'How To Get The Best Deal' Guides

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"I'm a travel junkie who's hooked on deals from YYC." - Chris Myden

2011
14
September
Calgary to Belize or Costa Rica - $634 roundtrip after taxes - throughout winter

United, American Airlines, Continental, and Delta just engaged in a serious fare war to Central America!

They've made an unadvertised price drop to Belize City (BZE) and Liberia, Costa Rica (LIR) down to $634 roundtrip after taxes.

The most affected prices look to be between now and January 2012, although the rest of 2012 looks to have dropped as well.

Belize is probably the most interesting to me, as Belize *never* seems to go on sale and almost always bottoms out at around $1000 roundtrip after tax.


There's also the fact that United's fairly quick, and relatively uncomplicated flights to Belize are part of the drop. There are a lot of complicated flights to Belize out there.

And on top of that, even Christmas looks to be available, which is amazing in and of itself.

So let's start with a sample search to Belize over Christmas...

https://www.kayak.com/flights/YYC-BZE/2011-12-21-flexible/2012-01-04-flexible

Nice!

But try a flexible date search on Kayak between now and January 2012 to Belize City (BZE) and see what comes up for you.

The other thing you should do is click on 'Stops' to make sure you're finding fast flights. Look for ones that are 1 stop each way in Houston. United looks to be the fastest.

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In addition to Belize City, you can find similar price to Liberia, Costa Rica (LIR). You can also try Costa Rica's other major airport, San Jose (SJO) but prices are higher.

Roatan, Honduras (RTB) is another one that is part of this fare war.

No, I have no idea how long it will be available. It's an unadvertised drop,and can come and go at any time.

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2011
12
September
Kalispell to Chicago - $200 roundtrip after taxes - any date

While I do watch for interesting fares out of Montana, the truth is that it's pretty rare to see one that's worth the drive. Allegiant Air has cheap flights to Vegas, but on the major airlines, prices from Montana aren't usually significantly better to warrant the 5 hour drive from Calgary. We're not like Toronto where we can hop across the border to Buffalo. Flying out of the U.S. for us is a significant investment of time.

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2011
9
September
All Inclusive Package: Mayan Rivieria - 7 nights - $532/person after taxes

Yes, that's $532/person after all taxes/fees for flight, hotel, food, drinks, everything.

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2011
7
September
Calgary to New York City - $416 roundtrip after taxes - throughout schedule

UPDATE: September 9th - Take this blog post, and substitute the city of New York for Philadelphia (PHL) and Charlotte (CLT) on United. They've dropped their prices to those cities down to about $340 roundtrip after taxes, across the board, throughout 2011 and 2012.

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2011
6
September
Calgary to Munich for Oktoberfest? - $598 roundtrip after taxes

Air Transat just dropped the price of their September 14-22 flight from Calgary to Munich, Germany down to $598 roundtrip after taxes (about 56% cheaper than the next cheapest airline, British Airways).

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2011
24
August
Labour Day in Mexico? Calgary to Los Cabos, Mexico - $213 roundtrip after taxes

September 3 to 10 from Calgary to Los Cabos, Mexico (SJD) has dropped to $213 roundtrip after taxes. The next cheapest flights are around $550 so it's a true 62% discount.

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2011
17
August
Another Asian city price drop - Seoul, South Korea now at $795 roundtrip after tax

If you've been following my posts lately you know that prices to plenty of major cities in Asia have been dropping like a rock. The focus seems to be on fares up to end of October/early November.

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2011
16
August
Wow, Thailand and Vietnam have gone sub $900 roundtrip after tax

You might remember last week I was excited when flights to Thailand and Vietnam went under $1000 roundtrip after tax.

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2011
12
August
KLM is having a flash sale to Denmark, Turkey, Sweden, Poland - $895 roundtrip after tax + free stopover in Amsterdam

https://www.ydeals.com/forums/topic/6474-klm-flash-fares-to-europe-expires-august-16/

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2011
10
August
Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia are all under $1000 roundtrip after tax at the moment

Those $750 flights to Taiwan, which are incredibly, still hanging around, kind of overshadowed some other amazing prices to SE Asia that are currently available.

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