Does anyone have any ideas what is the cheapest fly drive for September 2010 for 4 adults going for 2 weeks. The cheapest i have found up tp now is with Thomas Cook at a price of £1932. Is anyone able to beat this price.

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garyrush28:

Does anyone have any ideas what is the cheapest fly drive for September 2010 for 4 adults going for 2 weeks. The cheapest i have found up tp now is with Thomas Cook at a price of £1932. Is anyone able to beat this price.

Thanks

Destination ?? Assume Florida.

Your best bet it to go to Trailfinders. I have heard they can be difficult to beat.

Huckster

Hi Yes sorry it is to Florida. Thanks i will have a look at Trailfinders. The main problem seems to be getting the flights cheap enough and according to Travelsupermarket.com the cheapest flights are definately with Thomas Cook but i will keep looking.

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Have you thought about booking the flights and car hire separately ? Acommodation over there is plentiful and relatively cheap so you only really need your first night booked before you go (and only then because you need an address for the immigration form). If you're not planning it already make sure you see more of the State than Orlando.

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Yes i have priced up the flights and car separately. The car hire was £240 for 2 weeks and the flights were around £435 with baggage allowance, so this is a bit cheaper. The problem is that when i go to book the flights for my Daughter and three other teenagers they want the whole amount and they haven't got the money yet, but if i book fly drives they only want a deposit of £800 which makes it a bit more affordable. Because they are charter flights they will only go up in price as time goes on hence the need to book as early as possible. If there are cheaper fly drives out there i would be grateful if someone could let me know.

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I have done many trips to the USA and have booked all of them independently, because deals can be got on car hire and also on the flights.

Register on the sites of any major airlines that fly to your intended destination (you will be getting scheduled flights with better legroom). About once a month they will send you an email with deals for about up to 6 or 8 months ahead. £435 doesn't sound too good for a flight to Florida. as you mention it includes baggage allowance but you probably get a beter baggage allowance with a scheduled flight anyway, like 2 bags, 23kg in each.

A good screenscraper site for car hire and flights and I have used them for USA and Far East is kayak.co.uk. The best deal through kayak on cars was with Hertz last year, I rented a Lincoln Town Car for $46 a day including the top-up insurances and they waived the $150 one way drop charge (pick-up in Nevada, drop in California). Smaller cars can be rented much cheaper, when I looked recently. Currently you can get a small car for £10 a day or a Dodge Charger for £19 a day including the insurances like CDW and Supplemental Liability, these are important.

I don't know if you have a fixed date in September to travel, but with some airlines their cheaper fares start in the second half of September.

Have fun planning your trip.

Thanks for the last post but i have scoured the web for flights to SFB orlando and can not find them any cheaper Travelsupermarket found Thomas Cook as being the cheapest. Kayak will not search that far ahead (only 12 months)Maybe i will register with some of the major airlines and see what happens but talking to a Thomas Cook agent they reckon that the longer i leave it the higher the price will go. If you have had cheaper flights than this please let me know where you got them from.

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Scheduled Airlines will only start quoting fares from 10 or 12 months ahead and the better deals are sent by email newsletter which you can sign up for on the relevant airline sites.

You are trying to book up way too far ahead, Thomas Cook agents are just after their Brownie points for getting your booking and will tell you any reason to get you to book up now. In 11 US trips including this recession and the last one I have never booked up more than 4 months ahaead and once only 36 hours ahead. In June this year flights to Los Angeles longer distance) were been offered for £100 less than you were quoted for a shorter flight. I suggest you start looking about 6 months ahead and this will be plenty of time, if it were peak season like school holidays or Easter then an earlier booking would be advisable.

I sustained a bad injury to my leg after my last trip and had to book a First Class ticket to SE Asia only a week ahead of my schedule and Kayak got me a fare of £2840 which was £2100 cheaper than was being offered with other airlines.

The only time that airline fares get higher is if the airline sees the demand like Sunday flights (long haul) and Monday morning red-eye flights (short haul) as well as Easter, Christmas etc then only a small percentage of seats will sell at lower prices and then they increase the fare as more and more seats sell out. If you are a little flexible with your travel dates then you can even get better deals as some airline websites give different prices over a whole week.

Have just done a quick search for this year to compare, in late September United Airlines, booked through Ebookers are by far the cheapest @ £359 per adult inc all taxes and fees, and that is on a nice Boeing 767 wide body jet, some charter operators use aircraft with more seats and much less legroom.