Thread: High cost of flying home

Originally Posted by MCcruiser

Andrea, take a look at flying to Seattle. Your cruise line should offer a transfer from there to Vancouver. It may not save you money, but it doesn't hurt to look.

I don't understand. My trip is northbound.

Andrea, There are buses that will take you from Vancouver to the Seattle airport. We have done this several times when it saved money to fly out of Seattle rather than Vancouver. When you get into the time frame where you can book your airfare have your travel agent check on this for you.

How sad is that Neal, it is easier (and cheaper) to fly about a thousand miles away than to drive 60.

Originally Posted by freakcruiser

Thanks for making this thread - it made me think of searching of flying from a different airport.

I searched flying from NY to MIA (instead of YOW), and we could save almost $1000 !

We once took a 100 dollar cab ride from Ft. Lauderdale to Miami when we sailed Freedom and still saved 350+ dollars.

Originally Posted by Char

Andrea, There are buses that will take you from Vancouver to the Seattle airport. We have done this several times when it saved money to fly out of Seattle rather than Vancouver. When you get into the time frame where you can book your airfare have your travel agent check on this for you.

Char, did you forget about the luggage?

It would make more sense to rent a car and drive back to Seattle because of the bags. When my sister and BIL took a cruise up in Alaska, they flew to Seattle and drove to Vancouver with a rental car. The irony of doing that on my cruise is one port on that route is Seattle.