Cyber Monday Travel Deals

Cyber Monday is here! If you weren’t already worn down by Black Friday starting on Tuesday, well, in some cases, Cyber Monday sales have started early. In other cases, they have not. Here’s a round-up:

• Air New Zealand (UK site) – 100 Seats to Los Angeles from London for 199 GBP, round trip. Start booking your tickets at 10am Monday (assuming this is GMT, since it was aimed toward the UK) – H/T God Save the Points
• MSC Cruises offers up to 30% savings on Caribbean cruises, plus up to $400 shipboard credit per stateroom.
• Royal Caribbean is offering 50% off cruise fare of a second guest booked in the same stateroom, including 50% reduced deposit, and up to $400 shipboard credit per stateroom.
• Fiji Airways has a 48 hour Cyber Monday Sale, offering up to 40% off flights from the US to Nadi, Australia, and New Zealand. Travel dates 23 Jan 16 to 22 Mar 16.
• 10% off at United Shop – CODE: SNOWMAN there are some great UA model planes for that #Avgeek in your life!
• Starwood has a number of sales, book some as late as December 6th!
• Expedia has a bunch of sales, including some better pricing on the Expedia App.

Sales that have been going on since Black Friday:

• Marriott Extreme Cyber Sale – Up to 25% off, 2,000 hotels, but, beware, this started on Friday 27 November, so remaining options may be slim pickings.
• Hyatt offers 20% off 2 night stays or 25% off 3 night stays, search offer code WSALET. Hotel options appear to be pretty extensive, even including Grand Hyatt Santiago and Grand Hyatt Sao Paulo, and the Palacio Duhua-Park Hyatt Buenos Aires!
• British Airways has up to 25% off flights. There’s also a number of Business Class fare sales, too.
• I missed this earlier, but American Airlines Vacations has a sale – enter promo code: BFCM2015.

Cyber Monday Flash Sales:

• Fox News reports that it is likely that we will see flash sales from the various airlines starting around 9am.
• Alaska Airlines started at 8pm Eastern (5pm PST), you can find those deals here (although it seems to default to Baltimore for me)
• The best way to keep up with the latest is to follow the airlines via Twitter. For your ease, here are the various airline twitter handles:
  • American Airlines – @AmericanAir
  • Alaska Airlines – @AlaskaAir
  • United Airlines – @United
  • Delta Airlines – @Delta
  • Southwest Airlines – @SouthwestAir
  • JetBlue Airways – @JetBlue
  • Hawaiian Airlines – @HawaiianAir
  • Virgin America – @VirginAmerica
  • Lufthansa – @LufthansaUSA
  • British Airways – @British_Airways
  • Virgin Atlantic – @VirginAtlantic

If Products are more your speed, here are some consolidator sites:

• Kinja Deals highlights some of the best Cyber Monday Deals.

I’ll provide an update Monday afternoon, but as always, if you see something that is a price you are comfortable paying, I’d recommend you jump on it, rather than waiting for a better deal, when it comes to travel, you have just as much likelihood of prices going up, as down.