eric zwicky wrote:
> Riddlebox914@gmail.com wrote:
> > Not if if anyone can help with this.... But my friends and I are
> > planning a furture trip to Amsterdam from Philadelphia. We have all
> > never traveled by plane before and we were wondering ... round trip,
> > roughly how much a person would we need? I was thinking around $1500,
> > maybe $2000 a person... we were plainng on staying about a week, maybe
> > a day or 2 less. Its just I have no experience with travel, and hotels
> > and we are getting an idea. Just planning on seeing a musem or 2,
> > spending some time in the coffee houses, and maybe touring the Heienken
> > Factory.
> >
> > Any comments from an experienced travler would be great!
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>
> start with cheaptickets.com
>
> use the "advanced search" features and check for flights to and from
> amsterdam, but check the "also use other airports within 80 miles" box.
> this will return flights from newark and new york as well, in case
> you are open to flying from those airports if the price is right.
I'm not familiar with cheaptickets.com, but I have found that the best
offline discount travel agents generally have better fares to Europe
than the online airfare sites (Expedia, Travelocity, Yahoo, etc.). In
the major Philadelphia newspaper's Sunday edition, look in the travel
section for small box ads that only list cities and prices. Those are
discount travel agents called "consolidators", and airlines use them to
dump large blocks of unsold seats cheaply. They usually have the best
fares of all.
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