What's the best and cheapest way to travel at short notice? (Leaving from the United Kingdom)?

1. Monitor airline Web sales When airlines need to fill up a plane fast, they post Web-only fares at deep discounts. In some cases, they also e-mail deals to those who've signed up for such alerts or to members of their frequent-flyer programs.

However, some deals have fine print that may limit their value to you. Some of these airfares are often non-refundable and require a Saturday night stay. Web fares are typically posted mid-week for travel that weekend.

Read our airline guides to learn more about each airline. Then check the airline Web sites for last-minute Web fares - and have your bags packed. 2.

Buy a vacation package If you can't find a last-minute flight, consider a bargain-priced vacation deals. Vacation packagers buy blocks of flights to bundle with hotel nights. As departure dates approach, unsold packages are offloaded at discounted prices.

You may be able to purchase an entire package at less than the cost of an available flight. 3. Consider a travel consolidator Consolidators are the wholesalers of the industry.

They buy large blocks of tickets from the airlines at a volume price. This practice helps the airlines by ensuring that a certain number of seats are sold in advance, which boosts overall capacity on various flights. Consumers benefit because consolidators resell these seats for less than the airline's advertised prices.4.

Don't overlook student and youth fares There are plenty of organizations that cater to student travellers. Search for student-only airfares or try last-minute stand-by tickets for reduced fares. There are also youth fares -- discounted tickets for ages 18-22 and you don't have to be a student to use them.

Search for youth airfare programs and start saving now.

I've never tried it personally, but you can just go to airports and ask what flights they have with empty/cancelled seats. Several friends of mine tried this and managed to get extremely cheap seats out to Spain. The disadvantage of this is obviously booking flights back, and also you must sort out accommodation on the fly when you arrive!

Thomas Cook holidays do offer a list of their last minute deals - although these are up to a month away rather than extreme last minute! Details of their 'special offers' can be found at thomascook.com/holidays/last-minute-holi....

There are websites that offer last second deals for vacations. Like you asked, they list suggested destinations with the prices. The ones on lastminute.Com leave as early as tomorrow.

The ones from expedia are 2-3 weeks from now but still extremely cheap. Examples of destinations on the sites are Venice, Portugal, Barbados, New York, Egypt, Greece... lastminute.com/site/travel/holidays/last... expedia.co.uk/daily/holidays/offers/last... You can also always call a travel agent and see what they can find for you. They can find last minute openings on tours and such that you can take advantage of.

And you can hang out at the airport looking or canceled seats but the only problem with this is the lodging. While you may get a great deal on a flight you may get shafted with the lodging. I also found a feature on expedia.co.

Uk that lists many destinations with the lowest available fare. http://booking. Expedia.co.

Uk/? Lid=1006&MCICID=3PP_last-minute_main_module But think the lists above are more attune to what you seek. Happy travels!

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Ryan Air or Easy Jet yet. By far the cheapest ways to travel in Europe. I don't know the story on last-minute flights, but you can find some very cheap stuff that takes you anywhere in Europe, with London being their main hub (though you usually have to travel far out of the city at inconvenient hours).

Worth it for the price though.

There's a site dedicated to last minute travel bargains. lastminute.com/ They have a good selection of flights, hotels etc. For example a quick look on their site shows you could book a 3 night trip to Paris with flights and hotel for £132 per person, travelling out Thu 30th April.(They have plenty of other options even to Paris, but that just seemed like the kind of thing you want, pretty soon and pretty cheap.) They don't seem to have any feature where they just tell you what they've got at the lowest fare without asking you where though. But you could try their phone number and see if a person can help you with that: 0871 222 5969 If you were looking for something longer than a City Break, they have a selection of cheap holidays on this page: lastminute.com/site/travel/holidays/?

Skin=engb.lastminute.Com An example of what they've got is a week in Cyprus for £234 per person.

Lots of times your best bet is expedia, priceline, cheeptickets. Com,travelocity.com or orbitz. Com they often fill up seats for airlines that are not booked etc....

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