Christmas in Orlando

xraylady

We have gone to Orlando for past few Years at Christmas. Not going this year but saw travel pirates post and checked flights and there are very good rates. Direct flights Dub Orlando 23/12 to 6/1 just over 2k for three adults 1 child. We paid at least 3k (? 3.5) last year, So pounce if it suits you as won't get better.
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snubbleste

The C word in June! :mad:

mackcracknsack

Only 199 days to go!!! :P

The back to school stock is already in the shops :eek:

Another week or two we will have both Halloween and Christmas stock :mad:

daheff

Nice....cant see the OH going for it though.....guess I'll be lonely this Chriiismas


/I'll get my coat

griffdaddy

Christmas in Orlando, Wow wow wow!
Gimme lots of presents, Now now now!

mikeym

Disneyland is also open Christmas day.

I heard its good that day.

slave1

Great price if anyone can plan that far ahead, we're heading there at the end of the month, €1.7k for the 5 of us so there are bargains to be had but you have to sit on the net to find them out...

Streetwalker

I'd be lucky to get down the pub at Xmas never mind Disneyland.

SeamusFX

slave1 wrote: »

Great price if anyone can plan that far ahead, we're heading there at the end of the month, €1.7k for the 5 of us so there are bargains to be had but you have to sit on the net to find them out...

That's €340/person, that's unreal for anytime of the year, especially in late June. I'm going to NY next week and I paid almost €600, where did you get that deal??

BBMcQ

Bear in mind going to the U.S. is currently awful value due to the exchange rates. Airlines know this and have seen reduced transatlantic sales so are dropping the prices. You are likely to pay more for hotel and everything else over there...

SeamusFX

stuartmchugh wrote: »

Bear in mind going to the U.S. is currently awful value due to the exchange rates. Airlines know this and have seen reduced transatlantic sales so are dropping the prices. You are likely to pay more for hotel and everything else over there...

I don't know about that, as the falling Euro is preventing Irish/Europeans from going to the US, but the strengthening dollar is encouraging Americans to travel to Europe. The airlines don't care who travels where, as long as they have full planes, so if loads of Americans are buying tickets to Ireland, don't expect Aer Lingus or any of the airlines to give us any discounts, as the Yanks will be filling the planes in both directions.

Faith+1

SeamusFX wrote: »

I don't know about that, as the falling Euro is preventing Irish/Europeans from going to the US, but the strengthening dollar is encouraging Americans to travel to Europe. The airlines don't care who travels where, as long as they have full planes, so if loads of Americans are buying tickets to Ireland, don't expect Aer Lingus or any of the airlines to give us any discounts, as the Yanks will be filling the planes in both directions.

True but Europeans tend to travel to the states in greater numbers than Americans to Europe.

I myself go the states every year but currently with the exchange rate being so bad I'm staying this side of the Atlantic. Not that I want to but what choice do I have.

SeamusFX

Faith+1 wrote: »

True but Europeans tend to travel to the states in greater numbers than Americans to Europe.

I myself go the states every year but currently with the exchange rate being so bad I'm staying this side of the Atlantic. Not that I want to but what choice do I have.

Maybe that's because for the past number of years the Dollar has been very weak and the Euro has been strong. This is the strongest the USD has been in years and apparently a lot of Americans who wanted to previously travel to Europe had been holding back due to the weak Dollar and now that it has swung the other way, there could be a big influx of Americans this summer and maybe there will be, as most of the trans-Atlantic flights seem almost all booked out.

sue97

stuartmchugh wrote: »

Bear in mind going to the U.S. is currently awful value due to the exchange rates. Airlines know this and have seen reduced transatlantic sales so are dropping the prices. You are likely to pay more for hotel and everything else over there...

I don't agree, I have been watching flight prices for August to Orlando since November and they are the most expensive in years.

We went for Christmas one year and weather is lovely but the parks were absolutely mobbed, far worse than Easter or Summer

xraylady

When we were there last Christmas, weather was just ok. Warm in middle of the day but needed fleeces morning and evening. Wouldn't have been warm enough for water parks. Other Parks were mobbed - unpleasantly so. Most of the Dub/MCO direct flights around this period are pricey. It was just that these two weeks were €250 ish each way while days around them were in the 400's each way. If it suited it could be a 'bargain' for someone... You spend a lot of money out there though, no doubt about that.