A plan thwarted

As I said, I’ve been noticing higher prices all over, but with some real deals also.  I got the really egregious pricing looking at Spring break trips and that started an investigation that ultimately led to nothing thanks to the airlines pulling back flight availability. 

 I was going to note that Mexico was pricing high itself and on key days.  Airfare was really high.  Key spring dates of 18-25 of March was nearly $900 a person in Economy to Cancun on Southwest.  United was about $1200 a person, the following weekend was worse and Cancun had the best prices of any nonstop from denver.  

I was going to offer some alternatives, most notably the Canary Islands was less expensive to fly to.  And while All-inclusive resorts are available there (most notably on Tenerife)  Spanish Canary Islands are very safe, so a very nice vacation to somewhere beautiful and warm was easily possible.   For beaches, I had Thailand all laid out with $800 airfare (!!!) and a longer trip could be done at better beaches for much less.

Before that happened, I got as far as pricing this strictly “meh” all-inclusive package in Cancun with this slightly better one in Tenerife and an option with just an apartment hotel and a rental car for a real bargain because I don’t think a full-fledged resort is really necessary in the Canary islands. 

I was pricing out Thailand (which is much harder) and Then the airlines put a stop to both of those, the excellent schedule (Tenerife) and prices (Thailand) and I also realized that almost none of my clients book economy anyway and premium airfares are a totally different thing.  As a parent myself, I feel the whoa of somebody trying to take a family vacation when ALL the families are trying to take a vacation.   Thinking outside of the box can be helpful.

However, I did think of a much better way to look for bargains based on Exchange rates.