France's cheap travel is in the regions and the advance rail fares, both of which are invisible if you plan the trip around Paris.
Italian off-season pricing is dramatic and so are the closures, and which you get depends entirely on whether you go to a city or a coast.
Lisbon flights are cheap and Lisbon accommodation no longer is, which reverses the usual advice about where to economise on a city break.
The advertised package price is built from the least desirable version of every choice, and the gap to what you will actually pay is predictable.
A Thai resort advertising 60 percent off is telling you something true and something misleading at the same time. Here is how to work out which part is which.
Cheap Tokyo fares are not found, they are caught — they surface for a few hours at a time, on predictable routes, for reasons that have nothing to do with luck.