Fall refers to prices on Cheap Travel to Europe

Of course it will be cheaper to fly to Europe in the Fall! All the kids are back in school, not to mention the teachers, administrators and professors and college students! The airlines need some people in the seats. If you are waiting for some cheap travel opportunities to come to Europe, this is great news right? Just jump on your favorite site or call your travel agent (I know, they really do still exist despite the cuts) and see how low they can go for your next week or weekend away. The crowds are dying down in the popular places and things are getting a little bit more normal and traffic will be greatly reduced if you decide to travel during these months. The weather is never guaranteed, especially places like England, Scotland, Netherlands or Scandanavia, so even summer trips to various destinations often produce cold memories! In fact in many places, you are likely to get as good or better weather in your destination of choice during the months of September and October. November can be very cold in mountainous areas or northern climes, but this summer was too for many. If you are going to places like Turkey or Greece, I think these are brilliant places to visit in the fall and avoid the high summer temperatures and crowds at destinations like Athens, Santorini, Corfu, and Southern Turkey or even Istanbul.

It's not all sunshine and roses though, even in Southern Europe. Many of the discount carriers that make air-travel in Europe so cheap cut down or change their routes quite significantly during the winter. Germanwings, ryanair and easyjet, amoung others, will have a daily or four times weekly flight reduced to one day a week or even canceled completely until next summer! FLEXIBILITY will continue to be a key to getting cheap travel in Europe during the Fall season. You will have to look at a week at a time and try to see if they still have flights going and pick your days of the week accordingly. Can you get cheap flights to cities like Zagreb, Graz, Katowice, Ancona, Barcelona, and even Scandanavia? Absolutely. You just have to look. Many destinations will have a mid week and a weekend flight remaining on the schedule so you can do 3 or 4 days in a destination or a whole week if you prefer.

Now, however, is a good time to book the cheap stuff before it fills up. For the trans-atlantic flights, it's possible there will be some last minute deals as the planes don't fill up, but this may leave you spending a few days exploring a gateway city, rather than paying for flights to continue on which have filled up or become expensive at the last minute. Ryanair sometimes gets cheaper at the last minute, but Germanwings tends to charge more days before a flight. Look around and see what you find. That's part of the joy and challenge of cheap travel, though, right? It's a bit like a box of chocolates... but that's a sentence that belongs somewhere else. If you get an extraordinary good deal, please feel free to drop me a line and let me know how you did it!