lorraineandmatt

Hi all as you may already know we are currently looking into flights to validate our visas this August.

Question: Are there anygood deals about that anyone can think of? We have found that Emirates are the cheapest at just over £2000 for 2 adults for 2 1/2 weeks. Is this a good price?

Last time we went in 2009, same time of year, it was only £1600 for 2 adults.

Thanks

Matt & Lane

Bermudashorts

Its not hard to find the best deals, expedia, trailfinders or flightcentre can do the work for you.

lorraineandmatt

Thanks, we have been on all of those web sites but its much cheaper to go direct to Emirates.

Thanks again

holly13

We found holiday genie cheapest flying with emirates in sept. £ 1900 from birmingham. Did same as you tho thru the various comparison sites. Kept hoping they would get cheaper!

Bermudashorts

Well there you go then...

beans

We paid 3,200 euro for one way with trailfinders we are a family of 5 heading out in jan 2012.

spuddyo

If you're going Emirates the promotion code UKARSN1 still works from UK and gets you 10% off I believe, just type it into the promo code box in the fare search engine on their website.

Jen1977ni

Or try the skyscanner app?

mvagusta

I've used this code twice and the best I got was about £12 off although it's still worth using it.

mvagusta

Depending on where your located in the Uk, Air Asia may be worth a look.

JoeBloggs80

kayak.co.uk is a good flight aggregator too.

rozellem

A bit of useless info....

I have just received a (very competitive) quote from my local Flight Centre here in Sydney for a complicated booking (long story) otherwise I would have done it online myself. Its for 3 adults and 2 kids going to South Africa for Christmas and comes to just a fraction under $10 000 for us all. Interestingly, I can either pay the $9915.52 with my credit card OR if I pay in cash, the price drops to $9723.00! Who in their right mind will walk into a Flight Centre with a bag containing $9723 in cash. I have only seen that done in the movies!

mvagusta

First impression is that's it's not a discount for cash but rather they're adding on the credit card charge that they get from the card company which is around 2-2.5% and adding this on to the cash price. Most travel agents due this.

lorraineandmatt

Thanks all.

I have just tried the UKARSN1 code and we had a reduction of £25.8.

Matt

NickyC

You should still get the cash price by paying via eftpos. No real need to carry cash