{"id":2448,"date":"2014-12-26T22:59:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T22:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2014-12-26T23:04:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T23:04:37","slug":"the-best-time-to-book-winter-destination-holidays-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/the-best-time-to-book-winter-destination-holidays-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"The best time to book winter destination holidays revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyscanner.net\/\">Skyscanner<\/a> have analysed thousands of searches from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/uk\/\">UK<\/a> to reveal when is the best time to book for the six most popular winter city destinations, here are the results\u2026<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Based on searches to these cities, the results reveal that this\u00a0ranges from three to eight weeks\u00a0depending on the destination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_128641241.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2451\" title=\"shutterstock_128641241\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_128641241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_128641241.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_128641241-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/bangkok\/\">Bangkok<\/a> \u2013\u00a0<strong>3 weeks<\/strong>\u00a0before departure<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/geneva\/\">Geneva<\/a> \u2013\u00a0<strong>3 weeks<\/strong>\u00a0before departure<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/berlin\/\">Berlin<\/a> \u2013<strong>\u00a05 weeks\u00a0<\/strong>before departure<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/miami\/\">Miami<\/a> \u2013\u00a0<strong>5 weeks<\/strong>\u00a0before departure<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/sydney\/\">Sydney<\/a>\u00a0<strong>\u2013 6 weeks<\/strong>\u00a0before departure<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/hong_kong\/\">Hong Kong<\/a> \u2013\u00a0<strong>8 weeks<\/strong>\u00a0before departure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The destinations picked for this analysis were chosen as they see their popularity soar over the winter period, with the biggest increase in searches between August and December of all global cities.<\/p>\n<p>This analysis follows a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyscanner.net\/news\/find-cheap-flights-best-time-book-skyscanner\">detailed study<\/a>\u00a0at the beginning of the year in which we revealed that in general the best time to book for the best chance of cheapest fares is five weeks before travel.\u00a0 However the study also highlighted that it depends on the destination and analysed the top ten most popular country destinations including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/spain\/\">Spain<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/greece\/\">Greece<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/france\/\">France<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/portugal\/\">Portugal<\/a>, typically popular summer destinations.<\/p>\n<p>Without a doubt this is the most commonly asked question we get as everyone wants to increase their chances of getting a bargain. At Skyscanner we feel it is important to analyse all this data we have access to and share this insight with travellers to help them get the best prices.<\/p>\n<p>The country analysis we provided at the beginning of the year proved very popular so we wanted to follow this up with some more detailed analysis for cities, for destinations that people are keen to visit this winter.\u00a0 However, as always our advice if you really want to ensure you get a good deal is to track fares by signing up for price alerts on your chosen route.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on price alerts visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyscanner.net\/news\/get-best-air-fares-skyscanner-price-alerts\">http:\/\/www.skyscanner.net\/news\/get-best-air-fares-skyscanner-price-alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Skyscanner<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skyscanner have analysed thousands of searches from the UK to reveal when is the best time to book for the six most popular winter city destinations, here are the results\u2026 Based on searches to these cities, the results reveal that this\u00a0ranges from three to eight weeks\u00a0depending on the destination. Bangkok \u2013\u00a03 weeks\u00a0before departure Geneva \u2013\u00a03 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":1122,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}