Anonymous wrote:Go for Spring Break instead. So much cheaper and Europe will be less crowded.

British Airways and Turkish Airlines are both having sales for April.

They are charging $700 a ticket or a little less to:
London
Paris
Milan
Athens

And many other places. Yes, it's less time there. A week or nine days isn't ideal. But it's still an opportunity to go to Europe with your family for half the price as in Summer, and the hot European summers, crowds, and lack of air conditioning become a non-issue.

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, flight prices to Europe have skyrocketed, especially over the summer. I am still finding some good deals for winter, spring break, and particularly for off-season times but actual summer dates are high. I did see some cheaper tickets late summer-fall for July 2024 to Europe; $673 pp personal item only on Play Airlines IAD-Venice. I saw some other similarly priced tickets to Portugal (not Play airlines but BA or Iberia) and some other locations. You might still find some decent prices through Play Airlines, but play around with dates and location and go with minimal luggage....I have never checked luggage with them 1) I'm afraid it will get lost 2) costs $$$ 3) I don't feel like lugging it around.

If you go in August or September or early June, you might find better prices. I do find I need to look CRAZY far in advance these days :/

Tickets were so much less in 2021.

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Anonymous wrote:To Paris in May at 2K round trip. Completely wild.

There are flights in May available for a third of that.

Nobody wants to fly Norse without luggage.

Most want to fly nonstop rather than deal with an impossible 50 minute connection in Lisbon.

Do the previously mentioned three day layover in Lisbon. Win win.

We don’t have time or money for that. Most people don’t.

You are not most people.

I bought tickets to Germany on Icelandair for the last two weeks of August. $1100 each. Could have had cheaper on Scandinavian via Copenhagen but required a 18 hour layover on way back. That could work for some.

Prices after mid August really fell compared to June and July.

Most people want to, let’s say, visit Italy for two weeks. How on earth can they add another three days in Lisbon? It’s extra time and extra money (hotels, food, local travel). In short: it doesn’t end up being a real savings.

If you have an open mind it does. 10 days in Italy and 3 days in Portugal sounds great to me. It's more fun and economical to visit more places in a single trip.

Lisbon is fun for a couple who enjoys food and wine. It’s not exactly a destination for families with little kids.

That's on you. You can certainly have a fun few days in Lisbon with kids. At a certain point, some of you just want to spend excessive amounts on travel. People offer a bunch of ways to save thousands, and yall come up with lots of middling complaints. You then have the nerve to complain about how expensive it is, when it's just because you insist on choosing every hit of convenience over price.

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Anonymous wrote:To Paris in May at 2K round trip. Completely wild.

There are flights in May available for a third of that.

Nobody wants to fly Norse without luggage.

Most want to fly nonstop rather than deal with an impossible 50 minute connection in Lisbon.

Do the previously mentioned three day layover in Lisbon. Win win.

We don’t have time or money for that. Most people don’t.

You are not most people.

I bought tickets to Germany on Icelandair for the last two weeks of August. $1100 each. Could have had cheaper on Scandinavian via Copenhagen but required a 18 hour layover on way back. That could work for some.

Prices after mid August really fell compared to June and July.

Most people want to, let’s say, visit Italy for two weeks. How on earth can they add another three days in Lisbon? It’s extra time and extra money (hotels, food, local travel). In short: it doesn’t end up being a real savings.

If you have an open mind it does. 10 days in Italy and 3 days in Portugal sounds great to me. It's more fun and economical to visit more places in a single trip.

Lisbon is fun for a couple who enjoys food and wine. It’s not exactly a destination for families with little kids.

That's on you. You can certainly have a fun few days in Lisbon with kids. At a certain point, some of you just want to spend excessive amounts on travel. People offer a bunch of ways to save thousands, and yall come up with lots of middling complaints. You then have the nerve to complain about how expensive it is, when it's just because you insist on choosing every hit of convenience over price.

I don’t see how it’s cheaper when you need to factor in hotel, meals, local transport to/from airport/hotel. The savings really isn’t that much. You basically need to do the overnight or two since the layover isn’t long enough to make it through customs and make your connection—particularly in Lisbon where customs is a clusterfu@&.

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Anonymous wrote:To Paris in May at 2K round trip. Completely wild.

There are flights in May available for a third of that.

Nobody wants to fly Norse without luggage.

Most want to fly nonstop rather than deal with an impossible 50 minute connection in Lisbon.

Do the previously mentioned three day layover in Lisbon. Win win.

We don’t have time or money for that. Most people don’t.

You are not most people.

I bought tickets to Germany on Icelandair for the last two weeks of August. $1100 each. Could have had cheaper on Scandinavian via Copenhagen but required a 18 hour layover on way back. That could work for some.

Prices after mid August really fell compared to June and July.

Most people want to, let’s say, visit Italy for two weeks. How on earth can they add another three days in Lisbon? It’s extra time and extra money (hotels, food, local travel). In short: it doesn’t end up being a real savings.

If you have an open mind it does. 10 days in Italy and 3 days in Portugal sounds great to me. It's more fun and economical to visit more places in a single trip.

Lisbon is fun for a couple who enjoys food and wine. It’s not exactly a destination for families with little kids.

