Yes, prices were very high for me from BWI->MCO and back!Quick reminder to book SWA flights home if you fly with them! Released this morning but pretty crazy high prices.
Consider yourself lucky!I’ve never been to the Philadelphia airport.
Yeah, the SW flight prices seem pretty normal for me, but I can rarely find nonstop flights. This past year a few have popped up. Right now I have one booked for the way down, but there weren’t any options for the way back. At least once this year (MW, Princess, Springtime??), I had one nonstop booked and it ended up changing to one with a stop, so who knows…
Since we’re talking flights… I have a flight (AA) in a few months that changed from a nonstop from Bangor, ME to Chicago to one with a 45 minute layover in PHL. I’m a little concerned about this. Will I make that connection? I’ve never been to the Philadelphia airport.
I’m looking at flights now and all but one option departs prior to 9:20. So if I have a 9:20 flight on a Tuesday, what time do I need to leave the resort? How’s traffic that early? This is only my 2nd WDW trip and
I flew out later last time.
It’s a short trip, so I’m not planning on checking a bag; however, since it is a small plane from Bangor, I’m guessing I may have to gate check my bag and then stand around and wait for them to get it…It's tight. My biggest worries would be weather that time of year delaying your arrival and checked baggage making the connection. I recently had a 45 minute connection in Atlanta turn into 35 minutes because we had to wait for a gate. I made it to the other plane just fine, but my bag did not. I finally got it delivered at 4am the next morning. Reinforcing my usual mantra to NEVER check luggage!
I did Chicago in the fall of '19 and was in a corral or two in front of where you are now (but not in the first wave).Chicago marathon veterans - how big a deal are corral placements? At Disney, I am usually a corral C girl (although the SG thing has changed things), but for Chicago they put in me corral H. Is this really bad? Am I going to be standing around forever waiting to start, and then be stuck in a huge crowd?
Also a Chicago 2019 vet! I forget which corral but I don't recall it being any better or worse than WDW races. It's all a blur that early.I did Chicago in the fall of '19 and was in a corral or two in front of where you are now (but not in the first wave).
The starting area was very open and after getting myself situated and familiar with where I had to go I just sat under a tree and relaxed. It was very cold that morning so I got up and moved around after a while to keep myself warm.
But yes, it did feel like a lot of waiting.
As for being stuck in a huge crowd - given the number of runners I don't think corral placement matters too much. I felt comfortable throughout most of the race with the space between me and other runners. There were only a few points where it narrowed to the point that I had to start dodging others.
Chicago marathon veterans - how big a deal are corral placements? At Disney, I am usually a corral C girl (although the SG thing has changed things), but for Chicago they put in me corral H. Is this really bad? Am I going to be standing around forever waiting to start, and then be stuck in a huge crowd?
Chicago marathon veterans - how big a deal are corral placements? At Disney, I am usually a corral C girl (although the SG thing has changed things), but for Chicago they put in me corral H. Is this really bad? Am I going to be standing around forever waiting to start, and then be stuck in a huge crowd?
Another data point from 2017. I think I started in Corral E (thanks to friends who worked for a parent company of a race sponsor). We crossed the start line at 7:49. I don’t remember anything else about what time we got there, but we did have a tent we could sit in until they walked us to the corral - so I’m not a very good pre-race example. Other friends started in Corral L, and I just remember that it took them a long time to start, it was hot that day, and they had even more time in the hotter part of the day.Are you anticipating a 4:00-4:15 marathon finish? That appears to be the estimated finish for that corral (link). This is my 2018 Chicago Marathon recap (link). I left my hotel on Michigan Ave (Chicago Athletic Association) at 5:20am. Dinked around a bit inside the gear check area, and then got to Corral B at 6:15am. Race started at 7:30am, and was across the start line at 7:32-ish at the back of Corral B. I went through the 2021 results and searched for people who finished around 4 hours. It looks like most took about 16-30 min (20 min seems about average) to start after the official gun start.
Is winter weather a factor where you’re flying from?Looking at SW flights and debating whether to fly in Thursday or Friday (only running the full). Of course I’d rather be there Thursday for a longer vacation, but Friday would work better for work and childcare logistics. Any thoughts/recommendations on which to do? If it helps, my flight would land about 5:30pm either day and cost isn’t too much of a factor.