One for those that love the magic of Christmas...

Father Christmas, reindeer and snow: Lapland's got the lot. So this week's challenge is to find the cheapest price for a return flight to Lapland for one adult going on a short break in December from any UK airport.

We've found a return flight on travelocity.co.uk for £483. This is for one adult going to Kittila, Finland on Friday 9th December and returning to Heathrow on Sunday 11th December with Finnair. Can you beat this? Tell us about it here and we'll give the best tipster a fantastic case of wine courtesy of Virgin Money.

Next week, Virgin Money will be giving away another fantastic case of wine for the bargainhunter who can come up with the cheapest DAB radio. Watch out for this in next Friday's 4Money Forum.

Well done to way2good who found an eye-popping bargain of a Sony PSP at mkphones.com for £127.

Shopping tips and more info on this week's Challenge to be found here.

I've found one leaving Manchester Airport on 9th to Kittila, returning 11th, for one adult, cost £422.30 incuding all taxes.

http://www.atpi.com/tc.dll?ac=search&st=fares&tid=MAN5-ZL8EHOAJS-A

Sorry, link has expired, but I looked on the manchester Airport site and found it that way. Beats yours by £60.70.

This is a hard challenge as a lot of sites won't let you search for flights for today

Hi Meerustar - you just have to find the cheapest price in December for short stint in Lapland - it doesn't have to be 9th to 11th. Happy hunting!

http://www.charterflights.co.uk/sabs/search-result.php?...d=&search=Search+%BB

thats the link i used and infor below cut and pasted direct from the page

Manchester (MAN) to Kittila, Lapland £99
Per Adult
Sunday 11 December 2005 3 Nights
Date Route Flight No. Depart Arrive
Sun 11 Dec 2005 MAN to KTT n/a n/a n/a
Wed 14 Dec 2005 KTT to MAN n/a n/a n/a
Last checked on: 09 Dec 05 at 1405 Reference ID= FIR-1832124-0

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Originally posted by 4Money Editor:
Hi Meerustar - you just have to find the cheapest price in December for short stint in Lapland - it doesn't have to be 9th to 11th. Happy hunting!

Ahh, looks like this newbie has a lot to learn, lol.

Cheers, back to the drawing board ... or flight path

A day trip to Lapland:
Lapland Dream
If you scroll down the page you will see that Newcastle has spaces for a day trip from Sunday 18th December with a cost of £379.

Cheapest Trip to Lapland

Hi! I have found a flight from London Gatwick to Kuusamo (Lapland) that costs £119!! The dates are arriving on 18th December and coming back on the 25th December.

See the link above.

Woo!!

Wow guys, the Charterflights.co.uk is a real find! Almost tempted to whisk myself off to Lapland tomorrow!

Keep up the good work. One more day to find the deal of the week!

Andy

Best I can find is £99.00 return flight for one adult, departing Sun 18 Dec and returning Wed 21/12 all avail at that price from Bristol and Manchester,

Bristol (BRS) to Rovaniemi, Lapland £99
Per Adult
Sunday 18 December 2005 3 Nights
Date Route Flight No. Depart Arrive
Sun 18 Dec 2005 BRS to RVN n/a n/a n/a
Wed 21 Dec 2005 RVN to BRS n/a n/a n/a
Last checked on: 15 Dec 05 at 1205 Reference ID= FIR-1858250-0

or

Manchester (MAN) to Rovaniemi, Lapland £99
Per Adult
Sunday 18 December 2005 3 Nights
Date Route Flight No. Depart Arrive
Sun 18 Dec 2005 MAN to RVN n/a n/a n/a
Wed 21 Dec 2005 RVN to MAN n/a n/a n/a
Last checked on: 15 Dec 05 at 1205 Reference ID= FIR-1858250-1


both from http://www.charterflights.co.uk/sabs/search-result.php?...d=&search=Search+%BB

I can beat any price
Flight Centre will beat any price by £1 if you book through them http://www.flightcentre.co.uk
Does that mean I win?

quote:

Originally posted by moggymay:
I can beat any price
Flight Centre will beat any price by £1 if you book through them http://www.flightcentre.co.uk
Does that mean I win?

no. they only beat quotes by travel agents.

Hi folks, and thanks again for the fantastic bargain sniffing. The laurels go this week to Pumpkin for the Charter Flights find, but a special runner-up prize for Pigsypete who had a similar flight, but it got oversold, so disappeared from the radar. I'll see what I can rustle up in the goodie bag for you, P.

Look out later today for the next Challenge folks...on the best price for a Pure Evoke DAB digital radio.

And they're off! Get hunting...

excellent, what a great Xmas this will be!! Do you contact me by email for an address?

Congratulations pumpkin, and Thanks Andy too

Congrats to you too Pigsypete.........
FAO Andy C4 Editor.......do you contact us for addresses to send the prizes too??? As yet have had no email?

Cheers

Hey Pigsy and Pumpkin. You should both have received emails now.

All the best, Andy