Often people are looking to find the best time to be on holiday, whether it’s a long holiday for a couple of weeks or a short city trip for 2-4 days. In this post, we provide you some advice on the best time to be on holiday, but that depends from one person to another on a number of elements, whether you have flexibility at work to take your holiday whenever you want or whether you can only go on holidays when your kids have school holidays or when your partner is available. It can also depend on your budget as it’s one of the hurdles to find a good time to be on vacation. Here are our best tips which can help you find the best time to be on holiday:

1. Find a cheap flight to a country of destination

One of the key considerations for travelers while planning their holiday is to find a cheap flight to their country of destination. You could simply do that by either booking your flight early enough in the year if you already have a place in mind or by booking during the low season period. The best low season period that we identify is September, October,  May and sometimes you can find a good deal in June as well.

Use social media platforms to find the cheapest flight deals by following a number of travel bloggers and travel agencies which can find the deal for you, as these people post regularly on their Facebook page or on their Instagram profile the best flight deals they find on the internet.

Another way to find great flight deals is by subscribing to newsletters provided by travel agencies. This is ideal for those of you who would like to do a few city trips during a long weekend in order to explore a city or a country nearby.

In case you have few destinations in mind, you could also use our low fare calendar which can help you find the cheapest time to fly during the year.

2.   Bridge your holiday with bank holidays

Most people have work or other commitments in their life, they cannot just leave on holiday whenever they want to because they need to show up to work and they probably have limited days off in one year. Therefore, one of our best tips is to make the best out of your holiday by bridging them with bank holidays, whether it’s Independence Day or other types of holiday in your country of residence, take few days off before or after that day. This way you don’t waste your bank holidays, but you are actually enjoying them somewhere on the beach or on a mountain. So actually, this way you use your holidays more efficiently. Besides, this way you minimize the workload when you come back from holiday as everyone else had one or two days off due to a bank holiday. Of course, all of the above is correct if you plan your holiday in advance, that’s why planning your holiday is very important to make the best out of it.

3. Find the right work-holiday balance

Finding the best time to be on holiday isn’t always related to finding cheap flights and cheap hotels, a lot of people go on vacation simply because they need it. Nowadays, we live in a competitive environment that requires people to work hard. Thus, people want to have a regular break from work, they need to disconnect for a while from their daily activities and clear their minds in order to come back more productive, and the best way to do that is by being on holiday. Try to break your holiday in parts, make sure that you are not continuously working for more than 6 months. For instance, if you are entitled to take 20 days off in a year, try to break them into 3 or 4 parts as follows (5, 5, 10 days), if you take the first 5 days including weekends that would sum-up to 9 days which is a good period to be on vacation and disconnect for 9 days. You could arrange the second 5 days to have multiple city trips during a long weekend or you could use them to bridge with bank holidays. The last 10 days you could use for the so-called “holiday of the year”, which is normally people would take during the summer period. This way you break your holiday into parts.

The key element for all of the above is to plan your vacation days in advance and don’t leave it for the last second. We know that planning in advance can be very challenging due to different circumstances and requires some efforts but once you do it you could repeat the same plan every year, adjust it and build on it.

To recap:

• Find a cheap flight to a country of destination
• Bridge your holiday with bank holidays
• Find the right work-holiday balance