Frighteningly good prices Dublin to Orlando direct

Truman Burbank

Just booked 7 seats for June, Sat/Sat for €3510 all in, on United site (they codeshare with AL). TIP: If you have any payment problems completing the transaction, click on the red highlighted section just above, and to the right of, where you enter your credit card details, and your confirmation number will come up. 6 letters/digits. Your price is now locked in and you can pay by phone. The number is there.

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keithclancy

http://www.holidaypirates.com/uk-ireland/uk-to-orlando-sanford-248-308-roundtrip-including-taxes

Also this if you want the hassle of going to the uk first.

naughtysmurf

Truman Burbank wrote: »

Just booked 7 seats for June, Sat/Sat for €3510 all in, on United site (they codeshare with AL). TIP: If you have any payment problems completing the transaction, click on the red highlighted section just above, and to the right of, where you enter your credit card details, and your confirmation number will come up. 6 letters/digits. Your price is now locked in and you can pay by phone. The number is there.

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Did you have to cough up the full €3510?

I noticed that as well recently, a saving of €800 for 4 rtn to Orlando with United over AL

Truman Burbank

naughtysmurf wrote: »

Did you have to cough up the full €3510?

I noticed that as well recently, a saving of €800 for 4 rtn to Orlando with United over AL

Yes, BUT held out a few days til the new CC cycle effective today (1st of the month), so not payable til beginning of January. Those prices are also available April/May. TIP 2: If going thru Skyscanner, re-enter the passengers at the site it brings you to rather than 'snap up' the apparent bargain. This can often knock €200, or more, off the overall price as sky scanner does not differentiate children by ages. TIP 3: Disable cookies when booking (ironically I wasn't looking for these flights and only happened upon them because of cookies!!)

I look at totals and divide by 7 to get the pp cost and go by that. As you know €500 is good for a direct flight. AL used to have the random bargain, but their best 'on-off' offering was almost always limited numbers of return flights at €289 each way all in. That is now gone to €335 in their new 'Summer Sale'. You got a good price before right? Think it was yourself!

naughtysmurf

Truman Burbank wrote: »

Yes, BUT held out a few days til the new CC cycle effective today (1st of the month), so not payable til beginning of January. Those prices are also available April/May. TIP 2: If going thru Skyscanner, re-enter the passengers at the site it brings you to rather than 'snap up' the apparent bargain. This can often knock €200, or more, off the overall price as sky scanner does not differentiate children by ages. TIP 3: Disable cookies when booking (ironically I wasn't looking for these flights and only happened upon them because of cookies!!)

I look at totals and divide by 7 to get the pp cost and go by that. As you know €500 is good for a direct flight. AL used to have the random bargain, but their best 'on-off' offering was almost always limited numbers of return flights at €289 each way all in. That is now gone to €335 in their new 'Summer Sale'. You got a good price before right? Think it was yourself!

Yeah, in 2010 got 3 adults & 1 child for €1845 with AL, thanks for the tips,
Just keeping an eye on prices, thinking of sept / oct 2013
Afraid the CC is a bit battered & bruised at the mo AL have a deposit option on that route if you book early enough so that would suit me

Truman Burbank

naughtysmurf wrote: »

Yeah, in 2010 got 3 adults & 1 child for €1845 with AL, thanks for the tips,
Just keeping an eye on prices, thinking of sept / oct 2013
Afraid the CC is a bit battered & bruised at the mo AL have a deposit option on that route if you book early enough so that would suit me

Great. Do recall you saying this before. Would not have known about the AL deposit option otherwise. Had not intended to book flights til Jan and was gonna use that deposit option. Having said that, AL is too much and almost certainly would have gone via NY. TIP 4: The Hilton Grand Vacations Club at Seaworld. €90 night for 4. Sizeable self-catering 1-bedroomed suites with large pull-out for kids. Directly across the road from Seaworld, 7-11, CVS Pharmacy (like Walgreens). Quick queue passes for rides. 3 Pools (plus Kiddy one), waterfalls, playground, cinema, good restaurant, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, grocery/off-licence etc etc. Have stayed here several times. Enroll in The Hilton Honours club points for another Hilton stay or convert them to air miles. Don't book my dates and don't tell anyone else.

naughtysmurf

Truman Burbank wrote: »

TIP 4: The Hilton Grand Vacations Club at Seaworld. €90 night for 4. Sizeable self-catering 1-bedroomed suites with large pull-out for kids.

