Can you help me travel cheaper to Bangkok?

I want to go to Bangkok for 4-7 days in Mid-March (preferably sometime between March 15 and the 22). I live in Milwaukee but I'm able to depart from Chicago or Minneapolis. My goal is to spend $800 bucks or less...is it possible? I've tried Orbitz, Travelocity, Expedia, Hotwire, and Priceline, but the best I could find was $1274 round trip.

Thanks for your help!

The best way to find the lowest price is to compare prices from different travel discount sites. Bookingbuddy.com is a really great site where you enter your travel information, departure/arrival cities and dates, only once and it allows you to search 12 different discount sites: Expedia.com, Farecast.com, Orbitz.com, travelocity.com, cheapoair.com, cheaptickets.com, Smartfares.com, JetBlue.com, AmericanAirlines.com, OneTravel.com, Princeline.com and CheapAir.com.

The best thing to do is to click and open the different sites in different windows three at a time so you can compare them, keep the cheapest and open the next three and so on and so on until you have compared them all and have found the absolute cheapest price. Also, one really good tip is to avoid weekend departure dates as they are higher. I hope this helps, good luck on your bargain hunting and have a blast on your trip.

I wouldn't bother going to Thailand for 4-7 days.

Try 4-7 weeks if your gonna go..

The Airport (BKK) was just recently closed due to gov't protesters. But apparently it's reopened to travel.

Good luck finding airfare for under $1000 nowadays.

I would say impossible now. In the past you could. Also it's not very smart to travel all the way here from the USA for just 4 to 7 days. You need at least 3 weeks. My advice is to wait until you have the money to travel and enjoy Thailand.