All New Atlantic Canada Thread....

[Fundytrail]

Leaving in just over a week and finally books a rental (SUV) but prices for rental cars have been crazy high this year

Thought I would give anyone not aware that you can use the Costco.com US site and it will accept your Canadian Costco card number, we used this site to get our best rate for renting a SUV for 14 day ($529 including tax & etc), with a MCO pick-up. Had I used the Canadian Costco site for the same SUV it was $780.

 

[DVCALMA]

Hello, One time we flew in to mco and had a car from Alamo to go to Vero Beach for a week. We were coming to wdw for a week after. It was $90 cheaper to turn the car in at the Alamo outlet at the Disney car care center than at the airport. I rented for one day there also and I paid for a small cheap car and got a free upgrade to a bmw with 3000 miles on it. They pick you up and drop you off at your Disney resort. That outlet might be worth consideration. Enjoy the trip

 

[momdad4kids]

A few questions:

1. How is the crowds and weather in mid-end July at Disney??
2. Has anyone driven from Halifax area? if so how was it??


1. We usually go in March but did go one yr in Sept and it was very hot and humid, not unbearable and free dinning made up for it.

2. We've done the drive several times from NB and its about 28 hrs of driving from Houlton Maine. If you cross the border at Calais it would save about an hr or so off that. Google maps is almost bang on for driving time and allows for stops for food and fuel as well. We normally break it into 2 days of travel to get us into Florida then use the 3rd day to get into Orlando. Hershey Pa. is a nice break and you can stock up on chocolate to help keep you nourished the rest of they way,lol. There are 6 ppl in our family, 4 of whom love to shop and there's tons of outlet shopping throughout the states. I have few different routes depending on how much traffic you care to travel in, if you want I can pass those along as well.

 

[Fundytrail]

Not looking good for our 6 AM flight on March 27th :-(

40+ centimetres of snow

 

[Ted in Halifax]

Fundytrail ... did you make it out? I see United is still flying, but no one else.

 

[DVCALMA]

well with todays storm and one possible on sunday we are waving the white flag. hard to believe but last night we got 2 aeroplan seats to mco on saturday returning on thursday next week for normal amount of points 25,000 each. there were quite a few options actually. even got 3 of the 5 nights at SS. have to buy the other 2. quick trip but weather looks much better than here. grateful for aerpolan and DVC.

 

[Ted in Halifax]

From what I see out there ... get out while you can!

 

[DisneyFreak06]

well with todays storm and one possible on sunday we are waving the white flag. hard to believe but last night we got 2 aeroplan seats to mco on saturday returning on thursday next week for normal amount of points 25,000 each. there were quite a few options actually. even got 3 of the 5 nights at SS. have to buy the other 2. quick trip but weather looks much better than here. grateful for aerpolan and DVC.

Have a great trip! I'm so jealous!

 

[Fundytrail]

Fundytrail ... did you make it out? I see United is still flying, but no one else.

Yep we made it out and arrived at the resort around 4 pm.

 

[Ted in Halifax]

Fundytrail, that is amazing that you made it out. I booked my 2015 trip. Jan 17th to Feb 2nd. 4 people on United for $1,629 cdn .... not bad!

 

[dis_guy]

Fundytrail, that is amazing that you made it out. I booked my 2015 trip. Jan 17th to Feb 2nd. 4 people on United for $1,629 cdn .... not bad!

Good score, Ted! Where are you flying from?

 

[Ted in Halifax]

Halifax, via United.

 

[dis_guy]

That is a good price. We usually fly United out of Edmonton. They invariably have the best prices here, too. I'm hoping our luck continues when our proposed dates at the end of March 2015 open up.

 

[Ted in Halifax]

$408 a person here is now a good price, plus I have elite status, so no bag fees.

I've been trying to use my westjet companion fare plus my westjet reward money, but prices are in the mid $600 to high $700 per person. I'm getting to a point where I'm concerned I can ever use these on westjet.

 

[Honeystar120608]

$408 a person here is now a good price, plus I have elite status, so no bag fees.

I've been trying to use my westjet companion fare plus my westjet reward money, but prices are in the mid $600 to high $700 per person. I'm getting to a point where I'm concerned I can ever use these on westjet.

Great deal! I managed to get a deal back last August, 4 seats for $1483 CA. The lowest I've seen thus far, and it was for travel in October. With free dining, that made our decision to go easy. (Flying out of Moncton)

This year we are waiting it out, seeing what transpires for October this year. It's our 10 yr anniversary and we REALLY want to go, but are on a tight budget. We want to surprise the kids too

 

[dis_guy]

$408 a person here is now a good price, plus I have elite status, so no bag fees.

I've been trying to use my westjet companion fare plus my westjet reward money, but prices are in the mid $600 to high $700 per person. I'm getting to a point where I'm concerned I can ever use these on westjet.

We got $445 pp for our recent March break trip. Prices from YEG are looking a bit higher for 2015 so far but we won't even see our dates until early May.

I hear ya! I have a ton of Aeroplan points and they are near impossible to use when we can go anywhere. Europe seems much easier to book so I may hold onto them until we decide to back there.

Great deal! I managed to get a deal back last August, 4 seats for $1483 CA. The lowest I've seen thus far, and it was for travel in October. With free dining, that made our decision to go easy. (Flying out of Moncton)

This year we are waiting it out, seeing what transpires for October this year. It's our 10 yr anniversary and we REALLY want to go, but are on a tight budget. We want to surprise the kids too

I think everyone is being pretty careful with their money these days. I know we were way more purposeful and circumspect in our spending on our trip last week. I'm already scrutinizing everything thinking of ways to maximize our vacation fund.

 

[Dimples1973ca]

I was able to book 4 seats for $1620. $405 pp was a pretty decent rate out of Halifax so I jumped on it. Times were decent and fly home on Saturday evening. We were OK with paying $500 pp so the savings will give us a few extras.

 

[Fundytrail]

Fundytrail, that is amazing that you made it out. I booked my 2015 trip. Jan 17th to Feb 2nd. 4 people on United for $1,629 cdn .... not bad!

WOW! Great price

 

[Disney_Mama]

Heading to OKW end of August for a girls only trip. Just me and my two DD's. Thinking about driving down unless I get a really, really good deal. Fun to have the car there. Then we could do some day trips to the beach or Kennedy Space Centre. Maybe even get to Universal for Harry Potter.

 

[CaperTiff]

Hi everyone ! I haven't been on the boards in a while, not posting anyway. Always lurking. We just moved home from Alberta in December and planning a girls trip to WDW for DD 6 th birthday in sept .Hoping for free dining and decent cost flights out of Halifax since the ones out of Sydney are rediculous times. I'm also a travel agent so I'm even more so obsessive with checking prices on my disney agent page.