New Years Travel Deals and Cheap Tickets

New Years Travel Deals

nye4 Whereas Christmas is (for many) a time when family obligations require any trips to be in the direction of “home,” New Year’s Eve is a holiday that’s much more associated with friends and parties that you want to attend – whether they’re family-related or not. It’s not surprising, then, that traveling for New Year’s is a popular thing to do.

There are plenty of spots around the globe that make a very big deal out of New Year’s Eve, and since it’s a holiday that comes only once a year you’d be smart to plan ahead for your trip. Advance preparation will help you save money on your flight, for one thing, and it’ll save you from the disappointment of missing out on an experience if you’ve got your eye on a particularly popular destination for New Year’s.

The articles listed below will all help you plan for your New Year’s travels, no matter where you want to go.

Need more holiday travel tips? Look no further:

>> In 2012, New Year’s Eve is a Monday, and New Year’s Day is on Tuesday

New Year’s Travel Tips for the Airport

nye3 Holiday travel can be a royal pain, from busy airports to higher ticket prices to weather delays – it all adds up to increased frustration if you let it. Some of the things that make holiday travel annoying are beyond your control (sudden snowstorm, anyone?), but there are a few things you can do to make any extended time you need to spend at the airport less irritating and perhaps even reasonably enjoyable.

Whereas a trip to the airport around Thanksgiving or Christmas is reliably nightmare-ish due to capacity crowds, a flight just before New Year’s isn’t necessarily going to mean suffering through an overcrowded airport. Your return flight on the far side of the holiday, however, might be a different story. Because so many people make one big trip of their Christmas and New Year’s holidays, it’s the few days after New Years that are some of the most crowded of the holiday season.

In other words, even though the airports might not be as busy around New Years as they can be at other holidays, you should still do everything you can to make sure you’re prepared for a busy airport in order to minimize your own stress levels.

So here are our New Years travel tips for the airport.

>> For 2012, New Year’s Eve is on a Monday, and New Year’s Day is on a Tuesday

Best and Worst Days to Travel at New Year’s

nye1 In recent articles we’ve covered the best and worst days to travel at Thanksgiving as well as the best and worst days to travel at Christmas. So it’s only logical that we continue down the calendar and take a look at the best and worst days to travel at New Year’s, too, right? I mean, we don’t want New Years to feel left out or anything…

The trouble with isolating the worst and best days to fly for New Years is that so many people combine Christmas travel with New Years travel for one big trip. I’m going to attempt to focus just on the New Years holiday in this article, which means looking at travel dates after Christmas, so if you need information about pre-Christmas travel dates I suggest you click over to our article about the worst and best days to fly at Christmas to help complete the picture.

>> In 2012, New Year’s Eve falls on a Monday, and New Year’s Day is a Tuesday

How to Find Cheap New Year’s Airfare

nye2 While some people focus on the family-oriented holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas at this time of year, others prefer to focus on the fun-filled party-oriented holiday of New Year’s. If you’re lucky enough to have a party night to look forward to at New Years, and luckier still to have vacation time leftover after your other holiday trips, then your next step is to look for ways to save money on an airplane ticket at New Years. Because even if you’ve got the time, your wallet is likely to be a bit thinner after buying all those Christmas gifts.

Getting a cheap fare at other holidays this season – like Thanksgiving and Christmas – can be quite difficult. But although New Year’s travel doesn’t tend to be as costly as those others, this is still a trip you’ll want to do some research about beforehand so you don’t spend too much on your ticket.

Unfortunately, New Year’s travel is like other holiday travel in that just moving your intended flight dates around a day or two doesn’t always result in a huge drop in prices. There’s a big block of time around all these holidays during which the airlines just charge more for flights – because they can. But even within those blocks there are ways you can find cheap airfare at New Year’s, which we’ll look at in this article.

If you’re one of the people who’s combining Christmas travel with New Year’s travel, be sure to read our tips on finding Christmas travel deals as well, in order to get the most complete picture.

>> New Year’s Eve in 2012 is a Monday, and New Year’s Day in 2013 is a Tuesday

Las Vegas Can Be a Great Bargain for New Year’s

vegasstrip Las Vegas always seems to be a bargain destination – especially if you’re already in the United States – and at this time of year it’s not only cheap it’s also a welcome warm respite from the cold weather much of the country is dealing with. And even though we’re only out a few days before Christmas right now, that doesn’t mean it’s too late to book a trip to Vegas to celebrate New Year’s in style.

Many of the cheapest fares I’m seeing for Las Vegas right now may very well be for right before or right after New Year’s, since it’s a popular destination for New Year’s parties, but airfare to Vegas is usually fairly low even during peak times. Plus, even if you’re paying a little more on your flight than you’d like, you can usually make up for it with a steal of a deal on a room.

New Orleans for New Years

A year ago at this time the people in New Orleans were in no mood to party. Their lives had been forever upturned by the forces of Mother Nature. There is no denying that the city still has a long ways to go to recover and one of the chief ways we can all help is to go there and to spend our vacation money. The French Quarter is back in action and my friends who recently spent some time there report that the party scene is still a lot of fun.

New Years in New Orleans has always been a blast and this year should be no exception. Cheap Tickets has a promotion where you can save $75 off your vacation in New Orleans. Save some money so that you can spend it while you are there. You’ll have fun and you’ll do your part to help the Big Easy get back on her glorious feet.