Canadians.. any know were to book online through?

I am from Ottawa, Ontario Canada area and we are looking to book in Feb...does anyone know who to book through? who has great deals?

 

In Canada, most of the vacations to AI resorts are sold by "tour companies" like Nolitours, Signature Vacations, Sunquest, etc. These companies bundle together the flight, hotel, and transfers into one package. From my experience I rarely find the prices different no matter where I look. All travel agencies sell the same packages from the same tour companies, and so the pricing is almost always the same. For Canadians, booking a flight (i.e. through Air Canada) and then booking the hotel separate (direct with Temptations or through Alpharooms.com, etc.) is rarely cheaper unless you find a killer flight deal or can fly on points.

So, you'll find everyone has their preferred agency but in reality the pricing is likely the same at all, as long as you are looking at the exact same dates, with the exact same room class, with the exact same tour company (i.e. signature) at the exact same time.

All that said, I usually use itravel2000.com as my agency of choice, but feel free to shop around at any agency like expedia, marlin travel, flight network, etc. You never know.

 

Hi there...Sunwing has a no tax sale but i think it ends today

 

We are in Ottawa as well, we booked through Nolitours via a travel agent. It was the same price as online. We had to book a couple of months ago as they sell out pretty quick

 

As people have said

this year we booked eveything on a sunwing package and that was the cheapest we could get, all the sites are the same but you may be able to find the same trip with say price protection or $40 cashback if you check the different sites, but really not much of a difference

you also can check what the tour companies price is on just the charter flight, last year I saved a few hundred booking the air transat flight and the room thru alpharooms, this year though the flight portion was so high you couldnt beat the package,

air miles and alpharooms would be the absolute cheapest option if you had enough miles

 

Other ones I have used...

Sunwing.ca
redtag.ca
expedia.ca

Pretty much all of them have similar prices. Another option is to try bing.com/travel A friend of mine and myself booked our flights using that as a search earlier this week. The vast majority of the results are off of American sites but sometimes you can find a diamond in the rough. Our flight on westjet we found on Orbitz.com which we couldn't even duplicate on the westjet.com site.

 

Normally I use Itravel2000 as well, looking at this year, they are more expensive (we are considering Cabos) than AirCanadaVacations. If I go to RedTag.Ca, they give me a few options and one matches the AirCanadaVacations and in fact it is identical, excpet they advertise price protection which AirCanadaVacations direct does not.

As someone mentioned earlier, they are all pretty well the same, so you have to look at the extra's to make your decision. Lower taxes, price protection, I remember the other year someone was offering a laptop or something. Itravel has a fall promotion where your trip is free if it snows 5" on New Years Day (has only ahppened once in last five years), but anyway, go after the gimmicks because the prices are pretty close.

 

We booked through Nolitours, but their online system was broken for Temptations. We ended up calling because the site thought one or more of us were under 21.. It was a long wait ion hold but it's gonna be worth it!

 

We've booked a few times each with Expedia.ca and with Sunwing as well. Not sure if I'm being factual but it seems that you are "sardines in a can" with the Sunwing flights, they really pack you in nice and snug! Our Expedia booked trips we have been able to fly with WestJet which we personally prefer.

 

We usually use itravel2000.com