SSR Lovers and/or Owners Thread!

[DutchsMommy]

Just booked our first trip 'home'. DS and I will be travelling to SSR May 17-21. MS was very helpful as it was my first call.

Now all I have to do is book my flights and start planning our park days - gawd I love this!

Flight booked, DME booked.
Waitlisted for BWV just in case (DS can't get over the appeal of the slide there LOL) but I am looking forward to SSR.

Now I can look in to park day planning, grocery order and AP vs. MYW.

Then I just have to fill time for 2 months until we can go. Better get a ticker going - the DIS police are going to make me remove a pic from my siggie and I wanna keep them all LOL.

 

[Ariel8676]

Woohoo...just wanted to update, just booked airfare.. $117 per person.!!!!!!!

 

[edk35]

Woohoo...just wanted to update, just booked airfare.. $117 per person.!!!!!!!

Congrats....we got 79 each way but am hoping to get a lower ding fare from SW before then.

 

[CinderellasSister]

Congrats....we got 79 each way but am hoping to get a lower ding fare from SW before then.

Can you change your tickets with Southwest once they're booked??? I didn't know that!!! How do you do it??

 

[edk35]

Can you change your tickets with Southwest once they're booked??? I didn't know that!!! How do you do it??

You sure can. I always book SW as two one way tickets. That way if there is a ding fare or it just goes down....you go into their on line site....travel center and enter some info. and you can get a credit for one of the "one ways" and apply that to the other "way" so you get the credit applied to one of the one ways and the fare goes down. Then the other one way gives you a credit to use on a future flight...usually one year from when you originally made the ressie. Now.....I got lucky twice for our Jan. trip. I got a lower fare then I got a ding. So I went from 79 one way to 40 one way and 59 on the other. Hope this made sense. LOL

 

[jgus]

Which airline has $117? The best we could do from Detroit was $197 for April 15-20th.

It's our first DVC trip. We are new members. We bought SSR without seeing any of the resorts. Hopefully we made a good decision!!!

 

[MAGICFOR2]

Okay, not to be but I figure that the SSR owners would be the best to ask. Does anyone know how early the bus leaves for AK? We have 8am Breakfastsaurus ressies, and all of a sudden I was wondering how we will get there?

 

[CinderellasSister]

You sure can. I always book SW as two one way tickets. That way if there is a ding fare or it just goes down....you go into their on line site....travel center and enter some info. and you can get a credit for one of the "one ways" and apply that to the other "way" so you get the credit applied to one of the one ways and the fare goes down. Then the other one way gives you a credit to use on a future flight...usually one year from when you originally made the ressie. Now.....I got lucky twice for our Jan. trip. I got a lower fare then I got a ding. So I went from 79 one way to 40 one way and 59 on the other. Hope this made sense. LOL

Wow! I never knew! Thank you!! And to think that it was shear dumb luck that I did happen to buy 2 one way tickets instead of round trip! When Southwest was only booking until May 10, it forced me to buy one way down, then wait until they extended it so I could get my return flight on the 13th! And I had stopped checking their fares! I'll have to go back to watching it now. Awesome! Thank you.

 

[conciergekelly]

Which airline has $117? The best we could do from Detroit was $197 for April 15-20th.

It's our first DVC trip. We are new members. We bought SSR without seeing any of the resorts. Hopefully we made a good decision!!!

Spirit has non stop and great sales from Detroit. Infact right now there is a 1 cent sale to Tampa in March and April. (Hurry)This is my main airline. I have always-had pretty good service and reasonable prices.

I also signed up for the Travelocity Fare watcher which tells me when there is a deal. I have to be flexible though. Right now it says that fares are 103.00-163.00. But I find it to be a bait and switch thing. But sometimes I get lucky.

Also you can check other airports. I have gone out of Flint before. It may be a bit further for you than me . I am in South Lyon. It is a small airport and it has nonstop flights from Air Tran and Northwest. Also Tampa isn't that much further than Orlando so you can check return flights there.

The cheapest I have paid at any time was 123.00 w/tax. Detroit to Orlando, Spirt. The most expensive was Northwest 400.00w/tax at Chrismas.

All of that being said 197.00 isn't too bad.

Yes, you did make a great decision. DVC is the best! You will have many happy trips. Welcome Home!

 

[corinnak]

Okay, not to be but I figure that the SSR owners would be the best to ask. Does anyone know how early the bus leaves for AK? We have 8am Breakfastsaurus ressies, and all of a sudden I was wondering how we will get there?

Well, I guess it is maybe a little OT, but if I were you, I would be out at the bus stop by 7am. The busses start around that time, but it's impossible to know exactly when the AK bus will arrive. You will likely be early, but that is better than being late. Have fun!

