Confessions of a YYC Travel Junkie

[User Name]

West Jet has some kickass deals on right now... van and back $248 all in. I think its 50% off until the end of the day.

[lucky1]

Originally Posted by WinColumn

Deal I found on Orbitz.com. Flights also available on Air Canada's website.

Flight to Barbados via Air Canada in November: $~500USD/person all in.
I found a quirk/feature/great deal on the Orbitz website, though. If you book the flight and hotel at the same time, choose Silver Point Villa for 7 nights. The price drops significantly from 6 nights, due to some promotion. Total cost $1400USD and change for 2 people! That's $700USD/person including flight AND hotel. Seriously good deal.

Silver point villa for sure? I enter that and it says it cant find a property by that name.....

[cmyden]

Silver point villa for sure? I enter that and it says it cant find a property by that name.....

Try entering just Silver point. Or Silver for that matter.

It should be the 2nd result when you sort by price. There's one that's a few dollars cheaper but the hotel isn't nearly as nice.

[Cactus Jack]

Any good deals to go to Vancouver for the Olympics?

[anyonebutedmonton]

I have a question for people:

How much is a decent deal for a flight from Calgary to New York?

I want to leave Oct 4 and return on the 8th....

I have it priced at about 550 per person. Is this a good deal?

[cmyden]

Any good deals to go to Vancouver for the Olympics?

Look into Air Miles or Aeroplan if you have any points. You'll find that they cost the usual amount of miles, even though the flights are currently twice as expensive as normal and likely won't get much cheaper.

[cmyden]

How much is a decent deal for a flight from Calgary to New York?

I want to leave Oct 4 and return on the 8th....

I have it priced at about 550 per person. Is this a good deal?

In my opinion a 'good deal' to new york would be in the $300-$375 USD range which I've seen from time to time. But of course there are so many factors, which days of the week you're flying, which New York area airport you're flying into etc.

[Cactus Jack]

Originally Posted by anyonebutedmonton

I have a question for people:

How much is a decent deal for a flight from Calgary to New York?

I want to leave Oct 4 and return on the 8th....

I have it priced at about 550 per person. Is this a good deal?

That's a very average deal. I fly there quite often and a normal price is $500CDN. If you could find a deal for anywhere under $500CDN it would be a good one. Check out Orbitz and Delta right now as they have good stuff for the first week of October.

[malcolmk14]

Originally Posted by anyonebutedmonton

I have a question for people:

How much is a decent deal for a flight from Calgary to New York?

I want to leave Oct 4 and return on the 8th....

I have it priced at about 550 per person. Is this a good deal?

$485 a person for Oct 5-8 on Westjet

$506 a person for Oct 5-9.

I'd say anything under $450 is a good deal.

[cmyden]

St Maarten just dropped to $579 USD on Continental for travel between now and Dec 16. (Now the cheapest Caribbean destination that is over 6000 miles roundtrip)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten

[Cactus Jack]

Originally Posted by cmyden

Look into Air Miles or Aeroplan if you have any points. You'll find that they cost the usual amount of miles, even though the flights are currently twice as expensive as normal and likely won't get much cheaper.

Thanks! I booked a flight to the Olympics and it only cost me 15,000 aeroplan points! That was such a steal. I imagine in a matter of months flights to Vancouver, Abbotsford and perhaps Seattle will be exhausted. I can't wait, St. Loomis and I are going to see Canada play the US on February 21st!

[cmyden]

Thanks! I booked a flight to the Olympics and it only cost me 15,000 aeroplan points! That was such a steal. I imagine in a matter of months flights to Vancouver, Abbotsford and perhaps Seattle will be exhausted. I can't wait, St. Loomis and I are going to see Canada play the US on February 21st!

Nice, that's what ours cost as well. Couldn't find any flights back after the gold medal game, so had to come home the morning of.

My bro picked up a flight on airmiles, I think they're 600. He said he had his pick of pretty much any day, any hour he wanted to go.

[SebC]

I'm thinking I'll drive to the Olympics, but I've got a gap between Feb 17th and 25th, thinking it would be cool do something that's not Vancouver with that time. 1 week trip out of Vancouver during the Olympics - any idea if there would be deals, or will everything be super expensive?

[tvp2003]

Originally Posted by SebC

I'm thinking I'll drive to the Olympics, but I've got a gap between Feb 17th and 25th, thinking it would be cool do something that's not Vancouver with that time. 1 week trip out of Vancouver during the Olympics - any idea if there would be deals, or will everything be super expensive?

I'm a big fan of Seattle -- if you've never been, it's definitely worth the ~2 hour drive from Vancouver.

Flights in and out of Vancover will probably be jacked up -- just my guess though.

[SebC]

Originally Posted by tvp2003

I'm a big fan of Seattle -- if you've never been, it's definitely worth the ~2 hour drive from Vancouver.

I've been several times though... hoping to find something a bit more exotic.

[anyonebutedmonton]

Thanks for the help on the flight to New York I ended up getting a pretty good deal on it ($378) on orbitz!

[cmyden]

Thanks for the help on the flight to New York I ended up getting a pretty good deal on it ($378) on orbitz!

From Oct 4-8? You're sure that's the after tax price? I'm not seeing anything nearly that cheap in October.

[Cactus Jack]

^^^ I bought my September 27th round trip flight to Newark for CDN$397.

[anyonebutedmonton]

Its Oct 5 - 8 on Northwest with one stop. Came out to 378 incl. taxes.

[dubc80]

Looking to make a quick trip over the Labour Day long weekend. Sept 4 -7th.

Anyone spot any deals?