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Best Fares: Thrift transportation by sea is a far more complicated subject than is such transportation by air and careful consultation with your travel agent; is almost a necessity. Plane best fares across the Atlantic are nearly uniform | —those of Icelandic Airlines are a thrift exception—but ship best fares are i decidedly not uniform. Also, there are three classes, first, cabin and tourist, as against two, ordinarily, by air.Economy Touring and Lodging You can do a lot for a little in Finland if you are the hardy type, and in a clean, well-ordered land like this it is not too rigorous a job to be thrifty. Rail traffic, in third class, costs not much over a cent a mile for long distances, and inland steamer tariffs are extremely moderate. Furthermore, the Finnish State Railways offer a surprising choice of 42 circular tours— 25 of them mapped out in an official booklet—at 20 per cent below standard best fares, available from May 1 to Sept. 30; and in the off-season they offer general tariff reductions of 25 to 50 per cent on return best fares.
Steamship lines distinguish sharply, in their seasonal best fares (which they call high season and low season) between eastbound sailings and westbound. The high season eastbound is usually from May 1 (some lines April 15) to July 31 (or August 15); westbound from July 15 to October 15. best fares are, of course, lower in the low season but the difference is much less than the difference in air tariffs. On sea trips it seems to average no more than 10 per cent, if that. The steamship companies have to figure that the cost of a passenger's meals for five to ten days (not merely one or two meals, as in plane crossings) is about the same at all seasons. In a round-trip fare they must figure meals for a big ten to twenty days. |
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