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[Minniemouse27]

We (four of us) have to fly from Philly to Minneapolis this summer for a wedding and the fares are anywhere between $1,250 and $2,500 for all of us!!! And this isn't including a rental car or hotel!!

It is just too far to drive with the limited amount of time we have for the trip.

This means we'll have to bump our WDW/DCL trip until next year.

[stubekis]

What?!! That sounds exorbitant! Have you tried sidestep.com? It's a new-ish travel website that compares the lowest fares from all the other travel sites and pools them in one place. Maybe keep checking, and something will come down? I'm sorry to hear that - very disappointing! Pixies that you will get a good fare for MN and still be able to go!

[lukeandbrookesmom]

Wow! Those are crazy prices!

[GoofyMom]

I don't think $300-ish per person is that awful, although $600 sounds pretty steep. But then again, I am somebody way too used to paying $600+ for flights. An $89 flight wouldn't even get me to the border. It's between $400 and $600 for me to fly to Minneapolis and it's only an 8 hour drive...

Sorry you won't be able to go to WDW this year.

[Minniemouse27]

I'm used to flights to MCO being well under $100 each way so this is a bit of a sticker shock! Heck I can fly to CA for less than that!

Flying the same weekend...with approximately the same flight times to MCO is only $1100, and that is kind of high compared to what we usually pay.

[Colexis Mom]

Airfares aren't what they used to be! We paid $100 pp roundtrip in 2006. In 2009, it was $225 pp. Same time of year, and same airline (southwest).

[MammaKat]

Yeah, us poor Canadians who can't easily cross the boarder to a US airport are normally looking at $600-800 one way for tickets

My Dec 2010 trip is looking at $3800 for airfare alone for 5 of us - that's why we're going for 2 weeks

If airfare was like you guys down south get, we'd go 2x a year, not every 3 or 4!

[chezp]

Wow, that is a lot of money - even for the States, where us Brits find the airfare sometimes unbelievable, compared to what we pay here.

[saremca]

Airfares are crazy expensive. It's the only reason we drive every year. We couldn't afford to go every year if we had to fly.

[MammaKat]

I wish we could drive -

Looked at amtrack - 3 days from Vancouver, and we'd need another 1/2 day or day to get there first. One way! BUT it is 1/2 the price. travel time 8 days

Driving would be minimum 50 hours non stop, and 5,000 kilometers and through 14 states.
10 tanks of gas 1 way - $800, plus 4 days, 4 hotel rooms $400, food for travel $500 = $1700 one way and 4 days driving 12 hours a day. I'd then need to rest at least a day or 2 before I could do anything...
That would really waste 10 days of my vacation time.... sigh

I've looked at all the angles, mapped it out on map quest, even broke it into chunks and looked for hotels!

Flying - 14 hours +/- 4 = 2 days total, giving me 8 more days to play than driving! downside - cost, sigh...

What I'll do for the mouse!

[Carousel96]

All I can offer is sympathy.
We live in Minneapolis and think airfares here are high.
Not a lot of competition IMHO. And the Delta/NW merger made it worse.

[B.M.]

I agree with others that airfare has just gotten ridiculous! We live in GA and since there are 6 of us; we drove this past Thanksgiving. I think from now on; anytime that all of us go- we will drive to save $$. But for my son and I going- just the two of us; I sucked it up and paid for flights.....