Originally Posted By Labuda WOO HOO! $325.80 total for both of us roundtrip to Tampa, which also meas we also have an excuse for a rental car, so YAY! Of course, hoping for aother good Ding! that will get us to Orlado instead so we can save rental car $$, but WOO HOO regardless. hehe
Originally Posted By Coachbagfanatic1 Wow Labuda, Great price. Way to go. I know this might sound like a really silly question but what is a Ding?
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 Great airfare, my husband just loves to drive so unless we could get all 6 of us from Okc to Mco under $1200 round trip we will drive. That's ok it's a tradition.
Originally Posted By Labuda Coach - Ding! is a program you can download from Southwest. (<a href="http://www.southwest.com" target="_blank">http://www.southwest.com</a>) Ding! will pop up about once or twice a day (on average) with airfare deals that are MUCH cheaper than you'd pay otherwise. ote that we're paying $325.80 for the two of us roud trip with a Ding! fare. Going back to SW's site right now and checking the price WITHOUT using Ding! - it would be $725.80 for the exact same flights. Sooooooo, Ding! saved us $400. LONG LIVE DING!
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 Ok Labuda your going to laugh at me...I always thought that when you said Ding it was like Ding Ding.(as in hello great price here) I never thought it was something from Southwest or any airfare.
Originally Posted By stitchcrazy Hooray for Labuda! Did you get flight times that worked good for you too? I am thrilled with the flights we got. Mom and I are coming in early and leaving late. Now my only worry is AirTran changes the flights between now and then. They did that to my hubby and I last year when we booked a bit earlier than normal and royally messed up our plans for the first day of that trip.
Originally Posted By Crazy4WDW Just booked mine this morning for 9/28 through 10/3. I also did Southwest. I paid $177.10 roundtrip from Pittsburgh to Orlando! Whoo hoo!
Originally Posted By Coachbagfanatic1 Labuda - Way to go for the ding. That's fabulous. What a great savings.
Originally Posted By Labuda Diseymom - no worries, girl - if you're not familiar with Southwest, I wouldn't expect you to kow what Ding! is. Stitch - yep, flying out at about 3:30 pm, which gets us to Tampa around 7 pm, meaning we'll be at WDW by about 9 o'clock (bout an hour and a half drive IIRC), can have diner either en route to or once we're at WDW and checked in, and then bed at a decent hour so we can be up with the chickens the next day. Then flight home is right about 3 pm, too, so we'll leave WDW at checkout time, head down to Tampa, turn in the rental car, and then be ready to leave.
Originally Posted By kramer222 Hey, I just signed up for Ding, but it looks like you can't get airfare until 3 or 4 months out. Yikes! I'm traveling in March!
Originally Posted By t1lersm0m So you can get cheaper airfare through Ding than through Southwest? I don't understand that. I got all excited when I read your post and went to see if my airfare possibly went down, but it hasn't.
Originally Posted By Labuda kramer - correct - Southwest onnly releases their schedules/starts booking fares about 4 months out or so. But, looking at Ding! offers ow will give you a idea of what kinds of fares you can expect to find later on down the line through the program.
Originally Posted By Labuda Leigh - yep - if you did book through SW, get Ding! ad make sure you're ready to cancel your reservation and make a new (cheaper) one through Ding! if something better comes up.
Originally Posted By jazzfan4 I don't have "DING" on my work computer so I don't see any good deals out of SLC. I am not sure if the computer gestopo would allow it.
Originally Posted By jazzfan4 Labuda, now you have to watch for car rental deals and Tampa looks ugly now but those prices will probably fall.
Originally Posted By Labuda Yeah, plus I've got an Entertainmet book, so will be using a coupon from that as well. It's almost a certainty I'll go with Alamo since they're my usual company.
Originally Posted By Labuda If all else fails, we'll just ret a car to get from Tampa to the car care center, and the one to get back to Tampa - that'd only be about $110 or so...
Originally Posted By jtomyl I am coming from Hawaii to the property. If I flew direct from HNL to MCO with the normal couple hour lay over when changing planes, it was about $850. I modified the trip to return through LAX and take a couple of day stop over and the price dropped about $100. I was totally shocked!
Originally Posted By Labuda You may even be able to get it a bit lower than that, jtomy - I've seen about $200 RT from LAX to MCO, so depending what kind of fare you can get from Honolulu, you *may* be able to beat $750 RT. Oh, and I hope you're going to use those two days in the LA area to visit Disneyland!
Originally Posted By t1lersm0m ^^Labuda, shame on you. The world doesn't revolve around all things Disney! (yeah, as if!!!!)
