My "why Kayak.com is my BFF" saga
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cre8fmom · 05-10-2008, 07:40 AM

A little background:

My DFIL has very generously taken his immediate family (11 of us!) on 4 Royal Caribbean cruises since 2001.

In December, will will be going on the newest Freedom class ship, the Independence of the Seas, for an 8 night cruise over New Years Eve.

I act as the family travel agent, making all the cruise, pre-cruise hotel, as well as airline arrangements,

I have been diligently checking Kayak.com since 330 days out to book airfare.

Round trip from Philadelphia to Ft Lauderdale or Miami was running $500+ per person! I began looking at doing one way fares each way to cut costs

Back in early April, a one way fare popped up on Delta thru Atlanta to Ft Lauderdale for $99 a person, which I immediately snagged! Sincew we go a day early, connecting flights are not a problem.

Now, to book return fares. Because we are coming off a cruise, we couldn't fly before 12:30 pm

Every day, many times a day since then, I checked Kayak.com. I really wanted non- stop on the way home, since it is January 4th, a huge travel day. I didn't want to mess with connecting flights.

US Airways non stop has been stuck at $357 per person for weeks. I was content to wait for Southwest to open the dates up. Friday morning, it jumped to $637!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kayak.com went to work for me, and pulled up a one way fare of $155 per person non stop out of Miami at 3:30 pm!

So, roundtrip for $254 per person!

( I checked again later yesterday, and the same flight had gone to $192, and this morning it was $254!)

So, I guess the moral of this saga is it pays to check many times a day, and perserverence pays off. Being in the right place at the right time didn't hurt either!

**Colexis Mom** · 05-10-2008, 08:15 AM

Great job Jill

jhoshowski · 05-10-2008, 08:41 AM

Congratulations!

j4crew · 05-10-2008, 08:47 AM

That's great!!!

**RobDVC** · 05-10-2008, 02:32 PM

**chezp** · 05-10-2008, 03:05 PM

What great results!

**janicelovesmickey** · 05-11-2008, 11:18 AM

thanks for the info, thats another site I will subsribe too.

**HiddenMickey** · 05-12-2008, 07:31 AM

Good job!!

Mulan2 · 05-13-2008, 10:30 PM

That's great.

I like kayak.com. I use it all the time.

JennyK · 05-14-2008, 10:20 AM

Great job! It seems like airfares these days are like the stock market. I'd never heard of Kayak.com before, but now I think I'll give it a try!

kelkan · 05-14-2008, 10:26 AM

Kayak is really a great site that gives you multiple results for your search....

angelmum123 · 05-14-2008, 11:00 AM

persistance, keep checking, spending time and getting lucky!! Works for me!! (I also go to sidestep.com as well as kayak.com - not that I'm obsessive mind you!!

)

My favorite story using kayak was my parents favorite uncle passed away, and the air fare was so high ($500 pp rt) that only my dad was going to go, mom was so upset, etc... (1 week notice, Ft Myers to Chicago)

and I got them air fare for $220 RT per person!! cheaper than my dad one ticket RT!!

That is magic!!

**simbarel** · 05-14-2008, 11:17 PM

That's great! And what a generous FIL!

**Gembley** · 05-15-2008, 09:35 AM

good job persistance does pay off sometimes

**ljjri** · 05-15-2008, 04:04 PM

Good Job Jill!! I love that site as well.

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angelmum123 Community Rank: Sightseer Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 71	persistance, keep checking, spending time and getting lucky!! Works for me!! (I also go to sidestep.com as well as kayak.com - not that I'm obsessive mind you!! ) My favorite story using kayak was my parents favorite uncle passed away, and the air fare was so high ($500 pp rt) that only my dad was going to go, mom was so upset, etc... (1 week notice, Ft Myers to Chicago) and I got them air fare for $220 RT per person!! cheaper than my dad one ticket RT!! That is magic!!

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