Florida Road Trip

[hilz22]

Originally Posted by Herbiegoesbanan

Thats sounds pretty much like what we want to do. How far in advance did you book your flights? I've been looking on BA and its coming it at just over 3k for 4 of us from Heathrow. Did you fly from Manchester to Heathrow because of where you live or some other reason. Someone else has put that they did that too and one of our quotes had it on too but seems a bit odd to me - unless you are on the doorstep of Manchester airport.

Might look at doing it in the Summer holidays instead of Easter as I guess that could be a big factor.

Thanks for replying though - its a massive help.

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We are flying this route just for the cost really, direct from heathrow was double the price.

[Herbiegoesbanan]

Thanks for letting me - shall investigate further as Manchester would be easier for us as we can get a direct train to the airport whereas Heathrow is a bit further and not a direct route. Thanks again.

[weg831]

We are doing this exact trip this summer. Flying from Heathrow to Miami. 4 nights in an Airbnb apartment in Miami, 2 nights in key west “cottage”, 1 night in Islamorada about half way up the keys. Then 4 nights in a villa in Naples before driving up to Orlando for 3 nights doing Universal. The last day we drive back to Miami to fly home. We booked it all through booking.com or hotels.com and Airbnb. Booked a fly drive via BA back in September last year.

[sparkles18]

We are doing a DIY trip in August flying Man-Lhr-Mia and then Mia-Madrid-Man for £1105 for 2 adults and 1 youth. Booked with Netflights in January. We had no intention of returning this year but couldn’t refuse the flights at that price.
This is the second time we have had bargain indirect flights with BA from Manchester. Last year we had a fly drive to LA via Heathrow for £1225!
We are going to Naples for 3 nights and booked with hotels.com with Tesco clubcard points.
Then we are going to St Pete’s Beach for 2 nights and finally 9 nights in a condo in Windsor Palms.
As our flight home doesn’t leave until 10.30pm we driving back to Miami on the final day stopping off at the Sawgrass Mall before going to the airport,
Definitely recommend booking the trip yourself and keeping an eye out for indirect flights from Manchester.

[BevArnTwe]

We’ve booked all our own for trip this year. Booked flights and car hire through BA which made it a package so protected for 3 weeks 10th-31st Aug, Manchester-Heathrow-Miami booked about 11months out for 2A & 3C (14,13&10) 7 seater for £2600. Heathrow to Miami was double the price as already stated by someone else, so no brainier really. We’ve also added HRH Universal hotel in with BA for 1night as they were cheapest for that too. Villa booked on the Dibb, and Disney hotel booked direct with Disney. Hope this info helps you.

[Northtim]

We are also flying MAN-LHR-MIA and doing a road trip 18aug to 2 Sept this year. BA Flydrive booked in January sales 6 travellers and 7 seater minivan included for £2800.

We have 2 nights in Miami Hotel, 1 night in Everglades City motel (will do airboat trip somewhere near there), a week in a Cape Coral villa with included power boat, and then 5 days in Orlando before last day drive back to Miami.

Not doing parks this time and when we were pricing this up at about £5k total it is much cheaper than flying to the Med and having 2 weeks in a villa there.

We did think about the Keys but decided we wanted to stay a bit longer in places and keep to a budget.

[tim17]

I've done two similar road trips recently which I organised myself, booked a fly-drive and then chose the hotels based on location, price and internet reviews. If I was the OP I would skip staying in Miami and drive straight to Islamorada or Marathon for four nights and use that as a base for exploring the Keys then three nights in Naples before driving to Orlando. I love driving but hate the unpacking/packing and having to stick to arrival/leaving times in the hotels.

[Young Pooh]

Originally Posted by Herbiegoesbanan

Thats sounds pretty much like what we want to do. How far in advance did you book your flights? I've been looking on BA and its coming it at just over 3k for 4 of us from Heathrow. Did you fly from Manchester to Heathrow because of where you live or some other reason. Someone else has put that they did that too and one of our quotes had it on too but seems a bit odd to me - unless you are on the doorstep of Manchester airport.

Might look at doing it in the Summer holidays instead of Easter as I guess that could be a big factor.

Thanks for replying though - its a massive help.

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We are in West Yorkshire so Manchester is the easiest option for us. We booked the BA flydrive in September 2016 for August 2017. It was much cheaper to do it this way than flight only.

Originally our flight out was with AA via Philly. The BA flight via LHR was much more expensive at the time. But then AA changed the flight time by about 10mins and I saw on here that others had been able to change their flight. I called BA and she basically asked what flight we wanted - I suggested the BA flight via LHR and she changed it no problem.

We are going back again next year and will be looking at BA again this September.

[Lell]

We are flying into Miami in September from Glasgow, staying 3 night Key Largo, 2 nights Cocoa Beach, 2 nights St Augustine and 7 nights at Universal. We booked it all through BA and it was £1700 for 2 adults.

[lisa las vegas]

We did something similar last year. We flew into Miami stayed in an airport hotel for 1 night then drove down to Marathon in the keys for 2 nights after that we drove across the Everglades and stayed in a villa in Cape Coral for 3 nights before heading up to Orlando for 9 nights staying in a villa there. We drove back to Miami for our flight home. We booked flights and car hire in the BA sale in the sept before and booked everything else independently. Can’t remember the exact cost but it was around the 4K mark we are a family of 5.