the picture for a while then. Last year we couldn't find anything in our price range so we didn't go - guess the same next year if the flights are as bonkers as you say.

 

[UKDEB]

Anything that begins with a 4 these days is good value when you consider how little of it goes to the airline. I wonder how they manage to do it (in fact, I worry about it). At those prices, TC are virtually giving away the flights and I'd have reservations about booking with them in light of their recent troubles. At least with the scheduled airlines, the economy fares are being subsidised by the higher classes.

 

[orangetiggs]

We have direct this nov for 514 i was happy with that considering prices were huge

 

[tubtruck]

I am off next weekend for a week, using airfrance, MAN-CDG-MCO £490 each, school half term, booked in october.

 

[wayneg]

I am off next weekend for a week, using airfrance, MAN-CDG-MCO £490 each, school half term, booked in october.

I wish I was, Enjoy

 

[UKDEB]

With Tesco having diluted its Clubcard scheme and Airmiles having annihilated theirs with the change to Avios, dirt cheap BA flights are a thing of the past, so it's back to Virgin M+M for us. We've paid £476 which is palatable in the current climate. It's possible we could have got something in the £300s had we been willing to wait until a month or two out, but that's just too big a risk and takes all the fun out of planning.

 

[tubtruck]

I wish I was, Enjoy

Cheers Wayneg, maybe bump into you in august if our dates cross though think we are only there then for 6 nights.

 

[crabbie1]

We are still lookin for august but hv found cheaper to book a package We hv dvc but still need 3 or 4 nights but cmg back the 5th Sept is 8-900 cheaper than the 3rd.Price with ocean florida is £2689 with crown plaza for 4 nights but its indirect ( continental plane to dullus then united to Mco approx 12 hrs going 11.5 cmg bk). which we dnt mind compared to CO £ 2823 with VA staying at hampton in. Not fussed for 4 nights as long as clean so crown plaza can be altered with OF.
Where is dullus anyway and do continental hv inflight backseat TV's? Only ever flown VA so a bit wary

 

[Kath2003]

We are still lookin for august but hv found cheaper to book a package We hv dvc but still need 3 or 4 nights but cmg back the 5th Sept is 8-900 cheaper than the 3rd.Price with ocean florida is £2689 with crown plaza for 4 nights but its indirect ( continental plane to dullus then united to Mco approx 12 hrs going 11.5 cmg bk). which we dnt mind compared to CO £ 2823 with VA staying at hampton in. Not fussed for 4 nights as long as clean so crown plaza can be altered with OF.
Where is dullus anyway and do continental hv inflight backseat TV's? Only ever flown VA so a bit wary

Don't stress. VA are nothing special. You'll be hard pressed to find a plane without seatback TVs on the Atlantic crossing now (except charter flights). There may not be any entertainment on the Dulles to Orlando flight but it's short anyway. Dulles (IAD) is Washington DC. Remember to mentally deduct 1 hour from your journey duration if you're flying indirect - you clear US immigration at your first stop (Dulles) so you'll just walk out of the airport when you get to Orlando

 

[crabbie1]

Don't stress. VA are nothing special. You'll be hard pressed to find a plane without seatback TVs on the Atlantic crossing now (except charter flights). There may not be any entertainment on the Dulles to Orlando flight but it's short anyway. Dulles (IAD) is Washington DC. Remember to mentally deduct 1 hour from your journey duration if you're flying indirect - you clear US immigration at your first stop (Dulles) so you'll just walk out of the airport when you get to Orlando

Thankyou kathy. I am a really nervous flyer and have claustrophobia. I will b ok for a couple of hours but no more. Will see as when i get paid 27 th will b booking.