Find the Cheapest Destinations for Your Latest Trip
When it comes to vacations, we all have destinations that we know we want to visit. However, sometimes you just have to get away for a long weekend and just about any place will do. Of course, wherever it does not turn out to be for the bank.
MIT’s Senseable City Lab recently launched a new interactive map to help answer the question of where you should actually go at the last moment. According to Fast Company , with this tool, you enter your hometown and travel dates, and then creates an interactive map showing the potential travel costs around the world.
The map itself is color-coded, with green dots on cities where you can fly the cheapest and red dots to the most expensive destinations. Between them are shades of yellow and orange, representing flights that have reached the golden mean.
The prices for the next few weeks are clearly a bit overpriced due to the holidays, so I did a quick search for January 11-14. The site has certainly recommended a ton of stains in the United States, but there are actually a decent amount of stains in Europe that could claim this greenish designation as well.
For example, a flight to Cork, Ireland this weekend costs about $ 650. Yes, it’s more expensive than the $ 200 plane ticket that is listed on the site to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and not exactly cheap, but intriguing. I would have thought the last minute round trip from San Francisco to Ireland would be significantly more expensive, and I wouldn’t even think about it.
Aside from mapping everything, the site also allows you to filter results by your specific budget and by where you can fly directly (a must when you have a limited amount of time).
And when you find a place you like, you can click on it to see pictures of what you can do when you get there.