The Reverend's Trip to New York

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So you may have seen this blog post about how I got return flights to New York for £127 inc taxes and luggage.

http://thereverend.co.uk/blog/travel/fly-new-york-cheap/

I think hotels are going to be about £120-150 a day for the 7 days I'm there. Based on that I need get £840 to pay for the hotels. This isn't too impossible although its only 5 months away. Its £168 a month for the next 5 months so that will be my target for September, October, November, December, January. I was planning on targeting £150 a month anyway so it means a little bit of a stretch target.

It might also be the encouragement I need to get back on MB.
 
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Thanks Jon, Just booked via ebookers and hopefully the price will drop elsewhere and I'll save some more cash.
Oh man good move!

I crawled backed LOADS using that tactic
 

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Just put the claim in for a price that is £300 cheaper than we paid.... That would drop the price loads....lets see! :D
 

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Just put the claim in for a price that is £300 cheaper than we paid.... That would drop the price loads....lets see! :D

Just remember to include a screenshot showing like for like and a direct link to the page and they WILL refund
@Moneyless Man was on this ebookers money saving journey with me and used to see all my refund emails lol
 
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Just remember to include a screenshot showing like for like and a direct link to the page and they WILL refund
@Moneyless Man was on this ebookers money saving journey with me and used to see all my refund emails lol
Takes the per day cost to £110 for the hotel which is 4.5 rated! I've also got a queen suite with city views! I can't wait. Also put on Paypal Credit so interest free for 4 months which is roughly how long I planned to pay it off by. This is all a plan and it is currently working perfectly. A £300 discount would be the icing on the cake!
 

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Takes the per day cost to £110 for the hotel which is 4.5 rated! I've also got a queen suite with city views! I can't wait. Also put on Paypal Credit so interest free for 4 months which is roughly how long I planned to pay it off by. This is all a plan and it is currently working perfectly. A £300 discount would be the icing on the cake!

good old PayPal credit, they must hate me

I took just why of £1000 off them when my laptop died and I decided to get a Macbook pro but couldn't afford to wait a week without a laptop when I would have money so I paid for it on the apple website using PP credit and then paid it all off about 5 days later when money arrived earlier than planned lol
 

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good old PayPal credit, they must hate me

I took just why of £1000 off them when my laptop died and I decided to get a Macbook pro but couldn't afford to wait a week without a laptop when I would have money so I paid for it on the apple website using PP credit and then paid it all off about 5 days later when money arrived earlier than planned lol

When its Interest Free, its like they are giving money away! :D
 

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oh yeah and I used TCB when booking via ebookers and got £220 back!
 

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They are giving 13% at the moment but it isn't showing tracked yet. Hopefully it will track soon. Another bonus if it works but I won't cry if it doesn't.
It should track, I think ours took a day or two to appear
 

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So you may have seen this blog post about how I got return flights to New York for £127 inc taxes and luggage.

http://thereverend.co.uk/blog/travel/fly-new-york-cheap/

I think hotels are going to be about £120-150 a day for the 7 days I'm there. Based on that I need get £840 to pay for the hotels. This isn't too impossible although its only 5 months away. Its £168 a month for the next 5 months so that will be my target for September, October, November, December, January. I was planning on targeting £150 a month anyway so it means a little bit of a stretch target.

It might also be the encouragement I need to get back on MB.
I would save money on hotels and go Airbnb cheaper much cheaper!
 

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The hotel hasn't tracked yet so I've raised a case with TCB

It is September so I need to start clearning it down.

£1246.84 is £250 a month for the next 5 months.

Currently £72.50 / £250 in my paypal account to pay for september. Just under a 3rd of the way there.
 

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Did you get your ebookers refund?
 

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I'm having to resubmit as they are saying the original screenshot didn't show the same thing.

But I'll get a refund! I just have to keep playing the game until they give in!
They will give in, just give them exactly what they want and I found being a bit stern in how you write the email can help ;)
 

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