{"id":9052,"date":"2011-08-09T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=9052"},"modified":"2011-08-09T01:00:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T08:00:50","slug":"cruises-flights-booking-last-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=9052","title":{"rendered":"Last-minute \u2014 Good Deals or Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9064\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2011\/08\/cruises-flights-booking-last-minute\/nassau-neighbours-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9064\" title=\"Nassau neighbours\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nassau-neighbours2-e1312830796993.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve always believed you could find some of the best travel deals at the last minute. Fill up the empty seats in a plane, berths in a train, staterooms in a ship, right? Now we&#8217;re not so sure.<\/p>\n<p>About 10 days ago, we were were checking out flights because, unexpectedly, we were making &#8220;last-minute&#8221; plans. Five days before flying, the best fare was $171, one way. As the day of departure got closer, the price went higher, ending our plans when it climbed to $381, one way.<\/p>\n<p>On the weekend, the same thing. On Sunday, the best fare available for a September flight <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9072\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2011\/08\/cruises-flights-booking-last-minute\/generic-plane-450-4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9072\" title=\"Generic plane-450\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Generic-plane-4503-e1312830904908.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a>was $289. Yesterday, it was $313.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s happened to last-minute bargains?<\/p>\n<p>Most of us have to fly before we cruise and in these regressive economic times every travel dollar saved is important, so these &#8220;stock-market-like&#8221; prices for flights are important.<\/p>\n<p>What about cruise prices?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re planning to track some last-minute cruise prices in the days ahead to see what the research demonstrates. In the meantime, what&#8217;s been your experience in booking cruises at the last minute; in particular how you think it has changed&#8230;or if it has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve always believed you could find some of the best travel deals at the last minute. Fill up the empty seats in a plane, berths in a train, staterooms in a ship, right? Now we&#8217;re not so sure. About 10 days ago, we were were checking out flights because, unexpectedly, we were making &#8220;last-minute&#8221; plans.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=9052\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last-minute \u2014 Good Deals or Not?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25,15],"tags":[61,688,689,72,35,312,690],"class_list":["post-9052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-stories","tag-airlines","tag-booking-cruises","tag-booking-flights","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-finding-bargains","tag-flight-costs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}