[Idyllchat] Affording Italy, Another Perspective

[Jay Cloidt]

The airfare listed is one of the ways you can save money. People traveling
with kids or grandkids are stuck traveling during summer vacation. On our
Untour this past September to Switzerland, our airfare to Zürich was under
$800 and that was only because we extended our stay until Saturday. If we
had flown out on Thursday, it would have been under $700.

I have become a big fan of traveling off-season. Here's why:
November '06 to Edinburgh - $525 roundtrip.
November '05 to Reykjavik - $450 roundtrip.
March '04 to Milan - $380 roundtrip.

If you can avoid flying in the summer, you can save a lot of money.

On 10/25/07, Bob Johnson <robtjohn at tx.rr.com> wrote:
>
>  We too always look for ways to save and always like to analyze all the
> numbers to see what is actually happening.  We kept our Idyll catalogs and
> invoices each year since our first trip to Switzerland in 1999.  If we
> look at the Swiss Heartland trip here is what we found for a two week stay.
>
>
>
> Inclusive
>
> 1999  $1,824     2008  $2,639     44.7% Increase
>
> Ground only
>
> 1999  $797       2008  $1,399     75.5% Increase
>
> Air (Diff)
>
> 1999  $1,027     2008  $1,240    20.7% Increase
>
> Swiss Franc
>
> 1999  $0.655     Present $0.856    30.7% Increase
>
>
>
> Currency exchange rates represent the summer average for 1999 and the
> present rate of exchange for comparison.  We love traveling with Idyll but
> these disproportionate increases did get our attention.  This was the only
> destination comparison we made
>
> .
>
> Bob
>
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