Arthur's Blog: Take Advantage of Price Slumps for Travel in January
In the three weeks commencing around January 4th, when everyone has returned from Christmas travels and gone back to work, travel prices slump to almost everywhere in the tropics. A great many smart travelers choose to enjoy a short winter vacation at that time because they know the prices will never be cheaper.
An example is provided in the air-and-land packages offered in early January by the large Apple Vacations (www.applevacations.com). If you will book a flight from Miami to Cancun on Apple, and stay, once there, not for seven nights but for a longer eight nights at the low-rise, four-story-high, 220-room, beachfront Flamingo Cancun Resort in the heart of the "hotel zone" of that popular resort, you'll pay only $759 per person for your round-trip airfare, your round-trip airport-to-hotel transfers, and the hotel for eight nights. This will not include meals, but since you're only a short walk from cafes and restaurants, you can keep food costs to a very small sum.
The package I've cited is for departure on Sunday, January 10, a return flight on Monday January 18. Leave a week later, on January 17, and the price will go up to a still-moderate $848 for an eight-night vacation. That's from Miami, of course; it you leave, say, from New York, you'll pay about $200 more, still keeping your costs below or at $1,000.
Around the same time, but this time from New York and for only a five-night stay in Cancun, you'll pay $979 per person at the higher-quality, beachfront, Grand Parnassus Resort & Spa, this time for all-inclusive arrangements (three meals a day and unlimited drinks) as well as roundtrip airfare and roundtrip airport-to-hotel transfers. And there are numerous other, similarly-priced choices.
So what are you waiting for? If you have about $900 to spend on a winter vacation, and live in most parts of the U.S., the decision to schedule the trip for between January 5 and January 25 will result in your finding numerous bargains for a beachfront interlude of swimming and snoozing in a comfortable hotel.
An example is provided in the air-and-land packages offered in early January by the large Apple Vacations (www.applevacations.com). If you will book a flight from Miami to Cancun on Apple, and stay, once there, not for seven nights but for a longer eight nights at the low-rise, four-story-high, 220-room, beachfront Flamingo Cancun Resort in the heart of the "hotel zone" of that popular resort, you'll pay only $759 per person for your round-trip airfare, your round-trip airport-to-hotel transfers, and the hotel for eight nights. This will not include meals, but since you're only a short walk from cafes and restaurants, you can keep food costs to a very small sum.
The package I've cited is for departure on Sunday, January 10, a return flight on Monday January 18. Leave a week later, on January 17, and the price will go up to a still-moderate $848 for an eight-night vacation. That's from Miami, of course; it you leave, say, from New York, you'll pay about $200 more, still keeping your costs below or at $1,000.
Around the same time, but this time from New York and for only a five-night stay in Cancun, you'll pay $979 per person at the higher-quality, beachfront, Grand Parnassus Resort & Spa, this time for all-inclusive arrangements (three meals a day and unlimited drinks) as well as roundtrip airfare and roundtrip airport-to-hotel transfers. And there are numerous other, similarly-priced choices.
So what are you waiting for? If you have about $900 to spend on a winter vacation, and live in most parts of the U.S., the decision to schedule the trip for between January 5 and January 25 will result in your finding numerous bargains for a beachfront interlude of swimming and snoozing in a comfortable hotel.
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