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Next Vacay Review: You Need Next Vacay in Your Life

Next Vacay has saved us hundreds of dollars in flights in the last two years and allowed us to travel more than ever. If you haven’t signed up for Next Vacay, you are missing out on flight deals from your home to pretty much anywhere in the world.

This Next Vacay review walks you through how Next Vacay works as well as the deals we have found and booked on Next Vacay. It is simple and easy to use. All you need to do is check your email and then book the flight like you normally would!

I first found out about Next Vacay through a blog post I saw on an Instagram story. I read the post and thought for sure it was too good to be true. After reading a few Next Vacay reviews, we decided to give it a try since it was only $25 for a year with a money-back guarantee. Now it is one of our favorite ways to save money on travel.

***Some of the links in this post may be affiliate links. Purchasing through these links earns us a commission at no extra charge to you. This is NOT a sponsored post but a real review of our experiences with Next Vacay. We were not asked to write this post and wrote it because we love Next Vacay so much.

We flew to London for $450 round trip with Next Vacay and went to London Bridge to take pictures of Tower Bridge at sunrise.

Tower Bridge in London after flying to London from Florida for $450 round trip

HOW NEXT VACAY WORKS

When you sign up for Next Vacay, you are signing up to receive email alerts about cheap flights from your home to the world. There is a free trial period right now, but it is only $25 a year after that. We easily made back that money in the savings on our first flight.

During registration, you enter your closest airport. Next Vacay sends you emails for flights from that airport and any other airport within about 4 hours.

For us, we live in Orlando and registered in Orlando. We receive flight deals from Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, Fort Lauderdale and Miami. Sometimes it is worth the drive to save a few hundred dollars a ticket. In fact, we saved $600 on one flight by driving 3 hours each way to Ft. Lauderdale.

We flew to London for Christmas for $450 round trip with Next Vacay. This meant we got to enjoy the Christmas lights on Oxford Street.

With flights to London for $450 round trip from Florida, we got to go check out London at Christmas

Next Vacay searches Google Flights for flight deals. When they find a good deal, they send you an email alert. The email alert lets you know the destination, the current lowest price, and the range of dates the price is available for right now.

You typically have 24 – 48 hours to book that deal. However, Next Vacay does not control the flight prices, so they cannot always tell when a price will jump. Because of this, they recommend buying within a day or two of getting the email. We have waited a few weeks and been able to get the same deal, but do not count on it.

The flight deals are for a range of times, usually spanning a few months. It helps to have flexible dates when booking flights as the deal is not available every day of that time period. You can often find that deal for multiple sets of days throughout the time period though.

Once you get an email with a deal you like, click on the link in the email. That takes you directly to Google Flights. Many times it automatically pulls up one of the cheapest options for you.

From there, you can choose the dates you wanted to see if it works for your dates. Google Flights will also show you how much you can save by leaving or returning on nearby dates. If your dates are flexible, you are likely to be able to find a great deal for your flights.

We flew to Vegas for $100 round trip with Next Vacay and went hiking in Red Rock Canyon.

Hiking in Red Rock Canyon outside of Las Vegas after flying to Vegas for $100

PROS & CONS OF USING NEXT VACAY

Next Vacay has been great for us. We pay $25 and get a year of great flight deals. We tend to book flights somewhat last minute, but we still find great deals just a month or so before trips with Next Vacay.

Next Vacay is not limited to flights within the US. I get emails for flight deals to Europe, South America, Asia, Australia, and Africa. There are also flight deals within the USA which makes it great for us to travel close to home too.

If you do not have a home base and are more of a full-time traveler, Next Vacay may not be as useful to you. Because you need to put in a set airport, it only sends you deals from that airport or nearby airports. If you are hardly ever home to use that airport, it is probably not a great fit. 

If, however, you have a couple of home bases, it may still be worth it. You pay more as you pay $25 for each airport, but it might still be worth it. It definitely depends on your situation though.

