What's the Shortest Trip you have Planned that involves Flights?

[china mom]

A couple of year ago, my DS asked me if we could go to Hershey Park - a two hour drive from our Maryland home. I calculated gas, food costs (HP won't allow outside food), hotel and park tickets and realized that it would cost myself and two kids $400 for the weekend.

I talked him onto flying to Disney instead for a day at Blizzard Beach. $8 parking at airport, free flight as family of an airline employee, $89 per night x 2 nights at Pop, Bring own breakfast, lunch and snacks, $20 for dinner. $214 for a day at Blizzard Beach. Yaaay premium annual passes.

So, my shortest trip to WDW was one day/two nights.

 

[Iowajes]

Depends how cheap the flights are!

Right now, I won't fly for less than a week- but flights are insane.

 

[luvmy2babies]

Just booked for December, arriving 12/4 and leaving 12/6. Had a Southwest airlines credit I was going to use in January. Just couldn't stop thinking about never seeing the Osborne Lights again though.

Found a good deal on a one-way rental so picking the kids up from school early on the 3rd for a surprise trip. Driving as far as I can before bed time. We live in NC so I expect to be in Florida when we stop.

Dropping the car at Orlando International around noon on the 4th and heading to Pop Century. MVMCP on the 4th. DHS on the 5th. Back home on an 11am flight on 12/6.

 

[Sherrkel]

Well, the shortest trip planned to DW involving flights started as 4 nights/5 days. Then I started thinking how we're flying a couple thousand miles round trip and it felt like we should be staying there longer . We wanted to modified our plan to 5 nights/6 days, but those pesky flight schedules didn't match up . So now we're currently booked 6 nights/7 days . . . but I just noticed the flights the night before our trip have gone down! Maybe I'll plan to change our trip 7 nights/8 days.

 

[DemonLlama]

Found out on Monday night that I'd be flying to WDW this Friday morning and back on Sunday morning.

(We've only ever gone for 7 nights at a time, and have that kind of trip planned for December.)

But my daughter who's at school in Sarasota had a MNSSHP ticket for this Friday and on Monday found out her roomie was cancelling on her, so DH saved the day and suggested I fly in to go with her. File this under "not-the-toughest-Mom-job-in-the-world."

 

[AquaDame]

We've done a bunch of quick Disneyland trips over the years (we're in Oregon) where we go down Friday morning, arriving around 9am and flying back Sunday evening around 6pm. It works out to about 2.5 park days which is great for us using minimal vacation time.

 

[jtowntoflorida]

My shortest was a mother-daughter trip for SWW. We flew in late Thursday night (after school let out) and flew back early Monday morning. I guess we did a long weekend like that as a family at the end of last summer, too...flew in late Wednesday after work and flew back home on Sunday morning.

 

[anonymousegirl]

This past April, I flew from San Francisco to Dubai for 2 full days. Flight was 15 hours each way.

Shortest WDW trip was 3 days and in fact, I am leaving tomorrow for a 3 1/2 day trip.

 

[mickeyluv'r]

To WDW?

In days of yore, it sometimes made sense to book super-saver non-WDW RT flights just to get the points and take the first available return flight.

In days past, it often also made sense to visit WDW for just a few hours, if we were going to FL for another reason.

WDW got greedy and dumb. At one time, we could buy no expire tickets for a reasonable per-day price. Many a visit WDW was justified with the rationale that we already had prepaid park tickets. For years, we always bought extra days on our tickets for little bonus visits.

Not any more.

 

[acfbob]

Wife and I are coming for the first time without children in a few weeks for Food and Wine. This is by far our shortest trip ever. We usually stay 7-10 nights. This is going to be a 3 night blitzkrieg. LOL. Check in by 4pm Monday and check out 10 am Thursday.

 

[autkidd]

I've flown from Jacksonville to Philly on a sat morning flight to come back Sunday for a United States men's national team soccer game. It was the send off game for the 2010 World Cup. Was there less than 24 hours.

 

[RustManFan]

I have flown for 3 night stays twice but both times I was flying on the company dime as I had business trips in Orlando. I simply paid for resort myself for the extra night since CBR and POR had availability

 

[SureAsLiz]

Shortest Disney trip will be in a few weeks. FL -> CA. Thursday night to Sunday afternoon. 2 days in the parks.
Similarly short trips to both Denver and Seattle (from FL), usually for a single event (birthday and concert respectively)

The nice thing about flights is they are much shorter than driving. The worst (I hate actually travelling. I am a destination person) was driving from OK to CO (10 hours), spending 1.5 days in Denver, then driving back another 10 hours.

 

[Doug M]

Cant justify flying 2 or 4 people in my family for less than a week. Flights from my state to Orlando are rarely under 350 a piece, usually near 500 before luggage fees. To spend 2k just to get there, no way we do a short trip.

 

[Indio]

We're leaving early Friday morning, driving down - 7 1/2 hours - going to the MVMCP Friday night. Spending Saturday morning at Disney Springs and driving back Saturday night. 15 hours of driving for 8 hours in the park!!!

 

[NJlauren]

This weekend it's about 30 hours from take off of my flight Sunday till I land on Monday to come home going to a wedding. NYC to NC

 

[kydisneyfans]

I have everyone beat. This scaredy cat after 40 years flew with his wife for the first time as she had taken a job the requires travel and I was a basket case. I boarded the plane in Louisville, KY and flew to Midway airport in Chicago. She met co-workers and flew on to NYC, I used the restroom, boarded the same plane, and landed back in Louisville an hour and 58 minutes later.

 

[kathy884]

Three nights / two days -- do this a lot (To Idaho Falls this year for a wedding this year) // My next trip to Orlando will be a mini trip like this too.

 

[uccats97]

I flew to MCO on Thursday May 21, attended the 24 hour kick off to summer party at Magic Kingdom from 6am May 22 to 6am May 23, then flew home on the 4pm flight May 23! Totally worth it and I will absolutely do it again!

 

[Disneylover99]

We've done a three night trip twice (flying out of Buffalo, but live in Toronto). Totally worth it! And it seems long compared to many of you!