Dear Cruiser Who Knows Nothing:

[LrgPizza]

Did you ever book your airfare? :D

[hpecorari]

[quote name='LrgPizza']Did you ever book your airfare? :D[/QUOTE]

Had to reply and thank you for the huge smile you just put on my face!

Harriet

[Cruiser Who Knows Nothing]

Lol. Lol. Lol. I did, thank you for asking. I posted about a week ago that I hadn't, and the fares were so high. For some reason, it got a lot of people upset. Maybe they were concerned that I'd miss the ship.

I set a deadline for last Friday. I booked round trip w Southwest (I love them) and saved $650. Under $1000 for the four of us. 8 free bags each way. I tend to overpack (hope I don't get flamed on thIs) so now I can bring whatever I want. For free. I may just bring a North Face jacket, and some Uggs. Because I can.


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[LrgPizza]

Great news! We also fly Southwest into FLL on Friday.

I'm glad you found something. I can finally sleep at night.


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[shof515]

for me, it is sooo much easier to leave out of my homeport instead of flying :)

[LrgPizza]

[quote name='shof515']for me, it is sooo much easier to leave out of my homeport instead of flying :)[/QUOTE]


Yes, I wish we had a home port in Indiana! Haha. We have driven twice to Port Canaveral for cruises, but going any further to Miami was just too much.


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[Cruiser Who Knows Nothing]

[quote name='LrgPizza']Great news! We also fly Southwest into FLL on Friday.

I'm glad you found something. I can finally sleep at night.


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I should have told you. I apologize. It's been over a week now. Poor thing.

We fly in on Thursday morning. Staying at the Hollywood Beach Marriott. We love that place, nice and low key.

My cousin owns a couple Avis' he got us an unbelievable rate on a car, we will drive ourselves from FLL to the hotel and then on May 31 we will drive to the Avis in downtown Miami, and Avis will take us to POM.

I get free parking via Marriott Rewards, so that's not an issue. I wouldn't want anyone else losing sleep over my ground transport expenses.




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[Cruiser Who Knows Nothing]

[quote name='shof515']for me, it is sooo much easier to leave out of my homeport instead of flying :)[/QUOTE]


That's got to be great, being able to leave from your home port!! I live in Chicago, maybe a cruise down the Mississippi, then a cruise out of NOLA.


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[LrgPizza]

[quote name='Cruiser Who Knows Nothing']I should have told you. I apologize. It's been over a week now. Poor thing.

We fly in on Thursday morning. Staying at the Hollywood Beach Marriott. We love that place, nice and low key.

My cousin owns a couple Avis' he got us an unbelievable rate on a car, we will drive ourselves from FLL to the hotel and then on May 31 we will drive to the Avis in downtown Miami, and Avis will take us to POM.

I get free parking via Marriott Rewards, so that's not an issue. I wouldn't want anyone else losing sleep over my ground transport expenses.
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Thank you for the info! I was going to start another thread to you asking about your parking situation, but you saved me the trouble. We will also be turning in our car downtown that Saturday morning, but ours will be at Budget which I think shares a parking lot with your Avis. Wanna race? We don't fly in until Friday morning. We are staying at the B2 downtown and catching the Marlins/Braves baseball game Friday night.

[silvercrikhix]

[quote name='Cruiser Who Knows Nothing']That's got to be great, being able to leave from your home port!! I live in Chicago, [B][U][COLOR="DarkRed"][COLOR="rgb(139, 0, 0)"][COLOR="rgb(139, 0, 0)"][COLOR="rgb(139, 0, 0)"][COLOR="rgb(139, 0, 0)"]maybe a cruise down the Mississippi, then a cruise out of NOLA.
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Now that's a GREAT idea :D

[Cruiser Who Knows Nothing]

[quote name='LrgPizza']Thank you for the info! I was going to start another thread to you asking about your parking situation, but you saved me the trouble. We will also be turning in our car downtown that Saturday morning, but ours will be at Budget which I think shares a parking lot with your Avis. Wanna race? We don't fly in until Friday morning. We are staying at the B2 downtown and catching the Marlins/Braves baseball game Friday night.[/quote]


That's interesting....we usually try to catch a Dolphin game when we're there in football season. I'm going to ask the "boys" if they're interested.

Edited: They no longer play at Joe Robbie. LOL. That would have been perfect. Too far to go to their new digs. Edited April 28, 2014 by Cruiser Who Knows Nothing

[LrgPizza]

[quote name='Cruiser Who Knows Nothing']That's interesting....we usually try to catch a Dolphin game when we're there in football season. I'm going to ask the "boys" if they're interested.

Edited: They no longer play at Joe Robbie. LOL. That would have been perfect. Too far to go to their new digs.[/quote]
Joe Robbie would've been great! But we thought the new stadium looks really cool, and since we have a car... We haven't looked into parking yet though, or whether we will just take a cab (but we are staying closer than you). Ticket prices were so cheap that we couldn't pass it up! Edited April 28, 2014 by LrgPizza

[Cruiser Who Knows Nothing]

[quote name='LrgPizza']Joe Robbie would've been great! But we thought the new stadium looks really cool, and since we have a car... We haven't looked into parking yet though, or whether we will just take a cab (but we are staying closer than you). Ticket prices were so cheap that we couldn't pass it up![/quote]

Its kinda far for a cab. Last summer, I wanted to show our son the site of the Orange Bowl. (Granted we are idiots and drove to U the Miami). LOL, I remember years ago, the Orange Bowl stadium was on the side of the expressway), Anyhoo, we walked around the U and it was cool, then found out that they play at Marlin Park. We drove there, saw it and left.

Morale of the story: In my opinion too far for a cab.

[LrgPizza]

[quote name='Cruiser Who Knows Nothing']Its kinda far for a cab. Last summer, I wanted to show our son the site of the Orange Bowl. (Granted we are idiots and drove to U the Miami). LOL, I remember years ago, the Orange Bowl stadium was on the side of the expressway), Anyhoo, we walked around the U and it was cool, then found out that they play at Marlin Park. We drove there, saw it and left.

Morale of the story: In my opinion too far for a cab.[/quote]
From our hotel, Marlin's Park is just 2.5 miles. We are staying at the B2 downtown at Bayside Marketplace (near the port), so it's not bad for us.

[Cruiser Who Knows Nothing]

[quote name='LrgPizza']From our hotel, Marlin's Park is just 2.5 miles. We are staying at the B2 downtown at Bayside Marketplace (near the port), so it's not bad for us.[/quote]

Well then, if its only 2.5 miles away, I dont have a freakin clue where it is. I know where Bayside is, and what ever stadium we went to was not 2.5 miles away. It wasn't Joe Robbie either.

I wonder where the heck we were.