All New Atlantic Canada Thread....

[RainbowsMist]

It's been quite here in the Atlantic Canada thread this past month, with Christmas behind us it's time to start the countdown to Disney

67 days!

 

[coastgirl]

Dimples, I can't see your ticker right--when are you going? We usually prefer to save money by driving through Maine, but it's not for the faint of heart in February! ;-)

 

[Ted in Halifax]

Doing the drive to Manchester for Feb 14th ... plan to get to Bangor on the 12th and then Manchester on the 13th.

 

[Dimples1973ca]

Dimples, I can't see your ticker right--when are you going? We usually prefer to save money by driving through Maine, but it's not for the faint of heart in February! ;-)

Hey coastgirl. We are booked from August 20-27. I am trying to save some $ so we can stay longer and perhaps take a niece along. What airport would you suggest in Maine and what airline is the best bet?

Thanks.

 

[coastgirl]

Dimples, we usually go from Manchester in NH, it's not much beyond Portland Me and Southwest flies from there. We've also gotten good rates on Continental. But lots of people like JetBlue and Airtran, I think both fly from Portland ME? Southwest recently bought Airtran, so I'm hoping they might keep the Portland airport space, though that's two fairly close together for SW. Some people get good deals from Bangor, but I've not tried too hard. (We love the Manchester airport, and my dh loves road trips.)

Ted, I keep thinking I'm going to see you in the airport, but we fly on the 12th, so we're just a *shade* ahead of you. I'll try to post a highway report!

 

[Macduffy]

We flew from Bangor in 2009 and debating whether to drive the extra hours to Portland to save a couple hundred dollars. DH wants the shorter drive home (can't say I blame him). I can't seem to avoid baggage fees in Bangor however. I hate paying for my suitcase to fly!!!

 

[DisneyFreak06]

It's easier for me to fly out of Charlottetown because I'm single. I just can't get over driving so far to fly and then the coming home is just worse. It was bad enough when I drove home from the Halifax airport the second time, I nearly fell asleep at the wheel! I, personally, prefer paying more and having more time at Disney World, and then having a 5 minute drive home from the airport. A smaller airport is nice too, no getting lost at the Charlottetown airport! Who knows, when/if I get married and have children, that might change.

 

[Dimples1973ca]

We are trying to way out the options. We went last year in August had amazing price out of Halifax. ($1500 for four) If I can get flights around the same price I would gladly do Halifax instead of the drive. Here's to hoping for a better rate for August.

 

[DisneyFreak06]

We are trying to way out the options. We went last year in August had amazing price out of Halifax. ($1500 for four) If I can get flights around the same price I would gladly do Halifax instead of the drive. Here's to hoping for a better rate for August.

Wow! That is a great price! Good luck! When I went in August it was about $525 each out of Charlottetown, and we thought that was great. $1500 for the four of you! :

 

[Dimples1973ca]

Wow! That is a great price! Good luck! When I went in August it was about $525 each out of Charlottetown, and we thought that was great. $1500 for the four of you! :

Just got off Travelocity site and there are flights for under $400 per person out of Halifax the end of August. Not too bad I say. Have to convince hubby to let the niece.

 

[nibab4]

West Jet has a 72 hour seat sale. Still not as cheap as flying from US but I prefer not to have a long drive. And I factor in having to take extra time off , to me not worth it.

J

 

[Fundytrail]

Our countdown has officially started as last night the DW was talking about what she should pack for our trip

 

[dennise]

Me too, we must be going close to the same time.

 

[Honeystar120608]

Has there been any $69 seat sales out of Portland in the past year? We went in october and flew out of Manchester NH and those rates were still $100 one way I think. Maybe more. I can't quite remember. But driving from Moncton to Manchester was just way too much with the kids. we hit a deer after Saint John on the way down (again it being October and at night). Just was not fun drive.
So I am wondering, A) if you can get costs that are very cheap out of Moncton in October (Oct 1st give or take) B) if it truly is worth the money to go to POrtland. I love the shopping, but we live about a 2 min drive to the airport. Would be so nice to just hop on and off. I have yet to check out what the flights are like. Anybody fly out of Moncton, what are the lay overs like? My guess is that Continental would offer the best flights? Is that realistic?

TIA!

 

[DisneyRookie2007]

Has there been any $69 seat sales out of Portland in the past year? We went in october and flew out of Manchester NH and those rates were still $100 one way I think. Maybe more. I can't quite remember. But driving from Moncton to Manchester was just way too much with the kids. we hit a deer after Saint John on the way down (again it being October and at night). Just was not fun drive.
So I am wondering, A) if you can get costs that are very cheap out of Moncton in October (Oct 1st give or take) B) if it truly is worth the money to go to POrtland. I love the shopping, but we live about a 2 min drive to the airport. Would be so nice to just hop on and off. I have yet to check out what the flights are like. Anybody fly out of Moncton, what are the lay overs like? My guess is that Continental would offer the best flights? Is that realistic?