Afraid there would be a murder with four of us in such close quarters

Have a villa that we have used before lined up for €900 / 2 weeks so happy with that, surprised you didn't consider that with seven travelling but thats a whole other hotel v villa thread, gap in kids ages means disney, universal 50/50 split for us so it suits our needs

Enjoy

Have noticed on tripadvisor that more than a few from the UK are starting to fly indirect via Dublin, some of the prices in £ direct from the UK are very expensive

Truman Burbank

naughtysmurf wrote: »

Afraid there would be a murder with four of us in such close quarters

Have a villa that we have used before lined up for €900 / 2 weeks so happy with that, surprised you didn't consider that with seven travelling but thats a whole other hotel v villa thread, gap in kids ages means disney, universal 50/50 split for us so it suits our needs

Enjoy

Have noticed on tripadvisor that more than a few from the UK are starting to fly indirect via Dublin, some of the prices in £ direct from the UK are very expensive

Would be great if trip didn't have to originate in London. Some other thread here recently, from someone living in Mainland Europe, who booked a 1-stopover long-haul flight via Dublin and was asking could they skip the 1st Dublin segment.

Re the villa v. resort, yes a double discussion! We usually do the fam holiday every 2 years (funds permitting) and like yerselves, have days of 50/50 so someone heads to Universal and sometimes stays at the pools with the kiddy kids. Then stroll over to Seaworld late afternoon/early evening. It's also next door to Discovery Cove. As a veteran holidayer you'll know the Seaworld ticket is for 2 weeks so no rushing around with that (and then no queues cos of the fast pass). We also like that someone can go to the bar in the evening, teens to the cinema and we don't have to make the beds! Villas are great options, and cost effective - no doubt about it - we just like the hotel feel and being able to walk to parks. The Hilton rooms are separate with tellys etc, that's how we're still breathing :cool:. Actually for anyone thinkin of the 3 Hilton resorts in Orlando, those points are 'double-dip', so you get hotel points AND air miles. Usually equals 2 free nights (not while there). The Hilton will price-match any 3rd party booking site.

FINAL TIP 5: If booking for more than 1 person, start your flight search with 1 person and then go to 2, 3, 4......etc as there may be the same price seats for 3 people but not for 4, and you'll automatically get the 4 seats at the higher price (AL, for example would give the higher price for a group booking of 10 if there were only 9 seats available at the cheapest price). Not all sites show how many seats are available at the cheapest price. We have often split bookings with 2 browsers open, e.g. 5 + 2, to get way better prices and it's always worked out perfectly. United take bookings for kids without an adult, regardless of Kid's age, which is good for one-parent travellers especially if there are not enough cheaper seats left for the entire group. I don't know about AL et al, and am too lazy to check.

Orlando Bound

Are baggage fees included in the price on the united airlines site? And do you have to wait until you get to the airport to check in and select seats?

I'm looking to book return flights to Orlando from Dublin in April and have noticed the far better prices with united. Just wondering if there is a catch?

naughtysmurf

Orlando Bound wrote: »

Are baggage fees included in the price on the united airlines site? And do you have to wait until you get to the airport to check in and select seats?

I'm looking to book return flights to Orlando from Dublin in April and have noticed the far better prices with united. Just wondering if there is a catch?

First checked bag per passenger is free transatlantic (23kg / 50Lbs) $100 for a second bag

TingTong

Just checked out the United site. 2 adults and two kids + infant to Orlando from Dublin €4,136.00 for July. Then onto AA.com same dates and pax, came in at €2,750.00. A no brainer me thinks!

naughtysmurf

TingTong wrote: »

Just checked out the United site. 2 adults and two kids + infant to Orlando from Dublin €4,136.00 for July. Then onto AA.com same dates and pax, came in at €2,750.00. A no brainer me thinks!

Yep, both AA & United are much better than AL at the moment for the dates I'm interested in, AL would want to get a grip on reality. I'd expect AL's prices to come down though
Prefer to fly direct with AL but when you are making considerable savings with others indirect, as long as the stopover isn't too long, as you say yourself, a no brainer

TingTong

naughtysmurf wrote: »

I'd expect AL's prices to come down though.

I would not hold my breath for AL's prices to come down. From many years of travelling to Orlando my experience is once the prices come out 330 days before your departure, the only way they go is up.

naughtysmurf

AL flights Dub - Mco in Oct now just under €2400 for three adults + one child, that's a bit better than the +3k a month ago