Bonaire Airfare - EXPENSIVE

[a22shady]

Continental does NonStop Flights from (EWR -Newark NJ to Bonaire) $700 Rountrip I just checked again You have to leave on specific day's and times are not great Ideally you will arrive around 4-5AM at Bonaire and be leaving around 7am so have to plan trip around AIR but thats the Best I have seen.

 

[dolesorchard]

I shopped really hard last year and ended up buying the air plus two weeks at Buddy Dive from Continental Vacations ( $1700 each), then renting a car from AB ($219/wk) and 12 days of shore diving from Buddy's ( $280 each). This was by far the cheapest way to go. I did not look into Curacao or Aruba. Going to look into Venezuela this year with a jump from Curacao, as Portland ME or Boston to Caracas is never below $1200.

 

[TheWizard]

Just fly AA from BWI to CUR for $536 RT seven days a week and take one of the local hops over to Bonaire.
Simple...

 

[DandyDon]

Just fly AA from BWI to CUR for $536 RT seven days a week and take one of the local hops over to Bonaire.
Simple...

Dang Kayak missed those fares, or maybe I did something wrong. Actually, BWI-CUR starts at $467. Looks like CUR-BON is $100.

 

[TheWizard]

Dang Kayak missed those fares, or maybe I did something wrong. Actually, BWI-CUR starts at $467. Looks like CUR-BON is $100.

Kayak doesn't seem to "know" about the 3 or 4 small connecting airlines between CUR & BON, with partial exception of Insel.

 

[DandyDon]

Kayak doesn't seem to "know" about the 3 or 4 small connecting airlines between CUR & BON, with partial exception of Insel.

It's a good site generally, but always good to double check on Matrix. I just hadn't looked into CUR - thanks.

 

[DeputyDan]

Our usual treck to Bonaire is AA to Curacao and the Divi Divi to Bonaire.

Can take any day of the week.

Divi Divi does not fly after dark and has luggage restrictions. We don't worry about the restrictions and have never been called on them.
It entirely depends on how many are on that flight.

DD

 

[sammy631000]

For a Toronto, Canada start...best savings August travel seems to be..

drive the 2 hours to Buffalo, NY
take a charter Buffalo to Aruba RT (cheapest $425) or Curacao RT
use an Island Hopper e.g. Insel or Divi Divi with Aruba to Bonaire RT $200, or Curacao $100. Note that this may require an overnight in Aruba inbound only.

The $500 savings over Toronto to Bonaire RT is substantial. Lose paying an overnight in Aruba but still ahead $400. But this is relative since biggest savings is really the tax differential between Toronto and Buffalo airports. If I can swing the time extend vacation earlier and spend 5 nights Aruba, 3 day scuba pkg...then do my 2 weeks in Bonaire (as in spend the savings and dive some Aruba wrecks .

 

[lmorin]

One contributor to the higher airfares is the $35 Bonaire departure tax. It is now included in the purchase price for some airline tickets. We just returned via Delta and were pleasantly surprised when the Delta check-in employee handed us vouchers indicating that the departure tax had been paid to Delta as part of the ticket prices.

 

[phelana]

I find air to Curacao is cheaper on AA. Delta is absurd...CO is next best for pricing. Kayak does pricing as well as does Yapta. AA has a sale right now! I also find fares change all the time. For instance I held a ticket on AA yesterday and it went down in price today.