if going to europe in march/april 2009

never been to europe, but planning on booking a trip to London for sometime in either March or April '09. How far in advance should I book or start looking into this trip?

Re: if going to europe in march/april 2009

Avoid Spring Break time.

It's a "popular" time for traveling so I would think 5-6 months.

Re: if going to europe in march/april 2009

If you have the cash it probably wouldn't hurt to book your plane tickets now just in case the prices keep rising. DH and I are going to Hong Kong and Krabi, Thailand in April and we will be booking our flights this week.

Re: if going to europe in march/april 2009

March isn't considered high season for tourism as its still cold in the UK, May-Sept is a much higher season. I would start looking around about 3-4 months before hand, flights tend to fluctuate in price, and I think you get the best deal about 8 weeks before you want to fly (but thats just from my experiences)

Make sure that you try to get out of London for a few days if you can, London isn't a really good representation of how beautiful England really is...some day trips like to the Cotswolds or Brighton would be great!

just a good for instance about buying plane tickets...I was pricing flights from the UK to JFK the last week in August, for months it was VERY expensive, about £1400 for 3 of us to fly, I checked two weeks ago and the flights went down £400....thats $800. Don't book too far in advance, you could pay un-necessarily high prices.

Message edited 7/23/2008 2:49:41 PM.

Re: if going to europe in march/april 2009

We are going with a tour company to Paris and London during spring break (DH and I are the chaperones for the students) so the company books everything. Just so you know, it is a great time to go. The weather was great last year for us in London and Dublin. It didn't rain once, which I know was a freak thing, but the climate was great.