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Yahoo Package price of the plane ticket alone
I went to a party yesterday in Boston and a group of friends is taking a
bus tour thru Germany this weekend. I'm not working right now, so I figured I'd meet them over there if I can find a decent deal. I tried site59, orbitz,lastminutetravel.com and others - a few deals to Europe but none to Berlin. (They're going over a few days before the bus tour and the first 2 days of the tour are in Berlin) I checked airline tickets online and big bucks - depending on the airline the price varies from $2000 - $6000 r/t. Travel.yahoo.com ( aka Travelocity) showed me 2 columns: "Airfare Only" and "With Hotel" $2007 $1553 Huh ? $1600 WITH a hotel room ? I then checked "Vacation Packages" on Yahoo and taking the SAME flights that Yahoo shows as a $2007 ticket , I also get a cheap hotel included - for $1553. That's better ! For that money, I'll upgrade the hotel and stay in town after they leave on their bus tour. I checked maps and picked the hotel, doublechecked the info and compared the Yahoo air price to the Air France website price ( to see if I can get a better deal directly from Air France, but it was displayed in Euros). It took me a few minutes to find / downloaded a currency calculator and - my session expired . But I had taken a snapshot of the webpage, so I plugged the info back in and ... it was now only $1491 !! Excellent ! By then it was 11:30pm and I'm thinking - at midnight something's gonna change - only 3 days in advance ... ticket prices don't go DOWN ! Was it the hotel or the airfare ?? No time to find out - I chose the flights and the hotel again, typed in all my info quickly ( before the session expired ) and it went through. SO, I not only got THAT same flight both ways, BUT I also got 6 nights at a 5 star hotel included for a total of $1771 . The hotel is normally $180+ per night for a room -- so using Yahoo Travel math : ( ( 6 * $180 ) + $2007 ) = $1771 Go figure. Point of the story - have it check for "Air + Hotel ": even if I didn't go to the hotel, I'd save money by buying the cheap package. Bobb |
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