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Showing posts with label flights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flights. Show all posts
Wednesday, 13 August 2014
Flights booked
Last night Mikko was doing once again checking with the flights and with trying even the most nonsense options like two way flights (so that we won't use the return flight) he found an option we had to consider for a moment. It was a two way straight flights from Finnair lasting the minimum flying time and arriving to the destination daytime. The price was 599 euro for each and to think that last time we flew to Japan it cost me approximately 750 euro (one stop in Heathrow) and for Mikko a little bit over 800 euro with straight flight, so these ones were really cheap. We went over the budget and we never considered flying straight, but when we have compared prices with one way flights and those costs about 550 euro without stopping in Moscow so we did the decision to spoil us now a little bit and we booked straight flights! The take off is now 26th of December and we arrive Japan 27th of December. Yey! I went to sleep feeling like we would be flying next morning! Now we only have to hope all goes fine with the visas. ;)
Thursday, 31 July 2014
Flight Hunting
Hi again!
It's almost end of the July, the blogs counter shows only 150 (approximately) days untill the take off. The fact behind the approximately is that we actually don't have flights yet. The counter has been settled to the date which would be best for us, 27th of December, but the reality is that we may have to be flexible in order to get the best flights. That has been harder than expected though. Our dates aren't that flexible what we would like them to be. The reasons are pretty simple: we want to spent Christmas holidays (23-25th) with our families because we have to be long time apart from them. We also want to fly before New Year's Eve in order to be able to start arrangements in Tokyo before the beginning of the school. So with those boundaries it actually leaves dates to be only from 26th to 28th of December... Not really flexible?
Other problem is the flying route. I personally would prefer not flying through Russia right now and even if considered the time we have to spend in Moscow's airport is insane in most of the combinations (reaching 30 hours in some cases.). But if you are willing to fly with only one stop during the way (Moscow) through Russia the prices begins from 400 euro (for one way ticket). If you aren't willing to fly with the Moscow stop the prices rises from 550 euro and there will always be more than one stopover. So we're kinda waiting something to happen and trying to hunt a best offer. We've also considered booking two-way flights, but those won't actually come much more cheaper and because we're going to spent so long time there the flying companies can't list us right away flight back (so we would have to purchase a right to change the return date and that costs something like 100-150 euro from different companies but not everyone is offering that deal) So keep the thumbs up for our search!
ps. Have to say I'm pretty proud that I've already achieved 150 kanji limit even though it was originally Augusts goal <3 Hurray!
It's almost end of the July, the blogs counter shows only 150 (approximately) days untill the take off. The fact behind the approximately is that we actually don't have flights yet. The counter has been settled to the date which would be best for us, 27th of December, but the reality is that we may have to be flexible in order to get the best flights. That has been harder than expected though. Our dates aren't that flexible what we would like them to be. The reasons are pretty simple: we want to spent Christmas holidays (23-25th) with our families because we have to be long time apart from them. We also want to fly before New Year's Eve in order to be able to start arrangements in Tokyo before the beginning of the school. So with those boundaries it actually leaves dates to be only from 26th to 28th of December... Not really flexible?
Other problem is the flying route. I personally would prefer not flying through Russia right now and even if considered the time we have to spend in Moscow's airport is insane in most of the combinations (reaching 30 hours in some cases.). But if you are willing to fly with only one stop during the way (Moscow) through Russia the prices begins from 400 euro (for one way ticket). If you aren't willing to fly with the Moscow stop the prices rises from 550 euro and there will always be more than one stopover. So we're kinda waiting something to happen and trying to hunt a best offer. We've also considered booking two-way flights, but those won't actually come much more cheaper and because we're going to spent so long time there the flying companies can't list us right away flight back (so we would have to purchase a right to change the return date and that costs something like 100-150 euro from different companies but not everyone is offering that deal) So keep the thumbs up for our search!
ps. Have to say I'm pretty proud that I've already achieved 150 kanji limit even though it was originally Augusts goal <3 Hurray!
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