Florida - When to book? - Any travel agents?

jellynose

Hi

I am thinking of going to Florida last week in July the first week in August. I want fly drive flying from Belfast.

Does anyone know if I should wait until nearer the time with the chance of grabbing a last minute cheaper deal? Any advice really appreciated.

Also does anyone know all the airlines that fly direct from Belfast?

Thanks

jellynose

Has no one on the NI board experience of booking a late flight to Florida

jnd

The following tour operators fly from Belfast to Sanford.

AIRTOURS, DIRECT HOLIDAYS, HOLIDAYS FOR LESS, THOMSON

https://www.icelolly.com usually list late deals. Good Luck.

thePhilster69

We flew out from Dublin last year, which was handy especially with the £9 AirCoach! I think Continental fly from Belfast International to Orlando, with a change in Newark. My parents are flying out to Orlando again this summer, and I think it was around £450 return per person...

raymond

When it was a MyTravel flight, it was only sold by the MyTravel group .. Airtours/Going Places/Holidays Direct etc and they dropped the prices approx 6-8 weeks before departure and the prices varied between each site but now the flight is by Monarch it is sold by more operators eg Thomson and they have also stopped flights in Sept instead of the end of October so demand will probably be higher and you may get nothing if you wait.

jetboy

Direct holidays are probably the cheapest of the mytravel group from BFS. MYT, Direct and Aspro all use the same flight. Continental will fly you from BFS to any USA destination but its all via Newark. Newark is'nt a bad airport to connect through though. A little nearer the time try https://www.holiday-special.com as they specialise in NI/Ireland departures. Another option would be to try getting a deal from BHX and connecting using BMIBaby, Flybe or BA. They're having a price war at the minute on the BHX route. You can get it from £25 return.

jellynose

Thanks to everyone who replied. Raymond I didn't realise that the Florida flight had been sold by the Mytravel group.

Jetboy that is a really good website, I will check it out in a few weeks and see what it comes up with.

Cheers

pob

dont book at the weekend - I went to book a flight to NYC, checked the flights on thursday, they were £360 return, went to book on Saturday, they were £1100 return! Then on Monday, they were back to £360

lynn44

Hi jellynose.
we just booked flights with mytravel 3 weeks ago paid £568 for all 3 passengers but flying from gatwick,going with airtours returning monach,I just had quick look on https://www.travelrepublic.co.uk for end of july its £584 pp :eek: :eek: I had been watching mytravel (CLICK LATE DEALS FLIGHTS) for about 2 months they have gone up and down in price, luckily I booked when they were £568 they shot upto £1300 the following week :eek:
thomsons offered me International Drive (travelodge) all in total £998 so keep eye on web site's, try first choice sure I just read another thread somewhere they were good prices...but you are going at peak times :rolleyes: just keep checking web sites every couple of days
we fly out saturday :T :j good luck

moonrakerz

As you live in Ulster, could I suggest you try flying from the Irish Republic. Aer Lingus do some good fares, and if you fly with them you clear US immigration before you board the plane. Don't know if that applies to other airlines flying from the Republic.

BurntOut

Another option would be to take any easyjet flight to gatwick and then go to florida with https://www.travelcitydirect.com this is who I booked with a while back, prices are excellent.

Have a look you;ll be surprised, how cheap it can be