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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not pp.  But those who don't think it is believable obviously don't know how to budget travel. Sure, if you refuse to have any flexibility, that will be true.   But I have done many trips to Europe for less than $3k for my small family.  It just takes some work.  I did one trip to Japan for 3 people over cherry blossom season for only $2500; found a great flight, biggest other expense was the train pass.  I have saved tons of money by going to Thailand for 3 weeks.  Flights were about $2k total (fly on Thanksgiving or Christmas day), but rooms were only about $40 for amazing local places.  Definitely came back to more in my bank account than had I stayed home.[/quote]

The reason people don't have flexibility is the school schedule.  If you are flying over christmas day, okay, how are you staying there for 3 weeks?[/quote]

Thank you! I am side-eyeing the Japan for 3 for $2,500. Is one under the age of 2? How many days?[/quote]

It was 6 days over spring break.  I had been waiting for a good deal to somewhere. I had lots of trackers working for me. Then $500 tickets to Tokyo popped up.  I bought them instantly (3 of them).  There was only one night of a decent hotel in our price range (under $150) in kyoto because of cherry blossom season.  Most of the time we stayed in Tokyo.  But we never changed our hours, so we could get to everything super early when it was empty.  On one day, we took the fast train to Kyoto at around 5am, checked our bags into the train station to not lose time in storing them, and just stayed the one night we found. Then we took a late night train back to Tokyo.  Getting up super early (on our regular time schedule) allowed us to see all the major sites without anyone else there.  You name it and we probably did it. [/quote]

That’s amazing and I think you got super lucky.  Which flight tracker did you use and were those direct flights?
I’ve never really used those flight trackers — is there a way to track like business class or premium economy?  There’s no way my husband would fly to Asia in economy.  He’d be unable to walk for a full week after that, I think.[/quote]

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