January Trip - Fly or Drive

[wed100105]

I was just wondering your thoughts, Disfriends.

We just got a trade with RCI for Bay Lake Tower, January 27, through February 3. February 3 is my daughter's fifth birthday. Yippee!

We are owners at Wyndham Bonnet Creek and could easily add days before our trade or after. I'm taking the year off of work to stay home with the kids and DH is military. We live in Central IL.

We like to fly nonstop out of Bloomington to Sanford (Allegiant) or MCO (Frontier) or from Peoria to Tampa (Allegiant). Flights haven't been released for those dates yet. Typically, Allegiant flies Sunday and Thursday out of Bloomington and Frontier flies Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and the occasional Sunday.

Given the weather situation and these carriers do you just decide to drive it? We'd rent a car as not to put that many miles on our cars and to have roadside assistance if anything happened.

I'm sure once flight info comes out it will be easier to decide. I just wanted to know your thoughts.

 

[DonnaL]

We've gone to WDW for years in January from PA (usually earlier in the month though) and have flown all trips but one (our youngest son was going to be working in the WDW College Program for spring semester and wanted his car with him....so we drove down with him and flew home several days later). We've been very fortunate that we haven't had any major weather delays or cancellations (sometimes a few hours here or there). We also drive either one or two hours to/from the airport here in PA...depending if we fly from ABE or PHL. Coming from IL, I would think I'd be more concerned about making the drive since you have such a wide area which could be very snow or ice prone in late January/early February...you could be OK for a portion of your drive and then hit a major storm or vice versa. I'd wait until flights are announced, and compare pricing before making a decision. I always find I get the best price on flights about 2 1/2 months out for our early January trips.....I don't think I've ever booked flights before the first week of October. Also.......not sure what Allegiant policy is re weather cancellation due to weather.......you might want to check that out.......given the fact they only fly a few days a week......could be a huge issue rebooking if there is a cancellation due to weather.