You can book a villa virtually anytime-then just get your flight nearer the date.

Good choice-btw.

My daughter was married in Florida.

If you have a read through THIS topic in the tour operators/travel agents forum, you'll see some holidays for S'07 went on sale in April so I imagine it would be the same time of year for S'08.

I'm not sure when holidays will go on sale for earlier in 2008 though.

Villa bookings could probably be made earlier than package holidays.

Pippy

Oops!
Sorry Alison, didn't see your post!

hi has anyone booked their orlando hols for next year yet, if anyone has did you get a good price and who did you book with we are looking for filghts and to book a villa seperately for march would rather get recommendations from here as there are so many websites. thanx

holqueen,
we have booked end of may 2008 with direct holidays
offering free kids at moment, and though partly at half term, only paying £1679 for 4 of us. Plus only £20 low deposit!

Mark

May is lovely-I'm here right now and it is hot!!!!

and quite quiet as the american schools don't break up for about another week.

Hi Shell
I have already booked for October 2008, this was with Thomas Cook but I am sure that other airlines are on sale now, I do know that Virgin are but found them expensive.
I booked a Hotel on I/Drive for 2ad & 2ch for £1986.
Goodluck with the wedding.
Regards Liz.

We have booked a villa in Naples, Florida during August 2008, but cannot find anybody to give a sensible quote for flights at this time Does anybody have any suggestions? [/b]

Where are you looking to fly to & from Fireman Sam ?

Are you hoping to go schedule or charter ? And will you be hiring a car ?

Try Ocean Florida or Travel Planners....or wait till Virgin have a sale (try both Virgin Holidays (flydrive) & Virgin Atlantic..you should be able to get 10% anytime with frequent flyers club)

Try Travel City Direct (flydrive) if you are going for 2 weeks.

Thanks for the info jdybnsn

We have used Travel City Direct in the past, but I have not heard of Ocean Florida or Travel Planners! I will give these a try, many thanks.

We would be flying from Manchester, but have not decided on where to fly to as it is dependent on the price, probably Sanford or Miami.

Hi jdybnsn,

You mentioned Ocean Florida in your message, but I cannot find a website for them!

Do you know the web address

I found Travel Planners okay and have requested some info from them, so thanks for that.

Hi

Sorry my computer is playing up and I can't seem to copy and paste links at the moment (perhaps someone else would be so kind ?).
If you Google Ocean-Florida.com it should come up. They got me some really great rates for Virgin flights from Manchester (but they deal with alsorts of airlines) for Feb 2008 and their customer service is excellent.

Skybargains is another place to try.

TCD are hard to beat (we flew with them last holiday) but we needed over 14 days this time so could not use them

http://www.ocean-florida.com/

Thanks Pippy !

A few other places for you to try Fireman Sam ;

Charter Travel
Travel Republic

Hope you get sorted soon !!

Thanks jdybnsn & Pippy

I have e-mailed these companies for some info!

They look a better option than where I have tried so far, so many thanks.

holqueen1, I have booked to go to Florida next April (17th) with Virgin. We booked about 2 months ago with Courier Travel Club. We have 2 weeks Virgin (fly/drive) with 1st week hotel (Caribean Beach Resort/2nd week villa £2700. Aparently this is the cheapest time to go! Not sure if I got a good deal or not, I was quite happy with this. Also not sure if we did right thing splitting hotel and villa but this seems to be the thing to do now if you have had enough parks in the first week to travel out a bit. Hope we dont lose too much time travelling to the next accomodation. Has anything done this before? Would appreciate any information. Not booked any tickets yet. Sue

Hi Suebar,

In answer to one of your queries, regarding splitting up the holiday. In the past when we have gone to the parks in Orlando it is a good idea to spend the second week away from the area Near a beach for instance
The parks can be very tiring, and if you spend two weeks there you will probably need another holiday after it
I do not know anything about the hotel you have chosen, but you mentioned loosing time travelling to the next destination, but have not said where you would be staying Are you planning to stay in the Orlando area, or travel further down into Florida?

Hi

I'm totally new to Florida, we usually go on a package to Greece etc. I have no idea where to start - firstly we would like to see Disney but not for the whole holiday, I quite fancy staying in the same accommodation for the whole 2 weeks but I don't know which area??? thought we could perhaps do Disney for 3 days (is that long enough?) and then maybe spending a few days near a beach (if there are any) and then perhaps another few days seeing other attractions (not sure what they are !!) maybe sea world (not sure where that is either). This is a bit jumbled I know so any information anyone can give would be greatly appreciated. I've kind of lost the will to live already - please help

Thanks

Joo

Hi Joo,

A couple of pointers to start you off

If you want to make life easy for your first trip to Florida, then Travel City Direct (TCD) do a whole host of packages to Disney and Florida. They mainly cater for the Orlando area.
There are loads of websites that individuals use to hire their villas throughout Florida, so if you want to organise some of the trip yourselfes it is possible. (Type in Villas, Florida, USA into Google search and you are usually hit with hundred's )
We tend to book our villa ourselfes then use companies like TCD to organise the flights. Shop around for flights and ask for current advise from this site, as we do each year.
If you want to stay in one accomodation it would require alot of travelling if you wish to mix Disney and beaches
The main beach resorts in Florida are anything from an hour + from the Disney area, so it would be better to book a Hotel in Orlando for the day's you want to do the parks, and then a Villa/Hotel near one of the beach resorts (St Pete's beach, Fort Lauderdale, Sarrasota, etc)
Depending on budget the Disney hotels in the complex are of a good standard and offer you extra time in the parks for being one of their guests. Go onto http://www.travelcitydirect.co.uk and order a brochure, as they have a section in the brochure dedicated to Disney information Hope this helps for now. Any other information you need please feel free to post a question
Have to sign off, as unfortunately I'm off to work