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Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Travel Deals

by Jessica | November 9th, 2009

We’ve been preparing you for your trip to see the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010 with a series of articles this past week, and rather than risk you missing one of them - and thereby missing valuable information - we wanted to gather them all in one place so you could find them easily.

So consider this your “table of contents,” if you will, to our 2010 Olympics travel tips.

But along with links to the other articles already written in this series, you’ll also find a few things you should know about flying to Vancouver for the Olympics at the bottom of this article - it’s stuff you may already be aware of, but it’s worth taking a look just in case.

How to Find Cheap Airfare to the Olympics in Vancouver

Just about every destination has an off-season, but winter in Vancouver isn’t it - even when the Olympics aren’t going on, flights to Vancouver in January and February are definitely at peak season prices. Why? It’s the skiing, of course!

But even though you might not find the cheapest tickets to Vancouver during the Olympics, there are some things you can do to avoid paying the highest prices. We’ve detailed some of the best ways to get cheaper fares to Vancouver, and many of these tips will work year-round, Olympics or no.

>> Read more about finding cheap tickets to Vancouver for the Olympics

Alternate Airports to Vancouver for Flying to the 2010 Olympics

One of the tips detailed in the article linked above is to look at other airports besides Vancouver in order to broaden your search as much as possible, but unless you’re really familiar with the area you may not know which airports in particular to look at. That’s where we come in.

Frankly, until I started researching this article, I only knew of one of the alternate airports listed - and there are four to choose from in the article. No, I’m not going to tell you what they are. I mean, I already did. In the article.

>> Read more about alternatives to Vancouver Airport for the Olympics

Getting from the Seattle Airport to Vancouver

While there are a few airports reasonably close to Vancouver that you might choose to fly into instead of Vancouver International, only one of them is far enough away that you might be confused about how to get into Vancouver - and that’s Seattle’s SeaTac Airport.

There are several ways to get from SeaTac Airport into Vancouver, including a fabulously easy shuttle that connects the two points. You can read about all the options, including journey times and ticket prices, in this article.

>> Read more about how to get from SeaTac Airport to Vancouver

Things You Should Know About Traveling to the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver

In addition to the things we’ve covered in the other articles linked above, here are a couple of things it’s very important for you to know if you’re traveling to Vancouver for the Olympics.

• Anyone coming to Vancouver from outside Canada needs to have a passport to enter the country. This might sound like a no-brainer, but until recently U.S. citizens didn’t need to show a passport to go across the border into Canada. That’s no longer the case, so you’ll need to make sure you’ve got a passport - or that it’s still valid - before you hit the road.
• There’s a charge for flights departing from Canada, which sort of amounts to a departure tax. Passengers on flights out of Vancouver are charged a fee no matter where they’re going, although the amount charged does depend on your destination. The fees range from $5-15 (Canadian dollars), so it’s not a huge amount of money, but don’t be surprised if you see it added onto your ticket price.
• The official Olympics website has a helpful page of information for travelers coming into Canada, including who needs to have a visa in order to enter the country.

photo by Tim in Sydney

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Ski Holidays in France

by cristina | November 6th, 2009

The first snow of the season has already fallen in several mountain areas in Europe, which makes us think of the upcoming winter vacation. If you book in advance, the vacations in places which are usually expensive become quite affordable. So, it’s time to search for some deals, right? Ski holidays in France with PV-Holidays

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How to Get from the Seattle Airport to Vancouver, BC

by Jessica | November 5th, 2009

One of the things travel experts will routinely tell you when you’re looking for ways to find cheaper fares is to be flexible. That usually means things like researching more than one travel date around the date you think you want to fly, or being willing to set a 4am alarm if that’s the best way to get a cheap flight (it is).

But I’d like to suggest another thing you might want to consider when you’re learning to be a flexible traveler - flying into a different airport altogether. We recently wrote about some of the alternate airports for Vancouver International Airport, any of which might provide an opportunity to save you some money on a flight to Vancouver for the Winter Olympics, but we’d like to focus on one airport in particular for this article: SeaTac Airport.

Although there are airports closer to Vancouver than SeaTac is, it’s for that very reason - because they’re closer - that it’s much simpler to get from those airports into the city of Vancouver. From SeaTac, which is more than 130 miles south of Vancouver, it’s easy to see why it would be confusing and a bit daunting to try to figure out how to get from SeaTac to Vancouver.

But you don’t have to figure it out. That’s what we’re here for. Here are the best ways of getting from SeaTac Airport to Vancouver.

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How to search Lowfares.com for flights

by Roger Wade | November 4th, 2009

Lowfares.com is one of the newer airfare search sites, so it’s easy to be confused when you first see how they have things set up. It’s one of a new breed of “meta-search” sites that allow you to enter your information in once and then search multiple airfare sites with just one more click. Unlike some of the others, Lowfares.com allows you to search Kayak.com and SideStep.com, which are actually meta-search sites themselves, in addition to the more traditional online travel agencies.

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Alternative Airports to Use for Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics

by Jessica | November 4th, 2009

Most of the time when you’re planning a trip, you choose the airport closest to your house and the airport closest to your destination as the beginning and ending points of your travels. And most of the time, that makes sense. But when you’re on the hunt for all the possible ways you could save money on a flight that looks like it’s going to be more costly than you’d hoped, you learn to think outside the box.

In this case, “thinking outside the box” means looking for airports other than Vancouver International Airport as an entry point for your trip to the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Yes, the Olympics are in Vancouver. Yes, Vancouver’s is the closest airport to the city and most of the events. But that doesn’t mean it’s the only airport you should check for flights - especially if you’re waiting until the last minute and trying to avoid the high costs of a last-minute flight (assuming the flights aren’t all sold out by that point anyway). There are a few other airports in the area which are worth looking at, whether you’re planning ahead or buying at the 11th hour.

Here are the alternate airports you might want to consider for a trip to Vancouver for the Winter Olympics.

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