What's the cheapest travel deal you've ever found?
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Back in October my wife wanted to go visit her dad in Florida since he hadn't seen us since February. We decided to drive down to avoid air travel with the whole family, but I had only a week of vacation to use, which is rather limited time to drive from Wisconsin to Florida and back.
So we decided I would drive down with them, fly back to Wisconsin, work for a week, then fly back down and meet them for that last week. This way I'd be the only one having to fly.
Flights were really cheap for obvious reasons. But, my flight from Tampa Bay to Chicago was only $25...total...taxes and fees included.
That works out to traveling 40 miles per dollar.
I think even walking is more expensive if you start factoring in food for the calories you burn. (For reference you burn about 100 calories per mile, so you'd need about 4000 calories to walk 40 miles)
This did require me to fly Spirit Airlines, but it was a direct 3.5 hour flight, so short enough to be tolerable.
So Oppo, what's the cheapest travel miles/dollar you've found?
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London Stansted to Stockholm, €5.99.
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I was going to cheat, but you brought up the cost of calories, so... I'm not in the running here.
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@cé-hé-sin Holy crap...about 143 miles per euro (or 120 miles per dollar). I think you are probably going to be the winner here.
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The missus and I booked a round trip flight from Cleveland to LA for $109 TOTAL. American Airlines too, so not even bottom barrel Spirit service. The caveat was both flights took off at 10:30pm.
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I just had a $51 round trip to Chicago (Frontier/United) and next week is $55 round trip to Southern California (Frontier into Ontario). I think the cheapest flight I’ve booked on Frontier was $11 one way. No extra fees involved since I have status so get my seat and carryon free.
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@mastermario I went from Atlanta to Tyumen via JFK then SVO and back again for ~1100.
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The best I've had was my deal to go round trip to Japan for around $650 (canadian dollars). Awesome considering the ticket I bought the first time I went was around $1100.
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@e90m3 while that's a far flight and a decent deal, it still works out to about 11 miles/dollar. So far I think Ce He Sin is going to win with 120 miles per dollar flight from London to Stockholm
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@smobgirl Have you kept track of all the miles you've flown? Curious what you're up to by now.
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@mastermario Not a flight deal, but I've had some pretty killer rental car deals before. IIRC the best was I paid like $200 to rent a Mustang for over a week. The dude looked at my rental contract and said I was paying for my 8 days (or whatever) less than they usually charge per day.
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That would be fun. How'd you score that deal?
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$30 flight from St. Louis to Indy in Southwest. Also, $540 round trip from Dallas to Paris through Detroit on Northwest, when they were still alive.
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@gin-san that’s a huge one.
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Taken rather than just found, I once spent 10 nights in Berlin, RT on Lufthansa from SEA, staying in a solid 4 star hotel, for $1200. That was a nice package deal. I've also had a couple SEA-FRA flights on LH for around $600 RT - for that money, I'll pay rather than use miles, then collect more miles from the flight.
Domestic, $100 RT to LAX or LAS comes up now and then from SEA, I think I did ORD for around $200, and a little more to ATL once, all on Alaska or Delta, main cabin.
I had a Chinese co-worker who often found SEA-PVG for under $500.
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I just did the math and my E-Scooter gets 975 miles from $1 dollar of electricity at my local rates. Now its not as time effective, since it would take 54 hours ride time and 240 hours charge time to get that far which even if stealing electricity from random mcdonalds power outlets still wont outweigh food costs.
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My dad flew Spirit airlines once and told me "the fares are low because you're paying to takeoff, not land."
That being said, I haven't gone on a lot of cheap trips, though flights from FL to MD have been as low as $50 with SouthWest (gotta get those rapid rewards points haha).
Update: I did just find a Spirit Airlines flight from FL to MD for $17 bucks, which is the lowest I've ever seen an airline ticket period. But you get what you pay for I suppose.
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@chariotoflove although it's yet to be seen if this trip will come to fruition.
Originally, our travel date was April 2020, then shit happened; the tickets were purchased November 2019 but we got a full refund for those. We repurchased tickets in July this year for a new trip booked May 2021. Oddly enough, the deals were basically the same price, but our May 2021 flights are favourable since we only fly through Canada with Air Canada instead of our initial flight plan which took us through the USA first with United/ANA.
Luckily, if we have to cancel our 2021 trip again at the very worst we get vouchers back with no expiry date, so we're essentially just giving AC interest-free loans for the time being.
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@gin-san what a pain!
