Originally Posted by
TrojanTraveler
One of the world's great cities. And Turks defintely are great with kids. Friends of ours were apprehensive about going, hearing misleading information in the media, and we encouraged them to go with their two kids. They were also apprehensive in that they are white and one of their kids is adopted from East Asia. They had a great time and can't wait to go back.
So, we booked our flights under this promo tonight...surprisingly on Orbitz, the flights were cheaper to book than on Turkish's (THY) own site, plus we qualified for a bunch of 'orbucks' (I have no clue what they are, but i'll do some research).
DOJ for us, since it made the most sense and got us to see a few new places for the same cost, and allowed us to get some preferred times for the flights:
JFK-IST-VIE (on the 14h00 flight instead of the other east coast flights that leave around midnight)
BUD-IST (arriving at noon)
IST-IAD (the following day, leaving at 13h00, giving us just over 25 hours in iStanbul)
US$650,40 each, with 3 tickets and an infant ticket - cheap and great, all during the East Coast (maybe the whole of America?) Spring Break from school...
Good Luck to all, and for folks wanting to do a single Open Jaw or double, keep in mind that you can route this through IST both ways for a bunch of different places you could see on the cheap!
-jeremy