Redeye booked through Disney?

[Jrsy Boy]

Just wondering if anyone has booked airfare through Disney and selected the "redeye" option. Our non-redeye flight left at 6:15am and, believe me, my eyes were still red. Has anyone been booked on an overnight?

 

[Olallamom]

I have our family booked on a red eye, we are from the west coast. I look at this way either we are shot from no sleep and don't do much the first day or you take a flight that has you flying all day and you waste the first day on the plane. Either way it's a toss up. I think chances are that we will be ok and will either sit by the pool on arrival day or have enough energy to do the parks. Time will tell. We leave on Monday night.

 

[Jrsy Boy]

So what time is your flight and what time do you get in?

 

[Olallamom]

We leave Seattle @ 11:30pm and arrive at Orlando at 9:47 am. We are flying with American and will connect in Dallas with about an hour lay over.

 

[Jrsy Boy]

I could probably do that w/o too much trouble. I wonder if they would even bother doing a redeye from Denver...

 

[Uncle Buck]

Ollala Mom: we take a red-eye from Seattle everytime. Once connecting in Minneapolis and twice on Alaska non-stops. On the 26th we're doing it again, only connecting in Dulles on Inependence. Even without sleeping (some passenger is always snoring, watching a movie too loud, or has smelly feet ), we always find that once we get through the airport, we have ample energy to make a full day of it in the parks - even with little ones.

 

[Olallamom]

UncleBuck: Glad to hear that you have good experiences on the red eye. We have only done a red eye as a family one time, it was a little scary. We are all a little older now and I plan on doing tylenol PM so that I will rest some.

 

[dizplanner]

Jrsy Boy
When are you going? I'm looking for flight from Denver for next March and wondering how long to wait before booking. The best rate for my dates and preferred times is over $300 (up from $252 in the last week or so) for a flight with a stop and $433 for a direct flight. I'd really like to get a direct flight for $250, but I don't know if it going to happen or if I should just bite the bullet and book (and regret I didn't do it a couple of weeks ago and save $200). I was thinking of waiting until August or September, but the recent price jumps have made me nervous.

I also have family coming from Oregon - they live in Eugene and would prefer to fly out of there, but are willing to fly from Portland. Any suggestions for them? Their airfare is even higher (over $400 per person - they will have five people). (Although the ironic thing is the cheapest flight for them is on Frontier connecting through Denver - their flight is $50 cheaper than for us on the same flights from Denver to Orlando).

 

[Jrsy Boy]

Actually, we just got back. We booked everything through Disney, but didn't elect for the redeye flight option. We ended up flying out of Denver at 6:15am, so we wondered how much of a difference booking a redeye flight would be.
Sorry, can't really help you with current airfare deals.

 

[LeftCoaster]

I did a red eye recently from LAX to MCO on Song. I slept a little bit under 3 hours total on the flight. I left LAX at 10:30pm and arrive at MCO at 6 AM. I arrived and was checked in to my resort by 7:30 am and was in bed by 8 am. I took a nap for a couple of hours and was ready for an almost full day at the parks. I'll definately do it again.

 

[daisy2]

My husband and I took the redeye from Santa maria CA to Los Angelas to Florida and and needless to say we ended up on a plane a full plane with pop warner football players and the plane was very hot inside the plane. Can you say no sleep!!! So we got into Orlando around 6:00 am and got to All-Star movies and they did not have a room available which we knew they wouldnt. So we ate breakfast and headed out to MK and stayed for the day we were so tired we went into the Hall of presidents in Liberty Square and we tried to watch the presentation and both of us were so tired we fell asleep. It was nice cool and it did not take long. LOL we were exhausted so we headed back to the room they had it ready and slept the rest of the night. I am not saying that all redeye flights are like the one we took but we are going taking a early flight this time in October.