soulcompromise
Active Member
Finding a good ticket price can be tricky, especially during the holiday and tourist favorites for travel; you're competing with high demand and the airlines have a good notion for how to maximize their profit during the months of July and August especially. For my part, I had a one way to my destination and didn't know when I'd be returning exactly so just left it. What I found was between flying, landing, and checking in, prices had increased twofold!
What I learned is that you can extend your stay to wait for prices to come down. If you're like me, it may mean staying the course at a smaller property, making a new reservation for a lesser nightly rate, or financing the greater cost with a microlender (here we have one called Affirm) so that it doesn't have such an impact on your next month's budget.
But what happened with me is I got stranded! I am lucky enough to have a little bit of purchasing power with the microlender so as to procure a return ticket and also to extend the stay until a time such that the ticket will not be 100% higher than normal.
But it meant extending my stay until the ticket came down. At some point the cost of extending your stay to wait for more amicable airline prices increases your hotel expense by about the same amount.
Monitor the ticket prices or send alerts to your phone. Even take a flight with several stops or lengthy layovers! In the end you'll be dramatically reducing your costs, even if it means hanging out longer than normal at an airport terminal or spending during a really long layover on a nearby (or in-the-airport) hotel.
I learned during this trip that sometimes there is even a place to take a shower for €20.
What I learned is that you can extend your stay to wait for prices to come down. If you're like me, it may mean staying the course at a smaller property, making a new reservation for a lesser nightly rate, or financing the greater cost with a microlender (here we have one called Affirm) so that it doesn't have such an impact on your next month's budget.
But what happened with me is I got stranded! I am lucky enough to have a little bit of purchasing power with the microlender so as to procure a return ticket and also to extend the stay until a time such that the ticket will not be 100% higher than normal.
But it meant extending my stay until the ticket came down. At some point the cost of extending your stay to wait for more amicable airline prices increases your hotel expense by about the same amount.
Monitor the ticket prices or send alerts to your phone. Even take a flight with several stops or lengthy layovers! In the end you'll be dramatically reducing your costs, even if it means hanging out longer than normal at an airport terminal or spending during a really long layover on a nearby (or in-the-airport) hotel.
I learned during this trip that sometimes there is even a place to take a shower for €20.
if I get my way then yeah 