Travel
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Will extending a layover drastically increase my flight cost?
I'm planning a trip "home" to Greece to see my family and check up on my house. This usually guarantees a stopover somewhere in Europe (usually London, Madrid or Paris), and I thought for once I'd like to extend the layover to a day or two instead of a few hours at the airport. Whenever I try to do this online it increases my ticket cost by $300-400 although the flight is still midweek etc etc. I'm going to talk to a travel agent next week to see if he has any better ideas/options, but I was wondering whether any of you regularly extend layovers and avoid the cost of your flight going up dramatically.
Re: Will extending a layover drastically increase my flight cost?
It would technically be considered two separate tickets, not one with a "layover" , so I would think that it would def increase the cost:(
If you are looking at the non-US airlines they usually allow the stopover for a certain amount of time for free or a small fee in the hub city. I've even been able to do it with US airlines, but I notice it more with non-US airlines.You could also check actually looking at two tickets (ie. one to London with BA and then a separate flight London-Athens) but then there will be different rules for baggage on the inter-Europe flight.
It could be that the base fare for not doing a stopover is significantly cheaper than the base fare of a ticket that allows you to do one. I'm not sure. Anyway, here's some links about stopovers:
http://www.airfrance.us/US/en/local/resainfovol/meilleuresoffres/marketing_Paris_stopover.htm
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/lcinfo/public/en_in
Most recently I did a stopover with Aer Lingus in Dublin and there was no fee.
This is not accurate at all! On international flights it's called a stop over and can usually be done for 1-4 nights. We did it on our Honeymoon. We were only planning on New Zealand because pricing out Australia and NZ was so expensive flight wise. I booked directly with United and the agent was the one whom suggested the stop over, for us it was $250 each to add the 4 nights so while not super cheap it was definitely worth it to us.
Now this was 3 years ago, but when we went to J'burg we extended our layover in Amsterdam for a day and Paris on the way home for 3 days and the cost the exact same if just did the 'hours' layover.
We flew KLM/Air France from JFK - Amsterdam - J'burg - Paris - Philly