Canaries in Feb - any suggestions?

Stabilo

I thought I read recently that one of the cheap carriers were adding Tenerife to its schedule. I can't find any details, does anyone know which carrier it is?

Mum, dad, grandma and 6 month old (in Feb) are looking for a weeks holiday in the Canaries, preferably Tenerife. We are looking to go in Feb 06 but not during the half term. Quite happy to arrange a DIY affair. We can find appartments that are cheap enough but the flights are around £200 each with taxes etc (£30 for the baby).

saveapenny

Flying from where?

If its Gatwick you might be in luck

Flight number From To Class Depart Arrive
Outbound BA6998 Gatwick (London),United Kingdom Sur Reina Sofia (Tenerife),Spain Economy (Traveller) Wed 15 February 2006 ,14:40 Wed 15 February 2006 , 18:55
Inbound BA6999 Sur Reina Sofia (Tenerife),Spain Gatwick (London),United Kingdom Economy (Traveller) Wed 22 February 2006 ,19:55 Wed 22 February 2006 , 23:59

Price breakdown Fare per person plus taxes, fees, charges and surcharges* per person Total
3 Adults £ 62.00 £ 37.10 £ 297.30
1 Infant £ 6.00 £ 24.70 £ 30.70
* The price of your ticket includes a security and insurance surcharge and a fuel surcharge per sector levied by the carrier. It may also include an online booking fee per passenger per ticket. For details please click here.
If you choose to pay using a credit card you will incur a credit card surcharge of £2.00 per ticket.
Total flight price £ 328.00(UK Pounds)
There is a few other dates at the same price

Forgot to add its from BA.Com but you might have guessed with the flight code

NEWBIE_SHOPPAHOLIC

We always travel with monarch from Birmingham airport, and weve just come back from tenerife and paid £40 each way for flights, they are day flights and they are scheduled (tenerife charter flights notoriously delayed). We have travelled with this flight 3 times to tenerife now and always been on time, nice new planes too.

Hope this helps

Stabilo

NEWBIE_SHOPPAHOLIC wrote:

We always travel with monarch from Birmingham airport, and weve just come back from tenerife and paid £40 each way for flights, they are day flights and they are scheduled (tenerife charter flights notoriously delayed). We have travelled with this flight 3 times to tenerife now and always been on time, nice new planes too.

Hope this helps

Thanks, I read elsewhere that Monarch are reasonable and Birmingham is fine. How late (or early) did you book to obtain £40 flights and did that include taxes etc?

mikemoate

http://www.jet2.com/

Fly from Leeds/Bradford 3 times a week. Coming up circa £150 each early February

NEWBIE_SHOPPAHOLIC

Hi stabilo,

We have booked the tickets via the monarch website usually a few weeks in advance, but you may be able to book now. we have also booked at the last minute and had no probs, taxes were inclusive.
The plus point is that you can go online and pick your seats at no extra cost from a plan, having a well placed, good seat is obviously a benefit to you with having a bambino, I would think.

Hope I helped!

saveapenny

6th -13th from BHX - TFS is £402.97 with Monarch
Thats the cheapest I seached via UFly or 5th -12th same price

scottishlizzie

We want to go during the half term week - insane I know! Would we be cheaper doing a package for this week or could we still do it cheaper DIY? We want to stay away from the the really touristy bits but hear it is sunnier in the south. Thinking about Los Gigantes. Any one been there? We also want an apartment rather than a hotel.

vale_2

Flying Feb half term with monarch from luton.
cost total £255...sooo much cheaper than the dodgy charters!!

vale_2

oh yeah...thats for 2 adults!!

lizzie...we stay at a friends apartment on Golf del Sur. Not a massive ammount going on there but quite up market and great for a base for touring the island.

Have a good one!!

vale_2

hope this works for you
http://www.flymonarch.com/skylights/cgi-bin/skylights.cgi

cheers