Like other posters, I'm thinking about booking my flights and have a couple of questions. This is my first ABD trip, so I'm still trying to figure out all the ins and outs of how things work.
1. I know that I'm supposed to arrive no later than 1 pm on the first day of the trip. I'm flying from San Francisco to LAX and am tempted to fly SFO-LAX that morning. What happens if my flight is delayed or cancelled and I wind up getting to LAX after 1 pm? I could always fly down the day before and stay in a hotel somewhere, but I'm trying to keep costs down as much as possible -- or more accurately, I'm trying to economize as much as possible to maximize my shopping budget at Mickey's of Glendale.
2. How exhausted are folks at the end of the trip? I'm thinking of staying through the weekend after the trip, but if I'm incredibly tired, I might be better off just flying home and crashing. After Podcast Cruise 3.0, I was jealous of all the folks I met who were headed to WDW afterwards, but I was so tired that I would probably have slept through at least the first day. (As it was, I slept on the shuttle to MCO, napped in the airport, and then slept through the cross-country flight back home.)
Many thanks,
Dave