anricat
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- Feb 20, 2014
I'm trying to figure out my best travel/hotel option for our trip to Universal in June. Currently I have Royal Pacific booked for Thursday June 1-Sunday June 4 with my intention to spend the evening of June 1, and then full days Friday June 2 and Saturday June 3 at the parks.
I've been keeping my eye on the Southwest airfare (I have points to use) and it's $196/person (well, the corresponding number of points) for the June 1 morning flight, which is out of my budget. There's a Wednesday evening flight, getting in late (10:35 PM) for $126 which is way way better. Saving $70 a person (family of three) would be great, but then I'm faced with another hotel stay and a late night (not such an issue for me and DH, but I want DD age 8 starting her vacation off right).
So then I thought maybe we could just roll into the Hyatt MCO for the night on Wednesday, but it's like $$$ and pretty much negates all those savings. Staying another night at RPR does the same. So then I'm thinking maybe another hotel - something close to the airport? Maybe something close Universal, like the Holiday Inn across the street and then move over in the morning? But then, by the time we get to the resort after a 10:35 PM flight, it's going to be like midnight or something (we're coming from central time so that's more like 11 PM, but still...) I guess we can sleep in, but sheesh.
Man, I'm so torn. Anyone have any thoughts on this one? I've been waiting to see if it will drop and every Tuesday I get alert for SWA sales and it's just not dropping (actually, it went up - it was $158). I'm worried with the popularity of summer travel, I'm not going to see it go down.
I've been keeping my eye on the Southwest airfare (I have points to use) and it's $196/person (well, the corresponding number of points) for the June 1 morning flight, which is out of my budget. There's a Wednesday evening flight, getting in late (10:35 PM) for $126 which is way way better. Saving $70 a person (family of three) would be great, but then I'm faced with another hotel stay and a late night (not such an issue for me and DH, but I want DD age 8 starting her vacation off right).
So then I thought maybe we could just roll into the Hyatt MCO for the night on Wednesday, but it's like $$$ and pretty much negates all those savings. Staying another night at RPR does the same. So then I'm thinking maybe another hotel - something close to the airport? Maybe something close Universal, like the Holiday Inn across the street and then move over in the morning? But then, by the time we get to the resort after a 10:35 PM flight, it's going to be like midnight or something (we're coming from central time so that's more like 11 PM, but still...) I guess we can sleep in, but sheesh.
Man, I'm so torn. Anyone have any thoughts on this one? I've been waiting to see if it will drop and every Tuesday I get alert for SWA sales and it's just not dropping (actually, it went up - it was $158). I'm worried with the popularity of summer travel, I'm not going to see it go down.