 

Our travel tends to be flexible. We usually have a wide range of dates we can travel. Even teaching full-time, I could often move a trip a day or two if needed to save money. The more flexible your travel plans, the better Next Vacay does at finding you deals.

If your destination and dates are flexible, you will definitely be able to find great deals. If your destination is set and your dates are flexible, you can still find great deals. Sometimes it might be worth it to fly to a nearby airport to save money depending on how much you save.

If there are no deals to your specific destination, sometimes flying to a nearby large hub helps you find a better rate. For example, we have flown to London to get to another stop because the flight deals for London made it so much cheaper. Then we booked a second flight from London to Belgium. 

Next Vacay is a little harder to use if you have set dates and a set destination. It worked out for us when I had to be in Las Vegas for certain dates. Other times it has not worked out. No deals came in for the place we needed and the specific dates we needed, even if we moved it a day or two.

Because flight prices change quickly, Next Vacay also works best if you are able to book pretty quickly. This can be difficult if you have to ask for days off at work and don’t hear back right away. Sometimes the deals last a few weeks or even a month though, so it still might work out for you.

Red Rocks Canyon in Las Vegas after we found cheap flights to Las Vegas with Next Vacay.

Hiking Red Rocks Canyon in Las Vegas after we found round trip flights from Florida for $100

A REVIEW OF OUR NEXT VACAY FLIGHT DEALS

In November of 2017 we took our first trip booked through Next Vacay. I ran the Rock n’ Roll Las Vegas Half Marathon, and we needed a flight from Orlando to Las Vegas. Flights ran around $350 at the time. We decided to wait and see.

Because we had set dates we needed to be in Las Vegas, we knew we may not get a flight deal from Next Vacay. When a deal for $100 round trip flights from Fort Lauderdale arrived in my email, we booked it. Fort Lauderdale is about 3 hours from home, but we saved about $250 per person on the flight.

Enjoying the view of the Las Vegas Strip at sunset with our $100 round trip flight to Las Vegas thanks to Next Vacay.

Las Vegas Strip at sunset thanks to our $100 round trip flights

Later in the year, we booked our first international flight through Next Vacay. My brother-in-law and his family lived in Belgium for two years, and we knew we wanted to visit them.

We hoped to be able to go at Christmas, but all the flights we saw to anywhere in Europe started at about $800 a person. An email came in for a $450 flight to London, and we decided to book it. We flew Norwegian Air and booked through the Norwegian version of the site, saving another $40 a ticket.

While in Europe on this trip, we also traveled to Scotland, and Belgium. We even spent New Year’s Eve in Paris! Thanks to the cheap flight to London and cheap transportation within Europe, we managed to visit family and do some sightseeing. 

Spending New Year's Eve in Paris at the Arc de Triomphe thanks to our cheap flights to London.

New Year’s Eve in Paris thanks to our cheap flight to London

In May of 2018, we booked a third flight, this time to Los Angeles to visit my cousin and her husband and my husband’s aunt and cousin. We hadn’t planned on taking this trip, but we found a flight for $175 and couldn’t resist. Flights to LA are usually anywhere from $300 – $400 round trip.

We used them again to go to Los Angeles for the about same price in March of 2019. We again visited family and took a road trip to Death Valley National Park, Joshua Tree National Park, and San Francisco.

Thanks to a cheap flight to Los Angeles, we checked out some neat tide pools in Laguna Beach.

Tide pools in Laguna Beach on our California road trip thanks to Next Vacay

We also took a sponsored trip to Europe with Next Vacay in November of 2018. This let us spend Thanksgiving with my husband’s brother and his family in Barcelona. We wanted to visit them one more time before they came home, so we used my Thanksgiving Break at school to go back to Europe.

Our flights were $550 round trip into Barcelona from Florida. We also booked a cheap flight to visit Portugal once we bought the tickets for Barcelona. Flying directly to Portugal from Florida usually costs more, so using Barcelona as a hub saved us money on Portugal too.