That's on you. You can certainly have a fun few days in Lisbon with kids. At a certain point, some of you just want to spend excessive amounts on travel. People offer a bunch of ways to save thousands, and yall come up with lots of middling complaints. You then have the nerve to complain about how expensive it is, when it's just because you insist on choosing every hit of convenience over price.

I don’t see how it’s cheaper when you need to factor in hotel, meals, local transport to/from airport/hotel. The savings really isn’t that much. You basically need to do the overnight or two since the layover isn’t long enough to make it through customs and make your connection—particularly in Lisbon where customs is a clusterfu@&.

You can do it sometimes. I’m flying IAD LAX on miles for free arr 9p PST. I catch a 1a PST flight out to Shanghai with a 4 hr stop in Taipei and arr at noon in Shanghai. Returning I fly from Beijing to Tokyo and do a wk there. NS back Tokyo LAX $398 econ Zip air Arr 9a PST. Miles gets me home for free on a 1p NS LAX IAD. Total cost is $1500 seeing 2 cities.

RT NS IAD Shanghai is $6500 econ on United!!!! This is a June trip priced last wk. with 1 layover SFO or LAX I’m still spending $4400. So I’m breaking up the stops myself and still saving $. I also whenever possible do not fly US based airlines. You can get the points with the alliances and honestly my card points are just as good as airline ones. The other thing is a lot of foreign airlines have nicer amenities and seats more comfy than US airlines.

It does require a lot of researching into fares and planning itineraries to save the money however. It also helps to be able to tap into miles and points to offset shorter flights when flying internationally.

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Anonymous wrote:To Paris in May at 2K round trip. Completely wild.

There are flights in May available for a third of that.

Nobody wants to fly Norse without luggage.

Most want to fly nonstop rather than deal with an impossible 50 minute connection in Lisbon.

Do the previously mentioned three day layover in Lisbon. Win win.

We don’t have time or money for that. Most people don’t.

You are not most people.

I bought tickets to Germany on Icelandair for the last two weeks of August. $1100 each. Could have had cheaper on Scandinavian via Copenhagen but required a 18 hour layover on way back. That could work for some.

Prices after mid August really fell compared to June and July.

Most people want to, let’s say, visit Italy for two weeks. How on earth can they add another three days in Lisbon? It’s extra time and extra money (hotels, food, local travel). In short: it doesn’t end up being a real savings.

If you have an open mind it does. 10 days in Italy and 3 days in Portugal sounds great to me. It's more fun and economical to visit more places in a single trip.

Lisbon is fun for a couple who enjoys food and wine. It’s not exactly a destination for families with little kids.

That's on you. You can certainly have a fun few days in Lisbon with kids. At a certain point, some of you just want to spend excessive amounts on travel. People offer a bunch of ways to save thousands, and yall come up with lots of middling complaints. You then have the nerve to complain about how expensive it is, when it's just because you insist on choosing every hit of convenience over price.

I don’t see how it’s cheaper when you need to factor in hotel, meals, local transport to/from airport/hotel. The savings really isn’t that much. You basically need to do the overnight or two since the layover isn’t long enough to make it through customs and make your connection—particularly in Lisbon where customs is a clusterfu@&.

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Anonymous wrote:To Paris in May at 2K round trip. Completely wild.

There are flights in May available for a third of that.

Nobody wants to fly Norse without luggage.

Most want to fly nonstop rather than deal with an impossible 50 minute connection in Lisbon.

Do the previously mentioned three day layover in Lisbon. Win win.

We don’t have time or money for that. Most people don’t.

You are not most people.

I bought tickets to Germany on Icelandair for the last two weeks of August. $1100 each. Could have had cheaper on Scandinavian via Copenhagen but required a 18 hour layover on way back. That could work for some.

Prices after mid August really fell compared to June and July.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry travel summer June 2022 I got tix in Dec 2021.

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Anonymous wrote:To Paris in May at 2K round trip. Completely wild.

There are flights in May available for a third of that.

Nobody wants to fly Norse without luggage.

Most want to fly nonstop rather than deal with an impossible 50 minute connection in Lisbon.

Do the previously mentioned three day layover in Lisbon. Win win.

We don’t have time or money for that. Most people don’t.

You are not most people.

I bought tickets to Germany on Icelandair for the last two weeks of August. $1100 each. Could have had cheaper on Scandinavian via Copenhagen but required a 18 hour layover on way back. That could work for some.

Prices after mid August really fell compared to June and July.

Most people want to, let’s say, visit Italy for two weeks. How on earth can they add another three days in Lisbon? It’s extra time and extra money (hotels, food, local travel). In short: it doesn’t end up being a real savings.

If you have an open mind it does. 10 days in Italy and 3 days in Portugal sounds great to me. It's more fun and economical to visit more places in a single trip.

Lisbon is fun for a couple who enjoys food and wine. It’s not exactly a destination for families with little kids.

That's on you. You can certainly have a fun few days in Lisbon with kids. At a certain point, some of you just want to spend excessive amounts on travel. People offer a bunch of ways to save thousands, and yall come up with lots of middling complaints. You then have the nerve to complain about how expensive it is, when it's just because you insist on choosing every hit of convenience over price.