By Linda Stoltzfus on Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 4:51 pm: |
Last Spring we traveled with American Airlines leaving Denver at 6 am to Dallas, San Juan, Bonaire all in the same day. That doesn't appear to be an option Spring 2003. All flights require an overnight in Boston, Newark, Miami, etc. This isn't so bad for my husband and me, although a two day trip cuts into our Bonaire fun. But my 13 yr. old will travel down to Bonaire our 2nd week. She will be accompanied by her older sister but I still don't want them to have the hassle of an overnight in an unfamiliar city.
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By Mike and Debbie on Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 11:07 pm: |
We are about to make our first trip to Bonaire. We live in COS but will fly out of Denver. A couple of thoughts.
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By Linda Stoltzfus on Friday, November 1, 2002 - 12:59 am: |
Thanks for the info. We live 3 1/2 hours from the Denver airport so it really is a long travel day for us. Last April our trip home from Bonaire took 19 hours - including the early check-in time required at Bonaire and various "lay-overs". But worth every hour. We love Bonaire and hope you to do. Are you traveling AA from DIA to St. Louis? Your connections sound great. Did you book on a travel site, with a Travel Agent or by calling the airline? Flying all the way back East (NY, Boston, etc.) then South just doesn't make sense to me. At least you're only going a couple of flight hours East before heading South. We experienced no problems with AA and since we're used to leaving the mountains before dawn to catch flights in Denver...it was just the normal inconvenience for us.
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By Mike and Debbie on Friday, November 1, 2002 - 1:31 am: |
All our flight segments are on AA as follows:
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By gregg brewer on Friday, November 1, 2002 - 7:55 am: |
I suggest booking your trip thru WorldDive and ask for Larry. Larry does the air himself (he's the best)and will come up with options you hadn't even thought of....WorldDive is a large booking agent for Bonaire.
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By Rog & Karen Huff on Friday, November 1, 2002 - 11:49 am: |
Gregg...will Larry book air only or do we need to book air/land? Thanks for info...Karen
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By gregg brewer on Friday, November 1, 2002 - 1:39 pm: |
Karen,
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By Ginny Stokes on Friday, November 1, 2002 - 3:33 pm: |
Linda, another approach to make the travel day more tolerable is to come on down to Denver the night before and stay at one of the hotels by DIA, so you are already there for your early start the next day. When we booked our Feb 03 trip, many months ago, AA didn't have as many options as are available now (i.e. via STL). So we are leaving DIA Friday night, overnighting in MIA at the hotel built right into the terminal building (so no hassles with shuttles, taxis, luggage), then continuing on the next day to BON via SJU. Other trips, we have spent one night in Denver to get to the airport for that early flight time. Also just this week we booked a trip to the BVI for next August, and we are going AA from DIA via STL, SJU to Tortola. That STL connection is one of the best additions to the AA schedule out of DIA.
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By Gary Long on Friday, November 1, 2002 - 5:09 pm: |
Ginny, your next trip to Bonaire, you should overnight in Houston, and take AJ to Bonaire. It takes 6 hours from Houston.
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By Ginny Stokes on Friday, November 1, 2002 - 7:11 pm: |
If we don't have enough miles for free tickets for the 2 of us, we are going to us AJ - but it's hard to pass up AA when we have lots of miles!
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By Linda Stoltzfus on Saturday, November 2, 2002 - 3:12 pm: |
Wow...Thanks for all the suggestions. St. Louis does sound like the connection to book when traveling AA. We also use miles with AA so would rather travel with them. The flight times for April 2003 have changed since April 2002 and I sure was finding it difficult to make the San Juan flight to Bonaire all in one day.
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By Linda Stoltzfus on Saturday, November 9, 2002 - 8:06 pm: |
We're booked and ready to travel. Unfortunately we have to wait until April! :-) Because of going off daylight savings time in April, we were unable to make one day travel plans through American. The flights out of Denver will be leaving too late in the morning to make the SJU-BON flight. So we'll overnight in Miami and leisurely wait around for our afternoon flight to San Juan. Being self-employed helps as we were able to tack on a couple of extra days so we can still spend 14 days in Bonaire. YEA!!
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By Mike and Debbie on Saturday, November 9, 2002 - 8:25 pm: |
Linda,
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By Linda Stoltzfus on Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 11:17 am: |
We'd love to meet you (in person)...so we'll look forward to your venture into the mountains next Spring. In the meantime...entertain us with your trip report when you return from Bonaire.
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