travel woes

[elektricmayhem]

thedish822 and i are leaving friday for europe. the only problem we currently have is that travelocity gave us a bum itinerary where we fly from richmond into laguardia and then fly from newark to manchester england

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[theydontloveyou]

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Also, if you're plane runs late out of richmond you aren't getting to newark at all. When I went to England, we were held up for about 3-4 hours because of engine trouble. If you had told us sooner, I could have mentioned that if you drove to NJ and parked at Lucas' place (you could even stay the night if you so desire), then you could just take the train (one mile away), and got to Newark within like 45 minutes for 10 bucks and taken just one flight out. However, that is if you wouldn't mind driving the four hours to NJ, which I wouldn't mind in the case of 1800 dollars. Would it be possible to cancel your RVA-Laguardia flight.

You're baggage will not be transferred, you will have to wait for it, btw.

Do you not want us to take the ferrets?

[elektricmayhem]

actually i do want you to take the ferrets. we're leaving friday so anytime thursday or whenever you want to come grab then is cool.

yea, canceling the richmond legs of the flights are probably the next step. we do fly out later that evening, so it's certainly feasible to drive up there. of course this way i don't get a hekkalopter ride :(

[theydontloveyou]

well thanks for calling! LOL.

I would definitely just drive. If you don't feel like Friday before Christmas driving, you are more than welcomed to stay at Lucas' and park there and whatever. The apartment is completely furnished, even with a kitchen, the train station is a mile away (no less), and there's a diner right across the street for awesome food. If you drive up Thursday night, sleep in on Friday and take the train midday then the nerves would be relaxed (and not paying airport parking rocks!).

I'm not doing anything Thursday. Are you free all day?

[elektricmayhem]

i dunno... the idea of staying with any of lucas' family sort of creeps me out... ;)

i'm working thursday, but i haven't decided if i'll be doing that at work or from home. it all depends on how my next two days go i think.

[mustardbear]

it is ridiculous, but what about a helicopter ride from LGA to Newark. It's cheaper than $1800: http://www.newyorkhelicopter.com/cart/transfers.html

[elektricmayhem]

actually that was something i was looking at. though they have a caveat about how luggage can't weight more than 25 pounds, and i guarantee that we're going to have more than 25 pounds of luggage. they'll probably charge us another 500 bucks for a seat for the luggage or something.

we have to just GO now and try to make it. thats the only option available to us. changing or canceling any flights is going to cost more than we originally paid for the tickets to begin with.

SO the only thing we've got is to find out the easiest and quickest way to get from laguardia to newark. i'm going to call laguardia information and see if they have any ideas. and i'm also going to call that helicopter place and see if they have any flexibility with luggage.

this whole thing blows.