I can't make any promises about the cost, but I like to use www.kayak.com as it compares all of the sites and gives you the best fare. It even provides a link directly to the site that has the lowest fares.

Hope this helps.

Rhett

I'm trying to remember how I found ours... Maybe Kayak or Sidestep? I do remember that whichever one it was, they made me sign in to have "multi-city" choices. Continental had the lowest costs for us from Chicago, and, as you suggested the cost priced out the same whether we used the same airport or not so we are going into Dublin and leaving from Shannon.

As an experiment, I just ran a Mutli-City through Orbitz (using May dates) and came out with a phenomenal fare on US Airways ($396!!) from San Diego to Dublin and returning from Shannon 2 weeks later. I'm thinking US Airways must be having a big sale right now because the other numbers were over $700, so you might want to check their web site directly. I'm sure results will vary by dates (I think mid-week flights are usually lower) but it's a place to start.

Thank you Photobug and Michele,

I am going to check on those US Airways flights. $396 is a great price. I hope I find it!

I have heard about deleting cookies. I will try that also.

Thanks again,
Erin

Though I often use travel consolidators such as Orbitz & AirGorilla for travel within the United States & Canada, I find that most of the time, when booking international flights, it is cheaper to go through the airline site directly.

For example, I checked Orbitz, Expedia, Kayak & AirGorilla for airfares, open jawed, into Dublin & out of Shannon for early May. Then, hearing of a deal on Continental, I checked Continental's site. I wound up booking through Continental at an unbelievable rate out of Phoenix into Dublin and departing Shannon back to Phoenix.

A lot will depend on your dates, with some airlines, as their specials run out at the end of May. Usingthe Continental.com site,  I am showing a RT fare of $763.50 per person, taxes & fees included, from  San Diego to Dublin & returning through Shannon. I used the dates of May 22 & June 7.

Using those same dates and the USairways.com site, I found RT air, taxes & fees included, for $593.50 per person.

Now for a good laugh, I saw SD & immediately checked flights in and out of Rapid City, South Dakota. It didn't occur to me that you meant San Diego. 

Slan Beo,

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Keany,

Try Yapta.com it is an amzing site for air fare searches.

Good luck.

PenniPoo

Thanks to all who responded.

I was not able to find the $396 price. We booked with AA and got RT for $610. That's the best I could find for the last week of May/first week of June.

We will have two weeks and plan to see the southern half of the island. We visited the northern half in 2006 and loved it. We really want to go back to Donegal, but will save that for another trip.

Places we are thinking of see: Dingle, Cork, the Burren. Also want to play some golf, but at courses that won't break the bank. I'm thinking also of returning to North Leitrim, where my grandmother was born, but that may have to wait for the next trip too.

I'll post again when we get a tentative plan.

Thanks again,
Erin

Michele,

Thanks for the website. And I would really appreciate special offers for golf. I've run across some courses that we could afford. We are really not interested in paying hundreds of dollars - especially considering what a bad golfer I am.

I am also trying to figure out what size car to rent that will accomodate our clubs. We considered renting, but I really can't play with full size rentals. That means we will have to lug the clubs around. Sounds like fun, huh?

Lots of planning still.

Thanks for your help.

Erin