{"id":30339,"date":"2014-10-02T11:25:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T16:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/?p=30339"},"modified":"2016-12-14T18:45:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T00:45:58","slug":"holiday-travel-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/holiday-travel-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday travel: The 3 absolute best days to book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picking the right holiday gift is hard. Picking the right day to book holiday travel? Impossible. Or it was, until we crunched all the numbers for the ultimate best days to book <a title=\"Orbitz holiday travel calendar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/psi?force=hotel\/oliday-travel\/?WT.tsrc=orbitzBlog&amp;GCID=78142\" target=\"_blank\">calendar<\/a> that tells you exactly when to get the best flight deals to go home (or anywhere) for the holidays. Our tip to you: Get on it. Whether you&#8217;re traveling for Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year&#8217;s, all the best deal-booking dates are coming up <em>extremely<\/em> soon!<\/p>\n<p>Click to view full sized image.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ORB_HolidayTravel_Calendars_img_960x880_20140926.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ORB_HolidayTravel_Calendars_img_960x880_20140926.gif\" alt=\"ORB_HolidayTravel_Calendars_img_960x880_20140926\" width=\"960\" height=\"880\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Plus, save even more on your next hotel stay when you use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/psi?force=travel-deals\/&amp;GCID=78142\" target=\"_blank\">promo code HOLIDAY<\/a>, good for 10% off hotels on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/psi?force=blog\/&amp;GCID=78142\" target=\"_blank\">Orbitz.com<\/a>. Book by December 31, 2014 for travel through March 31, 2015.<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.newscred.com\/px.gif?key=YXJ0aWNsZT03ZDE5YzJmNDY0Yzk0ODQ2NzFhMGM1NjQ3OGNjY2ZhYg==\" alt=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" class=\"nc_pixel\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We tell you exactly when to buy your tickets for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":30346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1704],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holiday-vacations-christmas-travel-ideas"],"acf":{"api_active":null,"api_title":null,"api_excerpt":null,"api_featured_image":null,"api_lob":null},"posts_api_cpm_point":"","yoast_head":"<!-- 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