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Mid-Week
Travel - Great Savings?
It’s no big secret that plane flights and
hotels are nearly empty Monday through Thursday and become
full again Friday through Sunday. Because of this down time
airlines, hoteliers, rental car agencies and entertainment
venues often offer reduced rates on weekday flights, hotel
stays and rentals and for the budget minded travelers it
can work out as great savings.
As
a basic rule it’s always cheapest if you limit your plane
flights to Monday through Thursdays and fly when the crowds
are already at their destinations, or have yet to take their
upcoming weekend flights. In addition to saving money by
flying during weekdays you’ll be saving on your sanity and
patience, you’ll be rewarded with better service from less-frazzled
airline staff, a wider choice in available seating and more
space to breathe. Nearly always, in order to secure the best
deal on your flights, you’ll need to spend a Saturday night
at your destination. While flying on weekends is an expensive
proposition sometimes it’s simply unavoidable, in those cases
limiting your weekend take offs or departures will still
offer you savings versus flying on Friday or Saturday. In
addition to the savings you will get on mid-week travel--don’t
forget about the saving available to travelers willing to
travel on Thanksgiving Thursday and Friday, New Year’s Day
and Christmas morning. The airlines are usually very empty
and you can get a great deal on travel on those down days.
Most online search engines will require that you enter specific
travel dates in order to search for fares, but also at Travelocity
and Orbitz, you can enter just the departure and destination
cities and the search engine will run a specialized search
tell you which dates have the cheapest fares. In order to
use this money saving search tool on Travelocity select the
‘flexible dates‘ option in the main search screen and when
using Orbitz use the ‘find low fares for weekends and flexible
trips‘ option. The lowest airfare for a range of dates will
be displayed on the results screen and from there you can
select the best deal for your budget and your calendar.
Hotels
also offer greatly reduced rates during weekdays when most hotels are virtually empty, save for
the random
business traveler and the financially savvy vacationing family.
You can look for mid-week hotel deals at sites such as Hotels.com
and Price line and Hotwire. Additionally, you can get great
deals on mid-week rooms at select Bed & Breakfasts across
the United States at Bed & Breakfast Inns Online.com,
which allows you to search for weekday Bed & Breakfast
specials by State.
You can also get reduced
rates on rental cars at nearly
every major rental agency by searching on their individual
websites for midweek specials. For example, Dollar Rent A
Car recently advertised an intermediate car for $34.99 per
day or a minivan for $39.99 per day, when you rent the car
for 3 days or more and pickup on a Sunday through Wednesday
at selected locations. This is only one of many examples
of weekday rental discounts available at most of the major
car rental firms.
If you are looking to take in a show at your destination,
you will also get a great rate on tickets when you purchase
tickets to a weekday show. An example recently found on the
website of discount Broadway ticket provider, Entertainmentlink
was an orchestra ticket to the Wednesday matinee of Les Miserables
for only $65, as opposed to $110 for the same seat at Saturday‘s
matinee showing. #
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