Back in December I started to plan our holiday to Playa Montroig Camping Resort with Eurocamp and I was really grateful there is no set arrival day so I could seek out the best price for our flights. As we needed to travel during May half term I knew there wasn't going to be any bargains but I hoped to secure something at least half reasonable in price.
At first I checked
flights from Gatwick and Heathrow as these airports are closest to us and ones
we've flown from before but the dates, times and prices were not ideal. I then
remembered that fellow blogger Vicki from Honest Mum is working as an
ambassador for Jet2 and I decided to check them out.
Who are Jet2 - Should we fly with them?
Being a Southern girl
they weren't an airline I’d heard of before but when I started investigating
them I found out they are the UK’s fourth largest scheduled airline. But more
importantly that they were named the ‘Best Airline – UK’ and the ‘Best Low-Cost Airline – Europe’ at the
TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Awards and they are also the only UK airline to
have ‘Which? Recommended Provider’ status. It was all pretty impressive but the
clincher for me was that they were starting to fly from Stansted in May and that's only a couple of hours drive from us.
Almost straight away I
found an ideal flight time from Stansted to Reus with a 8.45am departure and a 2.15pm arrival back in the UK.
To be able to secure a good price I booked for the Monday of half-term and
resigned myself to the fact I'd need to ask for a day off school for each of
the kids. There were flights on the Friday and Sunday too but these were around
£600 more for the five of us and thus a day off it would need to be.