TIA!

I've flown from Moncton a few times and Halifax as well. Our last trip was with Continental and we flew into Newark - had probably a 2 hour layover.

A few other times we connected in Toronto - again probably a 2 hour layover.

I've not experienced a direct flight from Moncton before, but did have one through Halifax - that was sooo convenient and relaxing

 

[Applemomma]

Has there been any $69 seat sales out of Portland in the past year? We went in october and flew out of Manchester NH and those rates were still $100 one way I think. Maybe more. I can't quite remember. But driving from Moncton to Manchester was just way too much with the kids. we hit a deer after Saint John on the way down (again it being October and at night). Just was not fun drive.
So I am wondering, A) if you can get costs that are very cheap out of Moncton in October (Oct 1st give or take) B) if it truly is worth the money to go to POrtland. I love the shopping, but we live about a 2 min drive to the airport. Would be so nice to just hop on and off. I have yet to check out what the flights are like. Anybody fly out of Moncton, what are the lay overs like? My guess is that Continental would offer the best flights? Is that realistic?

TIA!

We flew out of Halifax in November with Continental for $375 taxes in. They were the best price we found. Pricing for Portland at that point was around $200 per person and that was just not significant enough savings to justify the 10 hour drive, and gas costs for three of us (I usually stay at the airport hotel regardless the night before so I figure hotel costs will be the same either way for me). However, when we got flights in 2007 for $149 each and there were four of us going it did make sense....it's a numbers game.

At this point hubby isn't really interested in going anymore and I plan on only taking one child at a time so if Continental continues to be a fairly good deal it looks like that's what I'll do! Really liked preclearing in Halifax versus the mad dash across the airport in Toronto too!

 

[dave 2]

Our 1st trip in march '08 with WJ was from Moncton with Toronto connection with 2 tickets through air miles but still cost us close to $2000 for our family of 4. Bad weather on return meant problems with our connection in TO and a 4am arrival in Moncton. Our 2nd trip we got a 149$/ticket deal during Xmas '09 so we also departed from Mctn and almost missed our connection in Montreal(bad weather and customs giving a hard time with clearance and couldn't care less)
This time we are flying direct from Halifax in March as connecting flights in the winter are just too much of a hassle. Because of the early March break in NS this year(Feb) prices were more reasonable for this time of year(550 each all in + Park' n fly at airport).

 

[rothesaydismom]

My name is Andrea and we arrive in WDW on May 29th!!! It will be the 1st time for DD(9), DS (soon to be 7) and me!!! DH has been many times so he's not as excited, but I certainly make up for him! LOL

I think I'm slowing driving everyone I know crazy about our trip ...I'm a big planner so I've created my version of a Disney planner a friend started and spend countless hours researching things about WDW. I'm not trying to plan every minute of the trip, just trying to figure out the top 4-5 things to see/do each day and then letting the rest happen based on what the kiddies want to do that day.

I can't wait to get to WDW!! I actually get teary-eyed thinking about it...when I was a kid, I never thought I'd ever get there, so it's still hard to believe that I get to finally meet Mickey in 128 sleeps!

Thanks to all of you for posting your tips & tricks about Disney! They've been a great help to me.

 

[Fundytrail]

My name is Andrea and we arrive in WDW on May 29th!!! It will be the 1st time for DD(9), DS (soon to be 7) and me!!! DH has been many times so he's not as excited, but I certainly make up for him! LOL

I think I'm slowing driving everyone I know crazy about our trip ...I'm a big planner so I've created my version of a Disney planner a friend started and spend countless hours researching things about WDW. I'm not trying to plan every minute of the trip, just trying to figure out the top 4-5 things to see/do each day and then letting the rest happen based on what the kiddies want to do that day.

I can't wait to get to WDW!! I actually get teary-eyed thinking about it...when I was a kid, I never thought I'd ever get there, so it's still hard to believe that I get to finally meet Mickey in 128 sleeps!

Thanks to all of you for posting your tips & tricks about Disney! They've been a great help to me.

Our children were 7 & 9 when we went in 1988, we found if we took an afternoon break the kids enjoyed the day far more and did not get over tired. This is easy to do if you are staying on site (Disney Resort), when the crowds grew and the kids started to get tired we would go back to the resort for a "break", when we returned later in the day the crowds were down and the kids were fresh for another round.
Don't over plan as some of our best family moments with the children were unplanned events at Disney

 

[Ted in Halifax]

My youngest two kids are 7 and 9, and as part of our planning strategy we leave some days "open", so that we can decide what to do that day, rather than having it planned out.

rule 1 - Don't stress out the wife.
rule 2 - Kid melt down violates rule 1.
rule 3 - remember rule 1.

Ted