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Save/ShareHere's the rarest of travel deals, the scenario in which buying a travel package with air and extras bundled together is cheaper than booking the flight by itself. This offer, valid for travel in late autumn, includes a flight to Dublin and a week-long car rental starting at $249 per person.
Both Go-Today.com and Virgin Vacations have the same package: For travel between November 1 and December 13, and from January 1 to March 25 of next year, the cost of a flight from New York's JFK to Dublin and a seven-day car rental starts at $249 per person based on two people traveling together. We quickly found availability at that rate for midweek November departures, and the grand total for two people, with taxes included, came to $664.30. Meanwhile, the best airfare we could find on that exact same flight—nonstop service on Delta—was $347 per person, or $694 for two people. Yep, you'd pay roughly $30 less by booking the package with wheels for a week.
Info about add-on flights from other cities is available at Go-Today.com or Virgin-Vacations.com. The same fly-drive package is available this summer and fall, but you'll pay more for the chance at better weather on the Emerald Isle—from $829 per person in July and August, and from a very reasonable $339 in September. The deadline for booking is May 29.
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This is almost too good to be true. One of my friends will enjoy this trip. She still has family there.
Posted By Cheerful on May 14, 2009, 11:03 AM
What is the age limit for driving in Ireland? Does anyone know for sure?
Posted By Arlene McGarvin on May 14, 2009, 5:16 PM
Ireland is miserable in the offseason, and there's a reason the cost of car rentals is double that of the rest of the UK--they drive like maniacs (or like people who spend too much time in the pubs). Sorry if this offends but it's the unPC truth.
An Irish ex pat
Posted By Edwardian on May 14, 2009, 6:11 PM
How much is the single supplement? That is, for me, always the killer in the deal.
Stan Mexico City
Posted By Stan on May 19, 2009, 5:49 PM
I would be interested in air from BOS and the cost of single supplement.
Posted By Elizabeth on June 18, 2009, 3:41 PM