Traveling mid-week to beat the high cost of airfare...
#1
Posted 23 June 2008 - 04:05 PM
Duh!! We've all known that traveling on Tue or Wed is cheaper but NOW many airlines have cut travel to various destinations especially in the Caribbean to Wed and then Friday & Sundays or Wed, Saturday and Sunday.
So what do you think?
Would you do a trip Wed to Wed and burn an extra day of vacation in order to save money on an airline ticket? Would you consider doing a 10 day trip vs a 7 day trip so you could fly (1) day on the weekend and perhaps (1) mid-week date?
Its time to plan 2009 trips so this information would be very helpful to us!
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#2
Posted 23 June 2008 - 04:29 PM
#3
Posted 23 June 2008 - 04:46 PM
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#4
Posted 23 June 2008 - 05:09 PM
#5
Posted 23 June 2008 - 05:11 PM
I really appreciate the feedback as I will be making decisions on trips for NEXT year...in the next couple of months!
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#6
Posted 23 June 2008 - 06:06 PM
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#7
Posted 23 June 2008 - 08:04 PM
#8
Posted 23 June 2008 - 09:52 PM
#9
Posted 23 June 2008 - 11:11 PM
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#10
Posted 24 June 2008 - 06:09 AM
First if you have only 15 days of time off and want to do three trips a year, it may end up as two 8day/7night trips and one long weekend trip. This situation may save some dollars, but for dive trips it could total up as two less dive days over the three vacation trips.
The other thing is if you take a Wednesday to Wednesday vacation, in many places you are actually blocking two weeks. Other folks can't get time off in either week or maybe you can't take off since somebody else already requested time off in one of the weeks. Also related to mid-week trips, I have had bosses that treat this like two weeks off. HR doesn't care, but the bosses don't expect you to work "much" on both the Mon/Tues before and the Thur/Fri after. So just the idea of asking off for Wed-Wed vacation annoys some bosses and they "act weird" about it. Speaking of it the idea not being received well, I have never blocked rooms with resorts, but I would imagine a destination resort would consider a Wed-Wed group to be a bad thing too.
So what will I do?
Maximize-- Like other folks, maximize trips. That means 9 day trips [Sat to the 2nd Sun] or 10 day trips [Fri-2nd Sun] [Sat-2nd Mon] and maybe an 11 day trip [Fri-2nd Mon] where one of the bookend days is a holiday.
Choose Carefully-- I will look much closer at the total price for the trip versus the value in going there. Places with so-so diving will not make the cut. And the resorts are feeling the pain too with much lower bookings. So some are raising prices to cope with their higher costs, but others are working hard to fill rooms and thereby offering great sales / incentives. So much higher flight costs can get softened by some savings on the land part-- I will carefully choose the whole trip. That also means looking only at dive destinations that still have competition with more than one "major" airline flying on my travel days.
BTW, SD did offer mid-week trips this year. I was interested in both the FG and Tortugas trips. The only reason I did not sign up was since they were mid-week trips.
So one last thought regarding doing more mid-week trips... There may be some pain involved if you pick a place like Dominica and then find out that the airlines serving the island lower frequency. It will not be the Sat / Sun flights that are dropped.
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#11
Posted 24 June 2008 - 06:21 AM
However I am finding many places in the Caribbean are offering only Wed, Sat and Sun flights so that means 7, 8 or 10/11 day options will become more the norm.
The first test of this will be the Bonaire trip we are setting dates for next year.
Thank you all for CONTINUED feedback. It will help me tremendously!
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#12
Posted 24 June 2008 - 07:05 AM
So that really becomes the dilemma. Do you travel during high season where you have more options or go for a lower cost trip during off season with less options?
As far as longer Caribbean trips go, I think it would depend on the location. Like maybe a combined Roatan/Utila, or a liveaboard+land package or something like that.
Getting that much time off can be a challenge, and lately I have been trying to save that for the trips where multi-day travel (like Australia) almost requires it. Especially if the trip is not arranged around a holiday, which I can maximize my days off.
Edited by georoc01, 24 June 2008 - 07:24 AM.
#13
Posted 24 June 2008 - 09:43 AM
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#14
Posted 24 June 2008 - 10:31 AM
#15
Posted 24 June 2008 - 10:38 AM
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