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My wife and I are planning a 2 week trip to London in February. I believe this is the off season for travel there. Airfare is now about $550 for economy. We wonder if it makes sense to wait for a deal on both airfare and hotels and where those deals may be.
A few questions. Where do you live? How often do you visit London? What are your price and amenity hotel requirements?
Vis a vis favorite or desired neighborhoods, room size, breakfast included, B & B vs. hotel. Also, what are your plans for the two weeks in London? We often do one week of west end shows, shows, shows and then go off exploring such as Bath, Warwick, Oxford, Brighton, Hastings, Leeds etc.
I will add that I assume there are always air/hotels combo deals available. Do you read and have you researched both the L.A. and N.Y. Sunday Travel sections....often a gold mine of vendor's and airline's package ads. Have you checked with British Air and American for their own air/hotel packages. In the past we've enjoyed using American packages while reaping about 7,000 miles each into the best frequent flyer program...American AAdvantage.
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Answers by Expert:
Stephen Tanenbaum
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FREE GLOBAL & DOMESTIC TRAVEL which always beats discount travel. In recent years we have enjoyed free travel to such destinations as Africa, Israel, Australia, Brazil, France, New Zealand, Hawaii, England, Greece, Alaska and our lower 48. Other budget travel areas include such as air brokers, rebate travel agencies, renting a Paris/Barcelona apartments for as little as $65/night (depending on length of stay and size of apt.), sightseeing and general TIPS on travel related comfort, safey/convenience and day to day SAVINGS. Since we travel Free 95% of the time I DO NOT OFFER ADVICE ON CHEAPEST, LOWEST PRICED AND/OR LAST MINUTE AIRLINE FARES. Such deals are best found by diligent Google research & reading the N.Y. and/or L.A. Sunday best in the U.S. Travel sections. FREE airline deals may NOT be available to non-U.S. residents.
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