Is it worth it

[florida4sun]

Good point Dave, when we 'left' america we flew PE, about a week after I booked The Queen Mary was booking at half the price of what I paid for flights. That was from New York and the trip is 6 days.

[jayre]

Dave, how did you get a one way air ticket outbound? I thought we had to purchase round trip to have a return date to comply with Immigration requirements.

[Tonish]

Having just flown economy with Virgin for the first time in a few years, we have decided that we won't be doing it again. It will be PE at least or we will use another airline with a stop. It's worth the extra.

[florida4sun]

The return trip would be by cruise. Unless I am missing something.

Dave, how did you get a one way air ticket outbound? I thought we had to purchase round trip to have a return date to comply with Immigration requirements.

[Lizb]

You would probably have to produce your cruise itinerary showing your return date.

I would love to do one of the relocation cruises, shopping would be even sweeter, with no weight restrictions, wonderful.

[DaveL]

Dave, how did you get a one way air ticket outbound? I thought we had to purchase round trip to have a return date to comply with Immigration requirements.

Martin is correct we are flying out on a one way and returning on a cruise.

You do not need a return flight just the ability to convince the immigration people that you do not plan to stay.

We have done this before and not been asked for anything. We have also done the reverse by arriving in the U.S. by ship and departing some time later by plane.

Regards Dave

[FraserLynn]

I agree with the above Virgin PE from Orlando is not good on the 'old' planes but is better than economy.

This is not an answer to your question but I have posted in case it is of help to others who read this thread.

Depending on the time of year and the amount of time you have available there is another option. That is to spend the money on a return cruise for around the same amount as the return sector on the plane.

The cruise companies have 'repositioning' cruises in April and May when a lot of ships leave Florida for the European summer season.

We have just secured a balcony cabin leaving Ft Lauderdale for Dover via Lisbon for £950 per person. OK it takes 14 days to get home but there's no luggage restrictions and no jet lag. You do put on a few extra pounds in weight however.

Regards Dave

Sounds like a great idea, but how are you organising the flights? Whenever I have looked at 1 way flights they are usually a lot more money than the cost of a return flight (have no idea why!) Is there a way of doing a one way flight for half the price of a return to make this work?

[Katys Grandad]

Sounds like a great idea, but how are you organising the flights? Whenever I have looked at 1 way flights they are usually a lot more money than the cost of a return flight (have no idea why!) Is there a way of doing a one way flight for half the price of a return to make this work?

Hi Fraser

The reason why one-way flights appear to be so expensive is that most of us are used to heavily discounted return fares with minimum stay requirements (usually a Saturday night). By definition, a one-way can't have a minimum stay so the fares are always in the highest categories.

I find that using Frequent Flyer miles for one-ways is the best method because the mileage required is always half that for a return (I would imagine you have more that a few of those!). By coincidence, only yesterday I booked 2 Business class 1-way awards from Tokyo to Singapore next week. Only 30k miles instead of a fare of £5,600.

Incidentally, there are much higher tax and supplement add-ons on a UK-US flight that the other way around. Sometimes that can literally be 100 times more.

[Jill]

Hi Fraser

Incidentally, there are much higher tax and supplement add-ons on a UK-US flight that the other way around. Sometimes that can literally be 100 times more.

We found that out when booking our sons flights when they were at US universities. The UK to US flight was far higher than US to UK. What annoyed us more than anything with Virgin was they do NOT give students a discount flying UK to US, but with an International Student Discount card they were able to get a discount on the same Virgin flight from US to UK which gave us an additional saving on top.

[Robert5988]

Have priced up PE an it's an extra 2200 for all four of us has anyone on here flown PE and is it really worth the extra my wife assures me it will

Works out about £150 an hour for all four, and presumably two are children.

Frankly I am amazed that so many people think it is worth that amount of money.

However we have had this discussion several times - each to his own!

At what price do people think it is not worth the extra? i.e. the cut-off point