I always check expedia also.. that and travelocity.
In any case.... tried both again today and got the better price at travelocity. Unfortunately, because of my STUPID credit card limit of $1000 (on each- two of them) per 24hr period, I was unable to get the good price on all 5 tickets.
I was able to get the 5 tickets at $216.50 online- until the pay page. It was slightly over $1000- so the pymt wouldn't go through.... ofcourse. So I tried calling them to see if they could take 2 credit cards to pay for it over the phone- and they couldn't. They suggested opening 2 browsers, putting 3 tickets on one order, 2 tickets on another order- and to make sure we got them to have both browsers done all the way to the paying page- and then do them both one after another really quickly.
Well, I tried that and the first 3 would get the cheaper rate- the other two would always try to do it at $279!!!!! So I gave up.
Then I tried again with 5, thinking maybe if it stayed that way until tomorrow I could have my sister use her credit card to pay for it all at once at the cheap rate- and then it was putting them ALL at $279- apparently not as many seats left at $216.50???
So I gave up for real..... well, for hours. LOL And then I tried again- and this time it was letting me put 5 tickets at $216.50 again but it was showing the exact flight times/etc with very little amount of seats left to choose from! And ofcourse I couldn't pay for all 5 with my stupid $1000/24hr credit card.
So then I tried that double browser thing again- and it wouldn't let me! Everytime I tried to pull up a second browser, even trying to log out- it was still pulling up info from what I was doing on the other browser and asking me if I wanted to cancel the reservation I was working on already and start another one.
UGH!
So I decided to bite the bullet and just do 3 tickets, pay for them with one card, then do 2 more and pay with the other credit card. Well, it bit me in the butt that way. I did 3- and then ofcourse immediately tried with the other 2 tickets and the thing was tricking me into thinking I was going to get the great price and on the last page before paying it would then say "sorry, the price has gone up" at the top and the prices for those were $279 again.
Well at that point- when going through the reservations..... there were hardly any seats at all left for that specific flight both ways! We have to be on the same flight and prefer to sit near one another- yanno? We can't have all 5 of us split up all over the plane or on seperate flights at different times/etc!!!!! So I was scared if I waited to see if later I could get 2 more seats at the cheap price that we'd end up either not on the same flight or at the very least seated way far apart all split up.... so I went ahead and paid that $279 each for the other 2 tickets and chose seats where we'd be on the same aisle.
*sigh* Ohwell.. originally the price was $235 X five- which is $1175.
Yesterday at $279.5 each that would have been $1397.50.
The way I did it today with 3 tickets at $216.5 and 2 at $279.5 the total cost was $1208.50.
Soooo, basically I got 3 tickets less than I would have over a month ago, and 2 tickets MORE than that. But only $33.50 more than it would have been if I'd bought them a month ago. That's not too bad. That's not as bad as $220 more!!!!! Or however more it would have been if I'd waited longer. I also got a notice from farewatcher today (while I was gone from home so I couldn't jump on it immediately) that they had some fares at $113 round trip- missed that but then some were $203 but when I tried to get those- the exact dates (Nov 21 and Dec 2) were showing as sold out.
Oh and btw- the $216.50 tickets had to be on Nov 20th to Dec 2nd.... so that's how I had to make the $279 ones also ofcourse. That's one more day the kids will miss school BUT when I was doing all this figuring out earlier I realized that I had thought my DH was working Thursday evening shift and that's why I didn't want to leave until Friday evening. I was wrong- he works Wednesday evening shift then is off Thursday and Friday then vacation time starts! So he won't miss work- but the kids will miss one more day of school. But that's one more day at WDW though!
Thanks for all your help. I just KNOW that tomorrow (or this week or something) the rates will plummet and I'll be banging my head against a wall for missing out on the great prices. But considering how much the prices were going UP for the most part (except for some of the flights dropping down to $216.50 today)- I know that knowing my luck if I HADN'T bought them today- the price would have went even higher. I just know it. LOL
So glad that is over though. *phew* Just wish I could have gotten them all at the cheaper price... that would have been great!
