Online Travel Booking and Bidding Agencies - Help with buying cheap tickets to Thailand?

I am trying to buy 2 adult tickets to Thailand (BKK), from Denver (DIA) roughly 12/13/09-1/17/10.

Does anyone have suggestions or ideas about the best place to look for these? We have quite a few continental miles saved up, but those don't seem to be the way to go here.

Thanks for the help!

CO is now in the Star Alliance, which should have some good opportunities. The time you're traveling is pretty much high season, so being able to use the miles can be tough. What do you consider a "good amount" of CO miles?

We have 25K each...

We have 25K each...

25k each is only enough for a domestic ticket at normal levels. Not a "good amount" when flying international. :)

Doing a basic search on www.itasoftware.com, I find $1142 or so as the cheapest for a month long stay, but didn't plug your exact days in. Sometimes you'll find better prices out of LAX or SFO, so you might want to try checking there, and then seeing if you can find a cheap connecting flight. Also check flying to SIN, KUL, HKG, MNL or NRT, and then using your miles for an intra-asia award, or cheap low cost carriers (AirAsia, etc).

If you have a friend or relative with a lot of frequent flyer miles, you might also see if they'll book something for you.

thanks for the help, i'd be interested in your 1100 price, i can't find anything below 1,300.

Here is a trip that is close to your dates, around a month. As I mentioned before if YOU want to do some of the legwork at the site I mentioned below, you can probably do better. Also, I think UA has some discount certificates out there for 5-10% off, which would help a bit on these tickets.

$1207.60 in US Dollars
1 adult @ $1207.60
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Airport legend:

DEN: Denver Int'l
SEA: Seattle/Tacoma Sea/Tac
NRT: Tokyo Narita
BKK: Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Int'l

Denver, CO to Bangkok, Thailand: 8663 miles 25 hrs 27 min
United Airlines United Airlines Flight UA875 on a Boeing 757 (jet) in coach class
(food for purchase, movie)
Departs Denver, CO (DEN) Fri, Dec 11 8:18a 3 hrs 10 min
Arrives Seattle, WA (SEA) 10:28a
1 adult in booking code W, covered by fare (A1) below
Layover in Seattle 2 hrs 58 min
United Airlines United Airlines Flight UA875 on a Boeing 777 (jet) in coach class
(lunch, movie)
Departs Seattle, WA (SEA) Fri, Dec 11 1:26p 10 hrs 34 min
Arrives Tokyo, Japan (NRT) Sat, Dec 12 5:00p
1 adult in booking code W, covered by fare (A1) below
Layover in Tokyo 1 hr 35 min
United Airlines United Airlines Flight UA881 on a Boeing 747 (jet) in coach class
(dinner, movie)
Departs Tokyo, Japan (NRT) Sat, Dec 12 6:35p 7 hrs 10 min
Arrives Bangkok, Thailand (BKK) 11:45p
1 adult in booking code W, covered by fare (A1) below
Note: Although this is published as a "direct" flight, you must change planes at the connection in Seattle/Tacoma Sea/Tac (SEA).

Bangkok, Thailand to Denver, CO: 8663 miles 22 hrs 12 min
United Airlines United Airlines Flight UA882 on a Boeing 747 (jet) in coach class
(breakfast, snack, movie)
Departs Bangkok, Thailand (BKK) Wed, Jan 13 6:35a 5 hrs 40 min
Arrives Tokyo, Japan (NRT) 2:15p
1 adult in booking code W, covered by fare (A2) below
Layover in Tokyo 3 hrs 15 min
United Airlines United Airlines Flight UA876 on a Boeing 777 (jet) in coach class
(breakfast, dinner, movie)
Departs Tokyo, Japan (NRT) Wed, Jan 13 5:30p 8 hrs 39 min
Arrives Seattle, WA (SEA) 9:09a
1 adult in booking code W, covered by fare (A2) below
Layover in Seattle 2 hrs 3 min
United Airlines United Airlines Flight UA876 on an Airbus A320 (jet) in coach class
(food for purchase)
Departs Seattle, WA (SEA) Wed, Jan 13 11:12a 2 hrs 35 min
Arrives Denver, CO (DEN) 2:47p
1 adult in booking code W, covered by fare (A2) below
Note: Although this is published as a "direct" flight, you must change planes at the connection in Seattle/Tacoma Sea/Tac (SEA).
Note: The flight from Tokyo (NRT) to Seattle (SEA) is overnight.


Booking details
If you want to buy this ticket, contact the airline (United Airlines: 1-800-241-6522, http://www.ual.com/) or a travel agent. If you use a travel agent to buy this ticket:

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It is very important to use exactly the same booking codes and fare codes that we've used on this page in order to match the price we've found.

Fare (A1): UA DENBKK WLWR fare (rules) , psgr type ADT $503.50
Fare (A2): UA BKKDEN WLXR fare (rules) , psgr type ADT $476.00
Tax: US International Departure Tax $16.10
Tax: US September 11th Security Fee $2.50
Tax: US Passenger Facility Charge $4.50
Tax: USDA APHIS Fee $5.00
Tax: US Immigration Fee $7.00
Tax: US Customs Fee $5.50
Tax: US International Arrival Tax $16.10
Tax: UA YQ surcharge $150.00
Tax: Thailand Passenger Service Charge THB 700
Total for 1 adult passenger: $1207.60
(as of Friday, October 30, 2009 1:51am; fares loaded Friday, October 30, 2009 1:00am)
Fare construction (sometimes useful to travel agents):
DEN UA X/TYO UA BKK 503.50WLWR UA X/TYO UA DEN 476.00WLXR NUC 979.50 END ROE 1.00 FARE USD 980.00 XT 5.50YC 7.00XY 5.00XA 32.20US 2.50AY 20.90TS 150.00YQ 4.50XF DEN4.50

There you go:

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Hi,

Have you try looking at offers by local Thai travel agent in the US? When I was studying in US, I always buy through them and always get a better deal than booking directly at airlines. There are many agents in LA and Chicago. Sorry I forgot all their names.