Three weeks of constant price watching has FINALLY paid off! I have been watching ever kind of website imaginable in the hopes of finding decent airfare. Unfortunately I discovered that the much loved direct flights were almost impossible to get, especially around April vacation. With 34 days to go, I wasn't expecting to get down to Orlando for less than $350 per person/roundtrip. Excuse me for saying this, but that is a CRAZY price to pay for roundtrip tickets to Orlando, I don't care who you are! The last three trips I took had me and my travelmates flying from Boston to Orlando for less than $200 per person/roundtrip and in the case of our last Disney vacation in 2008, Rick and I flew for less than $170.00r/t while Bella and I flew for less than $145.00 r/t. Now to have to pay almost $200 more per person was INSANE!
I have been keeping up with all the sites and religiously checking Jetblue, Airtran, Southwest, Delta, American Airlines, United and Continental to see about scoring a deal. Unfortunately there were no deals to be had. Even a one way trip to Orlando was running more than $169.00 and that wasn't even a direct flight or early in the morning, two things that I would have preferred. My favorite time to log on was right after waking up. Rick had just left for work and the baby was already up, singing to himself and progressively getting louder until I got up (I know his wiley ways!). Anywho, I would grab the laptop and run a few searches and found myself disappointed as there had been no changes since the day before. This has been happening over the last few weeks, and when the price did change it went up, not down. Grrrrrr!
Well this morning I wasn't as excited to jump on but did it anyway. Imagine my surprise when I logged onto Airtran (after having received no good fares on Jetblue) and saw that almost immediately there were a few flights that were departing Boston between 6am and 9am and they were under $100! $84.00 to be exact. I had to take my glasses off, clean them and then put them back on as I was CERTAIN that my eyes were playing tricks on me. Except no, there were no tricks to be played. As clear as day there was an early am flight departing Boston and although not direct, it got us there at a decent time to check in and enjoy the rest of the day...Woo Hoo! Without hesitation I booked four tickets and confirmation was received. We are FINALLY set to go!!
Now hopefully return airfare will be just as easy.
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