How far in advance is the best time to book a flight to the caribbean to get the lowest fare?

Don't really care whether its through expedia or orbitz or one of those. Also, is it less expensive to fly during a certain weekday rather than weekends?

Travel agents need not answer.

It's not really any less expensive to book with expedia than it is to buy directly from the airlines so don't rule out the airline web sites. Some general rules of thumb:

-Buy as far in advance as possible. Flights are announced/scheduled 330-364 days in advance and the prices only go up from there (with the exception of the occasional sale but those are hard to predict)

-Buying from the airline *usually* gets you a lowest price guarantee, where if the airline drops their fares on the same trip, same day, they will give you a credit/voucher for the difference. Not all airlines do this so check carefully if you're counting on it.

-Travel on Tuesdays and Saturdays for the lowest fares. Fares tend to be highest on Sunday, Monday, Thursday and Friday because of all the business travellers

A great site is farecompare.com because it will show you week-by-week prices between two places for all the airlines; you might get a much better fare if you schedule your trip a week earlier or later than you'd planned.

check out Spirit Air. i saw on the news this morning they have some less than $10 flights to the caribbean, but they are limitied and you have to book early.

Getting cheap last-minute flights is actually a bit of a myth. Airlines now use advanced computerised systems which calculate what the airline can reasonably charge at, and at which people will buy. At its heart is the principle that there is a short supply of seats closer to the date of departure. People who need to travel will therefore pay more. This is called yield management. Conversely there are occasions when the yield management system will need to shed seats and thus prices can come down and you can get a bargain. Unfortunately that's relatively rare.

In my experience it is best to do a couple of things.

1. generally buy well in advance - minimum 14 days.

2. use kayak.co.uk to compare what sites are offering flights at what price - then check on the airline's own page whether its same/more expensive or cheaper.

3. try your best to avoid travelling on friday,sat,sun and mon - flights tend to be more expensive then as people go on holiday or business.

4. you can often find the same flight cheaper by connecting from a different airport (example follows).

I'm going on Holiday to Bangkok from London in May with Qantas. By actually flying to Munich and back into London to get the same Qantas flight out I saved 66%. Go figure.

Very useful to do this is orbitz.com who calculated a lot more workable permutations than expedia or lastminute will.

virgin-atlantic have some excellent prices to caribbean if you book a couple of months in advance.

hope that helps, have a great holiday!

my mum booked a holiday 4 four of us to go to Crete on the Internet, i think it was on aspor & for four adults it cost 595.00

that is bed & breakfast aswell. we are flying from bristol on a tuesday after bank holiday so i sugest u look the web and find a chep holiday, & i also recomend that you fly out to there on a week-day instead of the wee-end, as it will save u money. and if u like the flight meals keep them but my family doesnt like them so she took them off & that saved us 50 pounds, good luck in finding your holiday.