It's that time of year again, the money is in place, mom and dad have worked and saved and the family hasn't had a HUGE family vacation in a while. I think the last time we were in Orlando was back in 2014. So of course, it's time to plan our next Orlando adventure! We have our budget in place and we are ready to put our plan into motion.
Over the past week Tony and I have been pouring over the websites looking at theme park tickets to Sea World, Disneyland, Universal Studios, and Walt Disney World. Sorry, Legoland...there is not enough excitement for us to visit you. Southwest Airlines had a major sale on one-way airfare going on and we took a look and found some inexpensive tickets for us to fly from Phoenix, Arizona to Tampa, Florida. 6 people to fly one way, nonstop for less than $1100....Yes, please! We will gladly rent a car and drive between Tampa, Florida and Orlando, Florida. Now, we just have to monitor the Southwest Airline sales to get a flight back to Phoenix, Arizona after our fun has ended. Fortunately, we have the flexibility of leaving out of Orlando or Tampa. The flights on Southwest were only open as far as June 05, 2018 and we plan on staying a few days longer than that.
As I was on my computer looking at airfare options, Tony was on his looking at timeshare options and we found one for the first week in Orlando, Florida that is large enough for our whole family. We have 2 weeks that we have to use so why not use them in Orlando? Next was booking the rental car and hotel for the evening we arrive in Tampa since we can't check into our timeshare until the next day. After that is deciding how many days we wanted for tickets to Universal Studios as well as WDW, and is Sea World even an option for us at this time? We'll see, the budget will let us know.
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