Visiting Europe in the Fall - help please

We are planning to visit Prague, Vienna, and Budapest this Fall.
We are flexible on dates and we would like to save on flight and
other costs.

When does the Low Season start? Is there much difference in cost
between Low Season and Shoulder Season?

We would be traveling from Vancouver (Canada) to Vienna (Austria),
or another close airport (Bratislava, Milano, etc..).

What's our best approach to the best plan? Thank you in advance.
- gA

If you use this low cost airlines search engine - SkyLow.com - you can
find cheap tickets from Vancouver to Paris and from there to Vienna,
Austria.

gA כתב:
> We are planning to visit Prague, Vienna, and Budapest this Fall.
> We are flexible on dates and we would like to save on flight and
> other costs.
>
> When does the Low Season start? Is there much difference in cost
> between Low Season and Shoulder Season?
>
> We would be traveling from Vancouver (Canada) to Vienna (Austria),
> or another close airport (Bratislava, Milano, etc..).
>
> What's our best approach to the best plan? Thank you in advance.

> - gA

gA wrote:
> We are planning to visit Prague, Vienna, and Budapest this Fall.
> We are flexible on dates and we would like to save on flight and
> other costs.
>
> When does the Low Season start? Is there much difference in cost
> between Low Season and Shoulder Season?

You would probably get the best results flying October 1 or later, and
flying there and back on a Tuesday or Wednesday.

> We would be traveling from Vancouver (Canada) to Vienna (Austria),
> or another close airport (Bratislava, Milano, etc..).

Instead of flying into Vienna directly, maybe you should look into an
open-jaw ticket so that you don't have to backtrack. Something like
Vancouver-(hub city of the airline you're flying)-Prague on the way
there, travel by train from Prague to Vienna, and from Vienna to
Budapest, and fly Budapest-(hub city of the airline you're
flying)-Vancouver on the way back. Online travel sites generally do a
lousy job with open-jaw tickets, so you might want to contact an
offline discount travel agent for that.

boaz-b@actcom.co.il wrote:

> If you use this low cost airlines search engine - SkyLow.com

Don't bother. What a useless piece of . Doesn't work with Firefox
(unless you have the IE plug-in), and when I searched from Seattle, it
didn't list even *one* European destination. Drop-down destination
lists suck.
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dgs

Let is be knownst that on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:19:24 -0800, dgs
<dgs1300@m> writted:

>boaz-b@actcom.co.il wrote:
>
>> If you use this low cost airlines search engine - SkyLow.com
>
>Don't bother. What a useless piece of . Doesn't work with Firefox
>(unless you have the IE plug-in), and when I searched from Seattle, it
>didn't list even *one* European destination. Drop-down destination
>lists suck.

It's at about this point someone mentions the excellent:

http://www.skyscanner.net/
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Deeply Filled Mortician wrote:

> Let is be knownst that on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:19:24 -0800, dgs
> <dgs1300@m> writted:
>
>
>>boaz-b@actcom.co.il wrote:
>>
>>
>>>If you use this low cost airlines search engine - SkyLow.com
>>
>>Don't bother. What a useless piece of . Doesn't work with Firefox
>>(unless you have the IE plug-in), and when I searched from Seattle, it
>>didn't list even *one* European destination. Drop-down destination
>>lists suck.
>
>
> It's at about this point someone mentions the excellent:
>
> http://www.skyscanner.net/

Nicer setup, great for cheap fares within Europe, even a bit better
for some North America-Europe connections, and waddaya know, it's
cross-browser compatible. Yep, better.

It would be swell if it returned the lowest-cost regular-airlines
fares too, but you can't have everything. That's why I also
search kayak.com and mobissimo.com, as well as the airlines' own
web sites.
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dgs