fly in the night before or the day of?

[tink5]

Boy, did I make a big mistake! We booked our flight (before I found these boards) for the same day. I tried to change the flight for the day before but US-Air would charge us $100 per ticket which is $500!! I guess we have to hope for the best.

 

[CM_Mom]

We flew in the night before with a reservation at the Hyatt since we were scheduled to arrive in MCO at 12:30 am. Long story short...weather delays in Dallas and we finally arrived at MCO at 3:30 am. We got about 3 hours sleep before we had to get up again. Coming in late can leave you almost as tired as getting up at dark:thirty to come in the day of.

The next cruise, we're not only coming in the day before, but we're scheduling that as a vacation day and coming in at a decent time - like mid afternoon! Then a relaxing evening and off to the Magic the next morning rested and ready to enjoy our cruise.

Now if I just knew when "Next Time" was going to be.

 

[aimb]

Thank you all so much for your responses!! I'm so glad I started this thread - you all have convinced me (and more importantly, convinced DH ) to fly down the day before. I don't want to be stressed about possibly missing the boat, and we will have our 3 yr. old ds with us and would rather him be well rested the day of the cruise than tired and cranky from traveling all day.

 

[aprilgail2]

We fly in the day before and stay at the raddison. I am already taking my daughter out of school for a week so whats one more day....They have a really nice pool at the Raddison and we enjoy that the day before the cruise.

 

[samnick]

We flew in night before once and same day another time. While we didn't have any delays and arrived in plenty of time, we were all worn out from traveling and didn't really enjoy our first day as much on the ship. For that reason alone we will be going down the night before and staying at Hyatt, getting in about 4 p.m.