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I know that many of you want to book your own vacations, flights and excursions, so we have created this “Book It Yourself” page to give you access to some great booking and informational tools.
I even use these tools to check prices and compare them to the prices I can get on the travel agent pages to make sure that I get the best prices for myself.
If you want to check air fares on your own, here are a couple of useful links. Links for Fare Buzz, Expedia and Kayak can be found below. Fare Buzz is a great online resource for booking your own flights. Kayak is a great link for locating hotels, car rentals as well as flights. Kayak will generally take you to a third party site such as Cheap Tickets, Priceline, Expedia, etc… to make the purchase.
A very important thing to keep in mind!!! Do your price checking incognito. Have you ever noticed that if you go back to check a flight that the prices are higher than they were when you first checked? The airlines are using cookies to remember what you were searching for and jack up the prices the second time you visit. There is a way around this: do your searches incognito. Here’s how to go incognito, and it’s very simple:
This trick opens a new browser window where your info is not saved. Just be sure to close the window completely when you are finished. One more thing to keep in mind. Book your travel insurance before you book anything else so that you can qualify for “Cancel for any reason” and not lose your investment in travel.
Do your research but don’t make any deposits. Figure out the total estimated costs, then buy your travel insurance. You can adjust it later if your trip expands beyond your initial plans.
Yes, if you do make a deposit for your trip of a lifetime, it is possible to still qualify for the “Cancel for any reason” option if you book that travel insurance immediately. Yes, they do give you a couple of days, but I know that we get busy and before you know it, those few days have passed and that option is no longer available.
One last thought!
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If you want to turn your layovers into vacations rather than just sitting in the airport, plan it so that you can spend the day in Paris or one of your other stop-over points. Also, you should know that you can chose the city where you do your layover. If you are going to Africa for a Safari, you might want to do your layover in London or Amsterdam, or Paris, or Zurich or Barcelona or Dubai.
As an example, on our trip to South Africa in 2015, we spent a full day in Zurich as our layover city enroute to Africa and an overnight in Paris on our way home. Plenty of time to get away from the airport and take the train to town. Don’t you just hate it when you have a 4-5 hour layover and you just have to sit at the airport and wait for your flight. We can help you build an itinerary that may give you the flexibility to stretch your legs and see some sights while you are waiting for a connecting flight. Everything is cheaper if booked all together.
Just remember, it is difficult and expensive fix your flight itinerary after the fact, so please call us first and we can give you some options and book your flights, hotel rooms, and excursions.
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Click HERE to book tours and excursions! |
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Click below to find out about booking Viking River Cruises!
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Click below for Information about Travel Insurance!
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Here is another great link to check for flight delays. Check Flight Delay Status by Clicking Here
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