Thanks to a cheap flight to Barcelona, we got to enjoy sunset at Bunkers del Carmel in Barcelona

Bunkers del Carmel in Barcelona at sunset after finding cheap flights to Barcelona with Next Vacay

EXAMPLES OF FLIGHT DEALS ON NEXT VACAY

To show the variety of flight deals available on Next Vacay, I want you to see some of the deals I have received. I typically receive anywhere from 5 – 10 emails a week with flight deals. Here are just a few of the deals from this year:

  • Miami to Bogota, Colombia, on a nonstop flight in Business Class for $700 from late November to May
  • Miami to London for $525 from early January to late August
  • Fort Lauderdale to Bridgetown (Barbados) on a nonstop flight for $275 from early January to mid-March
  • Tampa to Quito for $425 from late November to early June
  • Orlando to Panama City on a nonstop flight for $200 from mid-March to late May
  • Fort Lauderdale to Vancouver for $350 from late November to late January
  • Tampa to Dublin for $350 from early January to late March
  • Orlando to Paris for $400 from mid-January to early May
  • Orlando to Brussels for $500 from mid-January to mid March
  • Miami to Milan on a nonstop flight for $400 from late November to early April
  • Orlando to Beijing for $475 from early November to late April
  • Fort Lauderdale to Shanghai for $575 from late October to late April

I have also seen deals to Tokyo for $600, to Toronto for $275, to Chicago for $100. Sometimes the deal is actually a little better than advertised. For example, when I looked into the Orlando to Paris for $400 deal, I found flights in those date ranges for as little as $376.

Even if there isn’t a city you want to visit, you can use these deals to still get where you wanted to go for less. For example, use any of these deals to get to Europe and then fly local European airlines or trains to get to where you wanted to go (see the best travel apps to use here).

Want to go to Australia? Book the deal to Beijing and catch a cheap flight to Sydney to save hundreds on the cost of booking straight into Australia. The deal I checked out on this saved us over $600 a person compared to normal flights from Florida to Australia. We didn’t take the trip, but we might next time!

Thanks to a cheap flight to Los Angeles, we checked out some neat tide pools in Laguna Beach at sunset.

Tide pool in Laguna Beach on our California road trip thanks to Next Vacay

After reading this Next Vacay review, what are you waiting for? Head over to Next Vacay and sign up now to start saving money on flights! 

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Elsa

Friday 3rd of January 2020

Very informative! Great reading!

Christine Wheeler

Friday 3rd of January 2020

Thank you!

Tina

Wednesday 18th of December 2019

I've never heard about Next Vacay before, will definitely check it out! What an interesting concept!

Christine Wheeler

Sunday 22nd of December 2019

I love it - it really has helped us find some great travel deals!

shafinah.neville

Monday 16th of December 2019

Wow! Definitely gonna check Next Vacay out - thanks for this super nifty tip! ????????????

Christine Wheeler

Sunday 22nd of December 2019

We love it! Hope you find some amazing deals for 2020!

navigationjunk

Sunday 15th of December 2019

I will have to check this out, sounds like a great tool! I always love saving money-and love the idea of just going when the price is right! Adds a little more adventure!

Christine Wheeler

Sunday 22nd of December 2019

Thank you! We really enjoy it, and it has allowed us to travel to places we didn't think we would be able to because of high flight prices.

Marina

Sunday 15th of December 2019

Just love this! I usually plan my trips months ahead based on the flight prices I would find but this is so fun to travel more spontaneously! Definitely will check New Vacay for next year :)

Christine Wheeler

Sunday 22nd of December 2019

Thank you! Next Vacay has helped us travel to places that we previously thought might be too expensive because of the usual flight prices. Plus, it's kind of fun to travel based on where you find the best deal. Hope you find some great travel deals for 2020!