Metafares' Deal Hunting Blog

Traveling by plane can be pretty expensive if you don’t book your ticket in time (sometimes months in advance!) or if you don’t happen to land a deal. But good deals are difficult to find, especially if you have a specific place in mind. If right now your agonizing about buying a ticket on a flight to another US city, we’ll help you. Here’s a great deal for anyone who’s planning on traveling to a US city in the near future. American Airlines has an amazing sale or domestic flights, and you can find tickets as cheap as $29 each way! You have to book your ticket by February 8, which means that you still have 11 days left, and you can travel through May 24. Some taxes will apply to the price of the ticket, but if you book through Priceline.com, you won’t have to pay one cent for booking fees. You can find flights from almost any American city (which has an airport, of course) to any other city. Check out the flight dates to find the cheapest tickets (but don’t forget that blackout dates apply). So book your ticket for your great American trip while the deal still lasts! Find more details about it here.

Orbitz has no shortage of great ideas when it comes to deals that will make your day happier by allowing to save a truckload of money on travel expenses, and this deal is no different. If you are planning on taking a trip on a weekend, these fares are the way to go. Don’t travel during the week, and even if that’s how you planned your trip, you should consider postponing your flight to the weekend, because the weekend fares deals found on the Orbitz website are cheaper than anything you can find on weekdays. Check the Orbitz website periodically to find the best weekend fares, which change almost every week. If you don’t have a fixed destination and you just want to take a holiday, you can pick the cheapest destination. You can find weekend fares for as little as $110 a roundtrip, sometimes for international travel too! So don’t waste your money on potentially expensive weekday flights when you can take advantage of the low weekend fares deal offered by Orbitz. Check the website every Tuesday to see the newest deals on the weekend fare list. Don’t waste any time, click here!

Do you have any plans to visit Tampa anytime soon? If so, you’ll be delighted with this deal, and if not, you should really start considering visiting it! With this amazing deal from Orbitz, you can fly to Tampa for a promotional price of $165. Tampa is an incredibly diverse city, and there are many things to do to pass your time here. You can either visit cultural and historical attractions, pop into a few museums, and at night go out and enjoy Tampa’s explosive nightlife. You can have a wonderful vacation in Tampa and pay only about $165 for a roundtrip. There are many departure cities for the roundtrip to Tampa, so if you check the list on the Orbitz website, you will definitely find one that’s close to you, or maybe even a light from your hometown. Plus, with Orbitz you don’t have to pay anything for the online booking, and if another Orbitz customer books the same flight to Tampa for less, you will be automatically refunded the difference. So fly from San Diego, Buffalo, Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Portland and dozens of other cities to Tampa and back for prices starting at $165! You can find more information about online reservation and prices here.

If you’ve been thinking of making the long trip to Europe, here’s your chance to visit the old world for an exceptional price. Air Canada, Continental Airlines, Lufthansa and United Airlines have some great deals on offer for flights to Europe and beyond. You can buy a roundtrip ticket from New York to Manchester for as little as $504 plus taxes. You can travel to most destinations on offer from January 10 until April 12, and take advantage of prices live you’re never seen before. Explore the wonders of Europe’s old cities, historical villages and beautiful sceneries this winter, and enjoy a well deserved holiday. Vienna, Geneva, London, Zurich or Stockholm are only a few of the destinations that you can choose from. Fly from New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Miami and dozens of other major cities for fares between $504 and $617! There are no blackout dates, but your trip must cover at least one Saturday, and the maximum length of stay is one month. Don’t miss out on this wonderful opportunity to explore dozens of European cities, so book now while the deal is still valid! You can make an online reservation on the Orbitz website, by following this link.

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If you want to experience the joys of Christmas in the romantic setting of the old world, have you thought about visiting Krakow? This beautiful Polish city knows how to celebrate Christmas like in no other part of the continent. Magnificent Christmas trees, lights all over the city and Christmas markets filled with all sorts of hand-crated objects and delicacies. The Christmas atmosphere will not disappear from the city until well after the New Year’s Eve, so you still have time to visit! Or how about celebrating the New Year in Krakow? In addition to many exciting parties, there are plenty of street celebrations that will give you a taste of the local life. You can have all of this for an amazing price if you book your trip now. You can have a roundtrip flight from New York to Krakrow for prices starting at $543. If you book your ticket by December 31, you can benefit from this great deal, and you will be able to travel until March 25, so there’s no need to hurry! If you’ve already got plans for the holidays, that’s no problem, because you can make this into a Spring holiday too! Travel whenever you want until the middle of Spring! Here you can find more information about this amazing deal and how you can book your ticket.

