How do you get to Hilton Head Island from far away?

[cruisehopeful]

I'm curious how people get to the Hilton Head resort from a significant distance. Coming from San Diego, all the airlines I checked have at least one stop on the way, making it a whole day to get to Savannah. I also looked at going from MCO to SAV and it was the same thing with at least 6 hours of time because of connecting flights. I noticed that driving from MCO to the resort is less than 6 hours. I didn't think to check LAX to SAV, none of the connecting flights from SAN showed LAX as a stop.

Obviously, people on that coast can drive. How does everyone else get there?

 

[hardcorestitch]

I'm curious how people get to the Hilton Head resort from a significant distance. Coming from San Diego, all the airlines I checked have at least one stop on the way, making it a whole day to get to Savannah. I also looked at going from MCO to SAV and it was the same thing with at least 6 hours of time because of connecting flights. I noticed that driving from MCO to the resort is less than 6 hours. I didn't think to check LAX to SAV, none of the connecting flights from SAN showed LAX as a stop.

Obviously, people on that coast can drive. How does everyone else get there?

Yeah you’re gonna have to connect somewhere… Savannah isn’t as big of a market as LA or Atlanta in terms of direct nonstop flights. You could preferrably go through Atlanta and then do one of two things:

-drive I-75, change over to I-16 when you hit Macon, then change to I-95 when you hit Savannah, and finally take the exit onto 218 when you enter SC
-take a connecting flight through Atlanta on Delta and continue from there to Savannah Airport

 

[Skippyboo]

Jacksonville is 2.5 hr drive versus Atlanta at 4 hrs. Atlanta is going to have more direct flights.

 

[T00dles]

Flying directly into Hilton Head Island Airport (HHH) is awesome — it’s right on the island, just minutes from the Disney resort, so you skip the drive from Savannah!

HHH has nonstop flights from several major airports, including Charlotte (CLT), Atlanta (ATL), Washington National (DCA), Philadelphia (PHL), Chicago O’Hare (ORD), New York LaGuardia (LGA), and Newark (EWR), depending on the season.

If you can connect through one of those hubs, you could land on Hilton Head itself — big time saver, and super convenient!

 

[Simba's Mom]

We connect to fly into Savannah, but then, considering where we live, we connect to fly almost anywhere. You also might consider Charleston-we used to fly into there sometimes, but last time we were there things were changing around.