Woo Hoo!
Posted in Airplane Tickets, Costa Rica on Oct 30th, 2008
We bought our tickets for Costa Rica a few days ago. We depart Monday, December 22nd and return Sunday, January 4th. We got both tickets for $958 total. I had originally planned to travel with Spirit but they raised their prices on me by over two hundred dollars. On top of that, the Spirit flight would have returned the 31st of December. I’ll take a significant savings over spending New Years in CR. Happily we no longer have to choose between the two.
I know that 479 dollars is a great price for a flight to Costa Rica during the holidays. I knew that even if there was a price drop it probably wouldn’t be more than fifty bucks. You can travel to Costa Rica in the off season for less than $300 if you are flexible on dates but you’ll never get this fare around Christmastime.
I was checking the US airways website out of sheer curiosity and found the prices had jumped considerably. The price for the same flight and dates is now $1794! I’m glad I trusted my instincts and did not wait till later in hopes of scoring a cheaper flight. If we booked now we’d be spending $836 dollars more.
Sometimes you just have to go with your gut. In this case it worked out for the best.
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I just bought my tickets to Costa Rica two weeks ago. We’re going from Jan 24, 2009 to Feb 7, 2009 and got the tickets for $370 each! I couldn’t believe the great price. I haven’t checked the current prices, but it’s amazing how inexpensive international travel is now.
That is a great price. Its hard to find bargain fares to Europe these days but I am amazed at how cheap it is to fly to Latin American destinations. I hope you guys have a great time!
What airlines did you get such good deals on?
The best fares I found in Florida were from Spirit Air and US Airways. I have an article on finding cheap airfare at http://www.mytraveloptimizer.c.....p-tickets/
You can find the article easily by looking in the archives page.