Did you suddenly decide to go somewhere for the New Years Eve, and you don’t know where to find a cheap flight? You are in luck, because Virgin American offers some amazing deals for domestic flights throughout the country. You can travel from December 27 until May 11 if you book your ticket now. There are countless destinations and departure cities that you can chose from, so you can pick one that’s close to where you live and you’ll be spared the bother of a bus trip or a car drive till the airport. There are a few conditions that you have to keep in mind, but nothing impossible: you have to book a ticket at least 14 days before your departure date, and you can travel only until May 11, 2011. And here’s a tip : don’t book your flight on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Saturday, because the lowest fares will not be valid on those days of the week. On any other day, though, you can get tickets for as cheap as $98, plus some additional taxes. And don’t forget that these are fares for roundtrips, so this incredible price is not for one, but two flights! Don’t miss this opportunity to book a cheap flight either for the winter holidays, or for a holiday in the Spring months! You can find more details about booking and fees here.

If you are planning to travel to South America this winter, you can take advantage of an amazing deal. For a limited time, LAN airline has reduced all fares to South America. Since there are so many departure cities and destinations, you can definitely find something that fits perfectly into your plans! And not only is this deal convenient, but cheap too! The roundtrip  tickets will cost you as little as $431. The cheapest ticket is the roundtrip from Chicago to Quito, but there are dozens of other departure/destination combinations too. The only condition is to book the trip by December 15, and to travel January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011. So if you haven’t managed to book a holiday trip for Christmas, you can travel after New Years and make up for it in sunny South America. Whichever part of the continent you are going to visit, you will surely be delighted by everything you find: culture, history, nature. Discover the lush Amazonian forest, the bustling beaches of Rio, or wonderful cities like Lima, Montevideo, Cuzco, La Paz and many others. South America is just full of surprises, and your holiday will surely not be boring here! You can find more information about booking, fares and blackout dates here.

The winter holidays are fast approaching, and if you still haven’t booked a flight for our holiday, now is the time to do it! If you’re scared of high fares just before the holiday, don’t worry, here are some deals that will save you from being broke for the rest of the winter. If you book your ticket now, you can save 20% or more on several domestic and international flights. If you are planning on visiting family and friends during the holiday season, you can use the money you save on plane tickets to buy presents for them, or simply to buy yourself something nice as a reward. The departure and destination list contains most major airports in the country, as well as some smaller ones, so you can be sure to find an airport close to where you live. Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver and dozens of other destinations await you. If you prefer to spend you holidays abroad, take a look at the non-US destinations on the list: Cabo San Lucas in Mexico, Montego Bay in Jamaica or San Juan in Puerto Rico. So don’t waste this opportunity to save over 20% off your holiday flight! You can find more details here.

Virgin America strikes again with an amazing deal that will make you pack your bags at once! For a limited time only, you can travel in the US and to Mexico for fares starting at $44 each way for the US, and $159 for Mexico. Since these deals are valid for travel through March 31, it means that you can use this opportunity to plan a Christmas vacation out of town, or maybe a Spring vacation for 2011. There are so many holidays that you can plan with these fares that you don’t even need to stop at one! But with so many other people planning their winter holidays, hurry up and book a ticket as long as the deal still lasts. There are many departure cities, so you will surely find one that is close to where you live. You can book flights from Boston, Fort Lauderdale, New York, San Francisco and Seattle (plus a long list of other cities), and fly to Las Vegas, San Diego or Los Angeles. Don’t miss this chance to travel cheap to someplace you haven’t visited before, or to revisit some of your favorite destinations. Book a flight on Virgin America! You can find more details here.

How about a flight across the United States from the West Coast to the East Coast?  If you live in or near Los Angeles and you feel like all that heat and sun is getting you down, cool off a bit in New York. Christmas is approaching fast, and New York has never been a city to spare money on Christmas decorations. So if you want to see the Big Apple in all its splendor of Christmas lights and sparkles, this is the right time to visit. And since many people have already started thinking about buying Christmas presents, maybe it’s time you started planning too. Shopping in New York is like a dream come true for any shopping addict. There are so many shops and brands to choose from that you can spend weeks and weeks going from shop to shop and still not get bored. And if you are more inclined towards cultural attractions than shopping experiences, you definitely won’t be disappointed in New York. Theaters, independent cinemas, exhibitions and museums are in no short supply in the Big Apple. And if you’ve had your fill of high-end shops and exciting museums, you can always take a walk in Central Park, feed the ducks and enjoy the few weeks of autumn weather before the chill sets in. And all this for only $239 from LA to NY and back. More details here.