Have you found yourself with Spring Break quickly approaching and you have yet to book your trip? Don’t start stressing out yet, just be smart. I know everyone wants to go on Spring Break, but there is really no reason to blow all of your savings on one trip! I’m going to Cozumel, Mexico this year…staying at an all inclusive hotel…and have pretty good flights — total cost = $1,078. This is a little bit more than I have spent for my past 2 trips for Spring Break, but we are also flying further (before we only went to the Bahamas).
Expect to pay more for Spring Break the further you travel and the more “spring breakers” that will be there. If it is a hot Spring Break location, obviously the prices are going to skyrocket around the time you want to travel.
Some last minute tips:
1. Priceline.com – Priceline lets you name your own price! I have never actually used Priceline, but I heard it works really well for last minute deals, you just have to keep your fingers crossed! Here is a BidOnTravel website that gives you some ways to bid on Priceline and how it works for finding cheap airfares.
2. Wednesday Morning Fares — Many of the websites such as orbitz.com or bookit.com release new and often cheap flights early on Wednesday mornings. Although this may be a weird time to look for flights, you may really benefit by finding a cheap flight. I once found a flight at 3am on a Wednesday morning that brought my trip down by $200!
3. Bookit.com – I think it this is a really great site to use! I only recently found it because I had been stuck on using Orbitz and Expedia, but we found really great deals on 4 star hotels on this website for our Spring Break this year. You need to keep searching! Things aren’t going to always pop off the page at you, but you need to search for things. It takes a little bit of time and patience, but saving money will feel great in the end.
4. Airline Websites — I know this seems a little “old school” and doesn’t let you compare prices with other airlines, but often airlines will post discounted flights on their website only. American Airlines offers a college portal for college students only and right now has a Spring Break link where you can enter to win a Spring Break round-trip tickets for two!
Just rememeber, stay patient! Something will come around. Don’t waste all of your savings, you really want to keep those for when you want to travel somewhere else…or even for when you come home from Spring Break and still have a few months left of school.
Good luck!
August 6th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
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April 15th, 2009 at 8:39 am
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