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Travel Forum / Destinations / USA and Canada / September 2005suggestions on east coast tour from Orlando
Hi guys, I will attend a conference at Orlando from London. After that, I have one week free. I'd like to visit Washington DC, New York, etc. Any suggestions for the tour? > Hi guys, > I will attend a conference at Orlando from London. After that, I have > one week free. I'd like to visit Washington DC, New York, etc. Any > suggestions for the tour? I'd skip the etc. and just do Washington DC, New York, or even just one of them. There are a lot of budget airlines featuring inexpensive flights from Florida. Check the Orlando airport to Dulles, National or even BWI on Southwest, JetBlue (though they may not go to Orlando) Independance Air, Air Tran, etc. Then spend 3-4 days in Washington, and take Amtrak or the Bus to New York (much less hassle than the plane). If you can, get an open jaw flight so you can get home from New York. If that is not an option, then look into the same carriers you took north from Orlando to return. Julie  SignatureJulie ********** Check out the blog of my 9 week Germany adventure at www.blurty.com/users/jholm Check out my Travel Pages (non-commercial) at http://www.dragonsholm.org/travel.htm > > I will attend a conference at Orlando from London. After that, I have > > one week free. I'd like to visit Washington DC, New York, etc. Any > > suggestions for the tour? If you want suggestions, you have to tell people what sort of things you like to do. > I'd skip the etc. and just do Washington DC, New York, or even just one of > them. Uh-huh. > If you can, get an open jaw flight so you can get home from New York. Better yet, try to get London - Orlando - New York - London all on one ticket; you'd have to use a US airline. It would probably be structured as a London-Orlando round trip with a stopover in New York, and the cost might be very little different from a plain London-Orlando return -- *if* the latter is on the same fare basis, but it might not be. You might phone some airlines and get some fare quotes. I don't think you could do London - Orlando - Washington - New York - London that way, but it wouldn't hurt to ask. If you want to visit both Washington and New York and can't do that, the train is usually the most convenient way between the cities, but flying may be easier once you're already at an airport -- *if* that it's the *same* airport. Bus (coach to you) is usually cheapest but definitely slower. I have no information about current fares between the two cities by different modes. A better newsgroup to discuss the air travel aspects would be rec.travel.air. SignatureMark Brader "You have a truly warped mind. Toronto I admire that in a person." msb@vex.net -- Bill Davidsen My text in this article is in the public domain. > Hi guys, > > I will attend a conference at Orlando from London. After that, I have > one week free. I'd like to visit Washington DC, New York, etc. Any > suggestions for the tour? Why not just take a flight to the city of your choice and go out and enjoy what they city has to offer its visitors? Why do you need a tour? You could easily spend a few days in any city you mentioned and have a nice time visiting the features that distinguish that city. You can also do web searching to get ideas of what to see and do in an area. For example, if you google for "Philadelphia vacation" or something like that, you'll find lots of information. > Why not just take a flight to the city of your choice and go out and > enjoy what they city has to offer its visitors? Why do you need a tour? Sorry, I did not mean I need a tour guide. What I really want is to buy a convenient tour package which includes flights and hotels. Guess a package will be cheaper. >> Why not just take a flight to the city of your choice and go out and >> enjoy what they city has to offer its visitors? Why do you need a tour? > > Sorry, I did not mean I need a tour guide. What I really want is to buy > a convenient tour package which includes flights and hotels. Guess a > package will be cheaper. Probably not in fact and you'll lose the freedom to go where you want when you want. As others have suggested buy an open jaw ticket and fly into Orlando and home from JFK One week isnt really enough time to more than spend a few days in each city so just book a couple of internal flights or use Amtrak between DC and NYC. Air Tran have flights from Orlando to Washington from $114 and from Washington to New York you can take the train. Look on Expedia.co.uk for hotel deals in NYC and in DC you could do worse than the Hotel Harrington. Its old and a little shabby but is cheap, clean and right in the centre. Keith > > Why not just take a flight to the city of your choice and go out and > > enjoy what they city has to offer its visitors? Why do you need a tour? > > Sorry, I did not mean I need a tour guide. What I really want is to buy > a convenient tour package which includes flights and hotels. Guess a > package will be cheaper. I have never found that to be true. Maybe there is a major difference between tour packages coming here, and the ones I can get here, or in going to Europe, but whenever I think I'm going some place where a package should be cheaper, I'm always able to piece one together myself cheaper. It's mostly because the packages are attempting to "up sell" me to a better hotel than I'd otherwise pick, or maybe throw in rental cars or tickets to some tourist attraction. As for your general idea of stopping somewhere on the way back from Orlando, as you've seen, it is quite easy, if you only stop in one of the cities. Doing 2 might make it a bit more difficult. Although I love DC and think it's a better place for Europeans to go, I'm also aware that most folks find NYC far more entertaining, especially for a whole week. Your decision may be made as much by what flights you can get, and I suspect you'll get more options through NYC-JFK than you will through DC. But if you do decide to go to DC, might I suggest that besides the city itself, you consider spending some time, even in only for the day, in Gettysburg and Annapolis. It will require a rental car to do it reasonably, although you probably can find a bus service if you desire. >>>Why not just take a flight to the city of your choice and go out and >>>enjoy what they city has to offer its visitors? Why do you need a tour? [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > will require a rental car to do it reasonably, although > you probably can find a bus service if you desire. That is a good point. If the package provides exactly the services that you want it will almost certainly be cheaper. However, if it provides services which you do not want it can easily become more expensive. You simply have to think about what it is that you want. For example in the situation that you cited. I might go with a package with an upscaled hotel if it wasn't much more and I might spend some time actually in the hotel. Then again I might not. That decision could easily drive the choice. [snip] > >>Sorry, I did not mean I need a tour guide. What I really want is to buy > >>a convenient tour package which includes flights and hotels. Guess a [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > me to a better hotel than I'd otherwise pick, or maybe > > throw in rental cars or tickets to some tourist attraction. [snip] > That is a good point. If the package provides exactly the services that > you want it will almost certainly be cheaper. However, if it provides > services which you do not want it can easily become more expensive. Virtually no business will particularly discount their lowest cost product. The one exception is the "loss leader" but that implies that other things are being purchased at a profit. When you book a hotel, air fare, and rental car, all at the lowest cost product, no one is going to particularly discount that for you. If you are willing to pay a higher cost for one of the components, they might be willing to discount other aspects. > You simply have to think about what it is that you want. For example in > the situation that you cited. I might go with a package with an > upscaled hotel if it wasn't much more and I might spend some time > actually in the hotel. Then again I might not. That decision could > easily drive the choice. It will drive the choice. If you are going to buy an unusually large amount of something, you can usually get some discounting some how, either actual discounts or other forms of compensation (tickets, dinners, drinks, etc). If you are going to "nickle and dime" every purchase, don't expect any discounts in any form. > [snip] > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > (tickets, dinners, drinks, etc). If you are going to "nickle > and dime" every purchase, don't expect any discounts in any form. You misunderstand. I'm very not driven by discounts. If the thing being discounted is not something that interests me then a significant discount means nothing. Where it can come into play is where there is interest at one price but not at a higher one. The availability of a discount may then drive the decision. For the OP he will have to consider if the package offers more for the price than the probably smaller set of items he wants for their price. > > Why not just take a flight to the city of your choice and go out and > > enjoy what they city has to offer its visitors? Why do you need a tour? > > Sorry, I did not mean I need a tour guide. What I really want is to buy > a convenient tour package which includes flights and hotels. Guess a > package will be cheaper. You will likely do better by booking the hotel and air fare on your own. |
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