Good ways to find cheap stayovers?
Let's assume my schedule is entirely flex and I'm (mostly) willing to rough it. On the other hand, I want to explore the possibility of long stopovers on my trip. Travel search engines have various price graphs etc. for flex-planning, but they're unavailable once you switch to multi-city. I understand it's probably because that's just too variable, and would be too hard for the computer.
On the other hand, making a thousand different queries is impossible for me either. Can someone recommend good ways of gaining intuition for making those flex multi-city queries?
Best Answer
Kayak allows you to search from A to B. Then on the results page, you can select which cities you're prepared to stopover in (from the possible routes that airlines can take). Then below that, you select how many hours (ie choose the longest ones available). This is usually how I tweak my searches to find short stopovers or long ones if I want to pop into the city to visit friends between flights, or check out a new destination for 'free'. However you're limited to scheduled stopovers, not breaking up flights. For that you'll likely need to play with ITA Matrix - but the learning curve can be steep for some.
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