Re: CGExpo

Turned out, in my case, that I went to http://www.trip.com and did a search for flights. This
is a little tricky, but I found a flight IN for Friday ($170). Trying to come back Sunday
didn't work, but Monday did (another $170). Credit cards were maxed, so I took
the printout to AAA and showed her what flights I wanted. She booked them and I
paid cash.

Flight in is VERY early Friday, so if they overbook and want volunteers to be bumped
I'm taking it.

Jon Raiford wrote:

> Just remember, a Saturday night stay will lower your price. You may also look into back to back tickets originating from vegas and flying to your city. You then only use half of each ticket, but it is sometimes cheaper (it is also not officially allow
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> ed, so don't be too blatently obvious about it). Another possibility is trying to get a package deal from a casino. I've never done this, but they LOVE getting people to stay at their hotel's down there. Call some of the casino's and ask if they have
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> any package deals. Two other ideas pop to mind.. Find either a REALLY full flight or a REALLY empty flight down there. There is a good chance that they might have over booked a flight and you can get on the bump list. Depending on the situation, you
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> may get a free ticket out of it for waiting for a later flight. If a flight is pretty empty, there is a website out there for making bids on last minute tickets that don't appear to be selling. Its possible that you can name your!
> own price (if they accept it). Good luck! :)
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> Jon
>
> At 10:09 AM 8/9/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >> A few of us are going to get together Saturday night
> >> (8-14) at 6:30 pm at Quark's Bar at Star Trek: The
> >> Experience in the Las Vegas Hilton. Anyone else coming?
> >
> >IF I make it to the Expo, I'll probably stop at Quarks too. Problem is
> >I didn't even know about it until 2 weeks ago when Mr Skelly told me he'd
> >be there. I should have made plans then, but Noooooo not me. I looked at
> >plane tickets last week and didn't like the prices, then I decided I'd
> >pay anyway (on Saturday) and went back to the web only to find the
> >prices had gone up even more! GAK! I plan to see a travel agent to see
> >if they can get any cheaper... So the lesson is: Plan your trips as far
> >in advance as possible. If you end up canceling 50% of your trips and
> >lose ALL your money it's cheaper than buying tickets last minute for the
> >50% you do take.
> >
> >Hope to see you there,
> >--
> > ___ __ _ _ _
> >| \ / \ | | | || | phkahler@oakland.edu Engineer/Programmer
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> >|_| |_||_| \___/ |____) for things another man can just ignore. " -S.H.
> >
Received on Mon Aug 9 14:12:55 1999