Skellingtonj
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I've got to say that is one seriously planned road trip.
My bladder would never allow for any kind of schedule LOL
Same but that is impressive.
I've got to say that is one seriously planned road trip.
My bladder would never allow for any kind of schedule LOL
I get it. But look at what I quoted. Poster said "driving time is really only one day. Not 4 days total." I'll buy that the round trip is 3 days looking just at hours, but I know after our 12 hour drive, the last thing I would want to do is go another six the next day (and then go into a park for six hours? )I think you have to look at the net. Figure on 3-4 days total driving, and 1 day total flying (1/2 day in each direction). So, the “cost” of driving is 2-3 days, depending on how hard you are willing to push on day 1 in each direction.
This is what I was thinking, 4 days of vacation to spend in the car? Not my idea of fun. Maybe if you're getting tons of vacation time--like 4 or more weeks per year.If you have limited time, I'd fly. You lose almost two full days with the drive each way.
I get it. But look at what I quoted. Poster said "driving time is really only one day. Not 4 days total." I'll buy that the round trip is 3 days looking just at hours, but I know after our 12 hour drive, the last thing I would want to do is go another six the next day (and then go into a park for six hours? )
Yikes, that's a rough one. Normally I'm totally in the boat of just fly if it's more than like 10 hrs and/or if you have limited time but with 800/person...ouch.I'm trying to convince my DW the savings we would get if we drove to FL this April break instead of flying. Just wanted to see what other folks would do in my case. We are traveling from CT to Orlando.
Right now we have enough points to book a hotel for the way down and the way back so there is no cost for that. Figuring fuel will be about $225 for the whole trip and since we are well under our mileage on our car lease which is up in May I figure it is a good way to use miles we have technically paid for. Also, budgeting about $200 for food on the road. Not sure if I should budget that though as we leave on a Friday and me and the DW buy lunch at work anyway and typically go out to dinner on Fridays with the family. Saturday breakfast is included in the hotel stay and we will be in Orlando at lunch time anyway. Lastly, flights are running about $800 pp round trip and there are 4 of us.
The way I see it is we are saving a bundle other than time. Just wanted other folks thoughts in case I am missing something. Hopefully I can get my DW on board with this.
Thanks
Oh, I agree. Let's say you have a two hour flight. Add getting to the airport two hours ahead (ok, 90 minutes), 30 minute drive to the airport, then 30 minutes from plane to rental car/transportation, then 30 minutes to WDW. It's still 5 hours of travelling. If you have a layover, add some more time to that. For us, our 12 hour drive would be cut to 6 hours. Saving 6 hours wouldn't be worth $800/ticket to me. It's ~$200 though.Example, we recently flew to Denver. It’s a 14-hour drive or a 2-hour flight. But, that 2-hour flight actually chewed up a total of 7 hours door to door, and that’s without delays. And we were feeling pretty much the same at that point as we would have had we just finished 7 hours of driving.
Wow! Now that is organization to have all the stops mapped out. As for the hotel do most people make reservation before you start the trip or wait until the day of? Even as a kid my parents wouldn't make the hotel reservation until the day of because they wanted to be flexible with how far they drive. Every year growing up at Christmas and summer we would drive to KY from New England with 3 kids and 3 dogs. Lol Usually we were able to find a room when waiting to make reservation until the day of. As for cooler we would fill it with bottle water, soda, snack food cheese and crackers, cookies.
Long Island here, and we always fly. 2 hours on a plane beats 24+ in a car.