Thursday, December 17, 2009

Make Sure Your Holiday Offer Is The Best Deal Around

By Alison Gilmour

Two of the essential components of a holiday are the flight seats and the accommodation. Depending on your destination the price of the flight seats could be more expensive than the accommodation part of your holiday. If you want to save cash this could be the first place you should look to try and spare as much as feasible.

You have a couple of alternatives when it comes to reserving flights and this partly depends on whom you choose to reserve your flight seats with. If you are looking at using one of the low cost carriers then you must make sure you know the final cost of the flight seats so you can do a comparison.

Most of the cheap airlines do not include very much more than a seat on the flight and someone to fly the plane. You may have to add additional costs just to pay by debit card, check-in for your flight, take luggage on the aircraft and all the other extras they have certainly do add up. Remember to check that the flights are actually going to the destination you want and not thirty miles away. This also adds to the cost and the bother of finally getting to your accommodation. Remember to take all this into consideration and the complete final cost of the flights with all the extras you need.

Other flight companies like some of the vacation charter flights are run by an airline for a vacation firm. It is the vacation firm that decides the price of the flight seats as and when they want. Generally the flights are tied up with accommodation so they can offer a package vacation to you. Sometimes if they have unnecessary seats they can be sold last minute at a cheaper price or if demand for that time is high they could well increase the prices.

Once you have located flights at a price and date you are happy with you can then begin to go ahead at acquiring accommodation. Once you decide on where you want to stay whether it is a certain part of Greece or Portugal have a search around for lodgings in your chosen resorts. Make sure the accommodation have everything you require and it is in a desirable location within the holiday resort.

Add up the price of the flight seats and the accommodation prices and you have a final price excluding any transfers or taxi costs to get you from the airport to your lodgings. Now you have something to equate with the cost of a package holiday. In many cases this can work out cheaper as the holiday firms have access to rates that you will be unable to get. Once you have done this you will be able to reserve your holiday at the optimal cost.

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