We Have our Tickets!
Posted in Airplane Tickets, Costa Rica, General Travel Tips on Oct 25th, 2008
We bought our tickets last night. I have an article about our ticket search here. Spirit raised their prices on me. They went up two hundred bucks on the airfare. It actually turned out in our favor. I ditched the idea of coming back the 31st and started looking at coming back on the 3rd or 4th of January. I went to Orbitz and saw that US airways had the lowest fare. I went to the US Airways website and saw an even cheaper price there. US Airways is also using Bill Me Later. This is service that allows you to pay for stuff later and in installments. They run a credit check based on your name and the last four digits of your social security numbers. My wife is a first time user so we have 90 days interest free to pay the tickets. We have the money to buy the tickets right now but why not space out the payments, interest free, for the next four months? You have 90 days interest free but by the time you get your first statement and all that jazz its closer to for months.
Anyhoo, the tickets came out to $950 for both. This is a tiny bit cheaper than the original Spirit Air(no longer available) price BUT we get to stay four more days! That includes New Years. You are not going to find a much better price than that to fly to Costa Rica during the holiday season. The only drawback is that US airways flies from Tampa up to North Carolina and then back down to Costa Rica. They are still two fairly short flights and we arrive in Costa Rica in the early afternoon. Flying with Spirit on those dates would have cost $500 more. I’ll take the extra flight time.
Some people believe in waiting till the last minute to book their flight. On the one hand you may get a great discount; on the other you may not be able to get a seat. I’ve flown to Costa Rica many times and I know that $475 is a great price for travel to Costa Rica during the Holiday Season. I’ll be keeping an eye on prices and if they drop I will let you know.
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