toon williams

Hi there

Looking into booking flights for 2 adults and 2 kids to go to Adelaide for a month in September. (Well ideally middle of August to middle of September, as eldest at school!! But want to keep cost down as if all goes well on Rekkie, will be making the trip AGAIN to move Permanently before Christmas!!!!!)

Flying from Heathrow, or any other London airport into Adelaide!!

Always see people will great prices on here and Just wondered where you find best places to look are!!

Seems best I can get is about £2800 from Singapore Airlines!!

Huge thank you for all your help!!

Bix da Boss

Hi
Just thought I would say - when we were ready to book our flights to emigrate, we searched the net for hours and hours for the cheapest prices, and I mean hours but, at the end of the day, we went into one of our local Travel Agents and they got us really cheap flights! Obviously they have a general knowledge of the best and worst times of the year to fly and help you work around that if poss.

Honestly, we found ours extremely helpful and would not hesitate to use travel agents again. It would have saved me all those blasted hours of searching the net - shame we did not realise before - new to flying you see - it was my first time

Give them a go - tell them what you have been quoted and they will do their best to beat it!

Enjoy your visit!

Gill

Rachel1978

Try Trailfinders who have offices in London, really helpful over the phone and usually can get a good deal with them, I have used them a few times. Also www.ebookers.co.uk.

pukka pom

Hiya,

We're off for our validation in 3 weeks time, booked in September last year through www.Opodo.com, paid £2,800 for five of us including an internal flight from Sydney to Brisbane, although this is flying with Quantas and Singapore was our preferred airline, but with 5 of us, we certainly couldn't be too fussy! - give them a look.

regards, Sally

Grayling

It is usually far cheaper to fly to Sydney or Melbourne and then get a virgin blue connection to Adelaide.

There are very few direct international flights to Adelaide hence less availability therefore higher price.

Try here for an online quote:

http://www.airline-network.co.uk/

Bear in mind that prices are always higher during the UK school holidays.

G

chris and farideh

Hi Gill,

did you go to the well known high street travel agents, or was it one those little independent one's.
also did you book it weeks in advance, as we have to be in Adelaide for our validation visa by mid august.
only waiting to sell the house before we are sure to book the ticket.

farideh

Jaycee1

Hi, I used www.travelsupermarket.co.uk who give loads of results. Also look at www.leestravel.com for main carriers, usually better nearer to time of travel. Like someone else said try www.opodo.co.uk I am going in 5 weeks booked with them and using Emirates.
Also phone the actual airline, they have offers on Cathay are good for this
J x

toon williams

Thank you all for replies, will certainly "hit" the local travel agents, someone else had said this to me the other day, when booking their summer holiday to Spain, searched for hours on the web and then booked locally saving about £400 which isnt toooo bad!!

Will also check out the other sites see what I can come up with!!

Once again thanks for your help!

Mrs JFW

www.travelmood.com have got some good offers on at the moment if you are looking to book very soon. Another BE member has travelled with them for the last 12 years and rate them very highly!

Good luck!

jackie x

possoms

we've booked with travelmood

hoops

Hi

Got our quote through Flight Centre in Bristol - email address is www.flightcentre.co.uk

Best of luck

Hoops (mrs)

Gravyman

Hiya

We are using Trailfinders.

We are going via the states,
Gatwick to Orlando, Miami to LA, LA to Sydney and then Sydney to Adelaide.

Total cost just over £700.

Graham

Xgeminix

Manchester - Perth via Dubai, 3 Adults, 2 children, £1896 flying with Emirates on Tuesday. That was with www.expedia.co.uk.

Jude xx

Bix da Boss

G'day Farideh!

We booked with 'Going Places' - they were brilliant - really helpful and put our minds at rest. Had so much to sort out at that time it was lovely to sit back and watch someone else do the searching for a change - and it worked!

We took in the cheapest quote I found on-line, then they searched and beat it! We flew out on 29th October 2004 which I think is one of the more reasonable times to fly anyway. Mid August ie UK school summer holiday, could cost you more, as prime time.

As for time factor - well, our situation was unusual, we could not tell anybody we were going until a month before actually leaving - nightmare!! So, we booked our flights on the 29/9/04!!! If you are willing to go with any airline then this is fine, if you want a particular airline then you might not be able to get seats so close to leaving date. They will check different dates and availability for you anyway, of course you knew that already

All I can say is, to take a bit of the strain off everything else you have to do, check out a few agents first.

Have fun on your validation visit to Adelaide!

Take care
Gill

Bix da Boss

Thats seems like a blinkin' good deal for 3 adults and 2 children!