Only 7 more sleeps!!! I am in a bit of a pickle here. We booked flights from Austin 5 hours away. It was originally over $600.00 per person to fly out of my local airport. Austin was almost half the price. It is about 5 hours to the Austin Airport from my house. We are flying out at 5 A.M. The plan was to go up the night before and stay in a hotel. I checked the hotel prices before I booked the flights. They where around $200.00 a night for a suite. We like to stay in value suites because we can all be in one room. There is my family of 5 plus my grandma making it 6 total people. I procrastinated on booking the room. When I went to book in December the price had shot up to $525.00 a night for a reservation only room. Or $459.00 if you pay upfront with no cancellations or changes allowed. I went with the prepaid $459.00 option.
Well now that we are only a week out. The price to fly out of my local airport has dropped to only $479.00. It comes out to only $150.00 more per person to fly out of my local airport. For a total of $900.00. If I deduct the $459.00 for the hotel it’s only $441.00 more to fly out of my local airport. Then if you add in $80.00 for gas, $60.00 for dinner the night before, and $80.00 parking fee at the airport it would of only costs me $221.00 more for all 6 of us to fly out of my local airport. I am kicking myself for booking the prepaid room. If I would of just did a reservation only I could easily cancel. I have called the hotel chain customer service number and explained my dilemma. The local hotel is suppose to call me back with in 3 business days after they review my information. I am not sure if I should go ahead and just switch to my local airport or wait it out. If I knew for sure they would refund me I would switch.
This week I earned $191.22! I still need another $159.93 to reach my goal. That gives me one week to make it happen!
You can see my past check in’s here.
*Goal 1 was plane tickets. – DONE
*Goal 2 is the hotel. Need $1509.19 after the down payment. – DONE
*Goal 3 is park tickets – Need $1175.96 – DONE
*Goal 4 is food and spending money – Need $1250.00 have $898.85 towards this.
2/29- 3/6
My Swagbucks – $25.00
February Grocery Savings from Pantry Clean Out – $136.57
Ibotta – $29.65
Total to date – $5068.88
Money Spent and cash balances:
Southwest Plane Tickets for 5 – $1433.42
Universal annual pass and two 5 day tickets – $643.00 – Already spent!
Cash Remaining in my Universal fund – $3,547.19
Linda says
You got this
I hope it works out to fly from local airport