tjkraz
01-14-2006, 04:28 AM
It's been a rough week so I thought I'd share some good news.
Those who read the Star Wars Weekends threads may know that I was trying to work it out to make the event this year. When the SWW dates were posted earlier this week, I started looking at a couple different scenarios for airfare. The best option seemed to be a Spirit flight from Detroit to MCO. It wasn't absolutely perfect in that I'll have to leave home between 4:30 and 5am to make the plane, but the days are right, we'll be on the ground in Orlando around 10am, we can use DME for free, and the return flight doesn't leave until later in the evening.
When I first looked up this flight, it was showing a base price of $79 per person each way. Not bad! With the taxes and other fees I think it came to about $175pp round trip.
Thursday night I happened to be browsing the net and something made me look up that same flight again. To my astonishment, the same flights (both ways) that I had decided on were showing a rate of $54 each way!!!!!
Needless to say, we're now booked for a Tuesday to Friday trip in May at $128 per person round trip! Woo-hoo!
Also noteworthy is that this will be my first ever Guys' Trip. It will be me, my 5yo son and a cousin of mine (who is like a brother.) We'll all be sharing a studio somewhere--have to wait until Tuesday to figure that out.
So I'm pretty pumped. The APs will be paid for. The DDE card will still be valid. I'll have about $300 in reward dollars on our Disney Visa to cover food and souvies. DME is free. And, the airfare was absolutely dirt cheap.
It's a little bittersweet since DW won't be coming along, but she's burning all of her vacation time during our trip this February. She has been really supportive, which is great.
It will be a scant 10 weeks between Disney trips this year. I can live with that. :)
Those who read the Star Wars Weekends threads may know that I was trying to work it out to make the event this year. When the SWW dates were posted earlier this week, I started looking at a couple different scenarios for airfare. The best option seemed to be a Spirit flight from Detroit to MCO. It wasn't absolutely perfect in that I'll have to leave home between 4:30 and 5am to make the plane, but the days are right, we'll be on the ground in Orlando around 10am, we can use DME for free, and the return flight doesn't leave until later in the evening.
When I first looked up this flight, it was showing a base price of $79 per person each way. Not bad! With the taxes and other fees I think it came to about $175pp round trip.
Thursday night I happened to be browsing the net and something made me look up that same flight again. To my astonishment, the same flights (both ways) that I had decided on were showing a rate of $54 each way!!!!!
Needless to say, we're now booked for a Tuesday to Friday trip in May at $128 per person round trip! Woo-hoo!
Also noteworthy is that this will be my first ever Guys' Trip. It will be me, my 5yo son and a cousin of mine (who is like a brother.) We'll all be sharing a studio somewhere--have to wait until Tuesday to figure that out.
So I'm pretty pumped. The APs will be paid for. The DDE card will still be valid. I'll have about $300 in reward dollars on our Disney Visa to cover food and souvies. DME is free. And, the airfare was absolutely dirt cheap.
It's a little bittersweet since DW won't be coming along, but she's burning all of her vacation time during our trip this February. She has been really supportive, which is great.
It will be a scant 10 weeks between Disney trips this year. I can live with that. :)