tomthumb. I have to agree with you on this one. This year I bagged flights to Paris for less than €20, to Dubrovnik for €9, to Malaga for €20. Last year I got Amsterdam and Brussels for similar prices. I am already researching Krakow, Bratislava as well as the other Aer Lingus and Ryanair destinations for Christmas markets and spring 2006. I have accumulated a handful of web sites that offer hotels at discounted rates and regularly compare prices on these, its amazing how the room prices can vary on each web site. However I now find that I am getting mean when it comes to paying any more than €20 for a flight or €80 for a double room with breakfast. The reason being is that I have been able to do this in the past so easily that these prices are now the norm.
I have also earmarked various "weather" and "currency conversion" websites and have started keeping the "city breaks" page that the Irish Independent produces each Saturday. I am also the person often seen getting a free read from the travel books in Waterstones on a Sunday. The Holidays and Travel section of Askaboutmoney is one of my favourites, thanks Sueellen.
Despite suffering from fairly severe claustrophobia that causes panic attacks on planes and will never get me in a lift I still intend to travel as much as I possibly can.
Travel junkie and travel research junkie? I would say so....