June 1st, 2009, 20:18
A friend of mine happened to show me a website on my first trip over to Thailand. He told me that people were buying first class tickets with hotel stays included for $1 USD. I thought he was proper full of it, until I sat down with him and started looking at the website.
As it turns out, this website is basically a tour company overstock sale venue, via internet auction. If these companies overbuy trips, plane tickets, or even just hotel stays, they use this site as a method of getting rid of these purchases while still making back a portion of the money spent, instead of chalking it up as a total loss.
All the sales are done via internet auction, very similar to Ebay. Now you can get lucky and get trips very cheap like my friend had shown me, but they get you back a bit with the fine print fees. Some places charge $250 for only buying 1 ticket, or $300 for going during a certain time of the year. After all is said and done though, if you can buy a RT first-class flight, along with 7 days stay at a 5 star hotel, and a variety of tours included in the price should you want them, for around $1000 USD, thats still a steal.
Will let you all check it out for yourself, and maybe a few of you will get lucky and get some of these super cheap rates. These are for trips all over the world as well, not just Thailand, so very handy indeed.
www.Skyauction.com (http://www.Skyauction.com)
Best of luck.
As it turns out, this website is basically a tour company overstock sale venue, via internet auction. If these companies overbuy trips, plane tickets, or even just hotel stays, they use this site as a method of getting rid of these purchases while still making back a portion of the money spent, instead of chalking it up as a total loss.
All the sales are done via internet auction, very similar to Ebay. Now you can get lucky and get trips very cheap like my friend had shown me, but they get you back a bit with the fine print fees. Some places charge $250 for only buying 1 ticket, or $300 for going during a certain time of the year. After all is said and done though, if you can buy a RT first-class flight, along with 7 days stay at a 5 star hotel, and a variety of tours included in the price should you want them, for around $1000 USD, thats still a steal.
Will let you all check it out for yourself, and maybe a few of you will get lucky and get some of these super cheap rates. These are for trips all over the world as well, not just Thailand, so very handy indeed.
www.Skyauction.com (http://www.Skyauction.com)
Best of luck.