Flights/Presidents week

[dahrjo]

Do you think we are way too late to get a resonable flight that week from Detroit to Orlando?
I am finding flights averaging at least $400 and with 5 people, I don't think I can do that. It will be over $2000 for the flights.
We are a little flexible with the days and time of travel, but I can not find anything reasonable.
Last trip we took, we paid $200 r/t each. I am willing to pay up to $300. That's what we were hoping for. We are even flexible about where we fly into.
We thought about driving, but that isn't going to work out for us.

 

[jmcross]

I'm sorry to tell you this but I don't think it's going to get any better. We usually fly out of Boston or Providence for around $200 r/t nonstop. This year for President's week I got $325 r/t with stops in Chicago from Boston. A much higher price with stops out of my way.

I have been monitoring this for months and the prices have only gone up.

Good luck in your search,

Joanne

 

[LittleStinkerbelle]

That actually doesn't sound like such a bad price to me.

I haven't flown to MCO during that week since I was a kid. The last time I flew over Presidents week we went from Newark to FLL about 4 years ago and paid $500/pp, which was actually the fully refundable full fare. The reason we did it that way was because DD was under 2 and since we were getting her a seat, they offered 50% off for her but it was only on full fare, so it came out better than any other price we could find (and we have the choice of about 4 NYC-area airports).

 

[goofystitchfan]

That is school vacation here (MA) so flights are typically expensive, which is why we don't go at that time. Good luck.

 

[dahrjo]

DS has to be there that week for band. We were going to extend the trip. I hope something reasonable comes up.

 

[JennSaint]

Not sure how flexible you can be but if you can fly for around $300 Saturday to Saturday that is a very good price for those dates. I use kayak.com. to research flights. If you could go Thurs-Thurs you would probably save some money.

 

[JennSaint]

There are flights into Tampa Sat-Sat on United for $284 per person roundtrip.

 

[Brian Noble]

President's week flights for DTW-MCO can be pretty steep. Use bing's travel search---it will give you an estimate of whether or not prices are expected to get better. Right now, it says to wait for DTW-MCO on Sat-Sat flights.

 

[dahrjo]

Has anyone flown ( or heard of ) Sun Country Air?

We can do a Sat. to Sat. but were kind of hoping for a 10 day trip. I realize we can't be too picky though.