Visiting NY from Raleigh (how much, living, buses)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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Take 2. Flights for next week. Been playing around with cheapflight, expedia, UA's site for the past 2 hours.
Need to fly into EWR, needs to be Saturday and leave Sunday with enough time to see people in the early part of the days while there. My times and dates are unfortunately not flexible, tried Friday afternoon/eve but that didn't work either costwise or timewise.
Best I can find is with UA for $708. That is just nuts.
Take 2. Flights for next week. Been playing around with cheapflight, expedia, UA's site for the past 2 hours.
Need to fly into EWR, needs to be Saturday and leave Sunday with enough time to see people in the early part of the days while there. My times and dates are unfortunately not flexible, tried Friday afternoon/eve but that didn't work either costwise or timewise.
Best I can find is with UA for $708. That is just nuts.
Gonna be a long sucky drive....
$708 for two people isn't crazy. You could have gotten it cheaper had you booked earlier, but a week in advance that's not a terrible price.
Usually as long as I book flights about 2 weeks in advance I can fly direct into Newark, NJ on A Friday and leave on a Monday for $190 or less per person Total (fees, taxes etc included). You get hosed if you wait until the week of your trip though.
Take 2. Flights for next week. Been playing around with cheapflight, expedia, UA's site for the past 2 hours.
Need to fly into EWR, needs to be Saturday and leave Sunday with enough time to see people in the early part of the days while there. My times and dates are unfortunately not flexible, tried Friday afternoon/eve but that didn't work either costwise or timewise.
Best I can find is with UA for $708. That is just nuts.
Gonna be a long sucky drive....
Why must you fly into EWR?
You could fly into LGA or JFK and take a car out there for not too much money, if you had to, no?
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Take 2. Flights for next week. Been playing around with cheapflight, expedia, UA's site for the past 2 hours.
Need to fly into EWR, needs to be Saturday and leave Sunday with enough time to see people in the early part of the days while there. My times and dates are unfortunately not flexible, tried Friday afternoon/eve but that didn't work either costwise or timewise.
Best I can find is with UA for $708. That is just nuts.
Gonna be a long sucky drive....
Just to be clear....are you trying to drive up there Saturday and drive back Sunday? Why not just have a couple's weekend waterboarding each other while you're at it?
Ok that may have been a joke in poor taste...but seriously bud; that's a rough drive for a weekend. I was dead-set against buying a plane ticket for what I assumed would be a reasonable drive for a weekend trip and I ate crow the whole way back (the drive back is what kills you).
Flying into JFK from RDU seems to be cheaper than flying into Newark. Newark might be a little closer to Manhattan but a 30 minute subway ride after a 1.5 hour flight still beats the hell out of a 12 hour drive; much of which involves sitting in DC area and NJ traffic.
$708 for two people isn't crazy. You could have gotten it cheaper had you booked earlier, but a week in advance that's not a terrible price.
I agree. OP, airlines in the US price differently than what you are used to, I'm afraid. Discounts are not so frequent.
That said, don't forget to check Southwest Airlines. They don't participate in any of the sites that you are itilizing. You have to search directly on their website. They fly into newark, la Guardia and (maybe Islip.)
And what about Frontier? But be careful of exyra charges like carry on bag charges.
Just to be clear....are you trying to drive up there Saturday and drive back Sunday? Why not just have a couple's weekend waterboarding each other while you're at it?
Ok that may have been a joke in poor taste...but seriously bud; that's a rough drive for a weekend. I was dead-set against buying a plane ticket for what I assumed would be a reasonable drive for a weekend trip and I ate crow the whole way back (the drive back is what kills you).
Flying into JFK from RDU seems to be cheaper than flying into Newark. Newark might be a little closer to Manhattan but a 30 minute subway ride after a 1.5 hour flight still beats the hell out of a 12 hour drive; much of which involves sitting in DC area and NJ traffic.
I agree, this is just a terrible situation to be in. I can't even imagine it. And I too wonder why it was to be Newark.
It's difficult to give advice without knowing exactly where you are going - NYC proper, or a surrounding suburb?
There are plenty of other options if you can be flexible Southwest is probably your best bet, maybe flying into MacArthur and training it into the city, fly into JFK and take the AirTrain to Jamaica and then the train into the city. LaGuardia should be avoided, they are doing a massive renovation and people have been seen running up the Grand Central Parkway to catch their flights, not a situation you want to find yourself in.
You could also fly into Philly or take Frontier to Trenton as mentioned. We once flew into Philly, rented a car and drove to LI as the savings for the 5 of us was huge. It wasn't that bad, it's probably 2-2.5 hours Philly to NYC right up the NJ Tpke.
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