 

[Fitswimmer]

I'm getting all excited for my next trip home after reading this!! We're doing a VB/SSR split from May 13-19th. 3 nights at the beach and 3 nights at SSR. We went on two short visits in November and December too and fell in LOVE with our new home!!

I've already got the December trip booked for 2007-we're going to stay longer this time from 12/16-12/21. That should be a cool trip!

 

[Starr W.]

Spirit has non stop and great sales from Detroit. Infact right now there is a 1 cent sale to Tampa in March and April. (Hurry)This is my main airline. I have always-had pretty good service and reasonable prices.

I also signed up for the Travelocity Fare watcher which tells me when there is a deal. I have to be flexible though. Right now it says that fares are 103.00-163.00. But I find it to be a bait and switch thing. But sometimes I get lucky.

Also you can check other airports. I have gone out of Flint before. It may be a bit further for you than me . I am in South Lyon. It is a small airport and it has nonstop flights from Air Tran and Northwest. Also Tampa isn't that much further than Orlando so you can check return flights there.

The cheapest I have paid at any time was 123.00 w/tax. Detroit to Orlando, Spirt. The most expensive was Northwest 400.00w/tax at Chrismas.

All of that being said 197.00 isn't too bad.

Yes, you did make a great decision. DVC is the best! You will have many happy trips. Welcome Home!

We live outside of Toledo and fly out of Metro. I figure any fare I get under $200 with taxes is to the plus side. Though flying around any of the holidays you're going to be pushing that $400 mark easily, if not more.

 

[conciergekelly]

I'm getting all excited for my next trip home after reading this!! We're doing a VB/SSR split from May 13-19th. 3 nights at the beach and 3 nights at SSR. We went on two short visits in November and December too and fell in LOVE with our new home!!

I've already got the December trip booked for 2007-we're going to stay longer this time from 12/16-12/21. That should be a cool trip!

Sounds like a great trip. The best of both worlds, a little bit of and and a little bit of . Make sure you come and tell us how much fun you had!

 

[conciergekelly]

We live outside of Toledo and fly out of Metro. I figure any fare I get under $200 with taxes is to the plus side. Though flying around any of the holidays you're going to be pushing that $400 mark easily, if not more.

I have gone out of Toledo too. It is only 1 hr. away from me. I prefer the smaller airports but take whatever is cheapest which is usually metro.

 

[Starr W.]

I have gone out of Toledo too. It is only 1 hr. away from me. I prefer the smaller airports but take whatever is cheapest which is usually metro.

Have you ever tried Allegiant out of Toledo? I look but they never fly on the days we are leaving(cheap, but you end up at Sanford so no DME) and DH is 6'4" and the leg room is tight. Might work for a trips when we rent a car.

I hated travelling out of Toledo on business, if a flight is delayed or cancelled you are pretty much SOL(it happened to me more than once) so I preferred DTW as you can usually get back to there without any problems. Plus the prices are usually better. Mayor rails on business leaders to fly out of Toledo, but he uses Detroit on official & leisure travel.


I know

Can't wait until our next trip 59 days, kick ourselves for not going for SB after this winter.

 

[bpmorley]

We live outside of Toledo and fly out of Metro. I figure any fare I get under $200 with taxes is to the plus side. Though flying around any of the holidays you're going to be pushing that $400 mark easily, if not more.

That's about our limit out of Philly. $200 or less per person

 

[MAGICFOR2]

Well, I guess it is maybe a little OT, but if I were you, I would be out at the bus stop by 7am. The busses start around that time, but it's impossible to know exactly when the AK bus will arrive. You will likely be early, but that is better than being late. Have fun!

Thanks! I wasn't sure if the buses would go that early.

 

[loribell]

Okay, not to be but I figure that the SSR owners would be the best to ask. Does anyone know how early the bus leaves for AK? We have 8am Breakfastsaurus ressies, and all of a sudden I was wondering how we will get there?

Tammie I would check with the front desk CM's as to when the buses are scheduled to start running that morning to be sure what to expect. I have always heard that they start running by 7:20 for sure. If that is the case then you will have plenty of time to make it to the park on time.

Have fun! Donald's is one of our favorite breakfasts.

Lori

 

[conciergekelly]

Star w.... I haven't flown with Allegiant. I can't remember what airline I used. We went a couple times with some friends who live in Toledo. They made the arrangements so I don't remember.

 

[pennst8r]

Had to chime in since we just (last week, and yesterday!) bought SSR and AKV! I am so excited--we'll take our first trip "home" in October.

Now, I'm going to try to figure out how to get the avatars for my sig....