Alaska Plane Tickets

We bought our plane tickets to Alaska! It seems so real now that we are going back.

I have been watching the prices ever since I booked our trip and they basically have remained the same. Some days they would go up but the lowest price has always stayed the same. It's weird because one day I would check them and they would be up. Some days the flight would be the following day when I specifically put in to leave and arrive on the 13th.

I booked them directly through Princess Cruises since our mishap with Holland America back in 2007. I have been booking all our airfare through the cruise lines since then. Even though we are flying out a day earlier so we can relax and take it easy before our land tour begins on the 15th.

We are flying out of Norfolk to New York La Guardia then to Minneapolis then finally to Fairbanks. The flight leaves at 8:45 am and arrives in Fairbanks at 8:05 pm. It's going to be a long day as we gain four hours so it will feel like 12:05 am to us.

Dare and Bruce have decided to fly out of Baltimore since the airfare will be around $200 cheaper. We decided we didn't want to do that since the flight leaves at around 7:00 am and we didn't want to have to leave here soon after midnight to make the flight since it will be about a 3-4 hour drive. It would just be a long day. She said we could sleep on the plane and Jeff and I said no. You really don't get much sleep on a plane. She has a cousin that lives outside of DC so she may go up the night before and stay with them and have them take her and Bruce to the airport so they wouldn't have to pay for parking at the airport. They will meet up with us in Minneapolis for the last leg of the trip. Plus when we return from our trip we don't want to have to drive that 3-4 hours back to their house, we just want to get home. Our flight back doesn't leave till 5:50 pm and we don't return back to Norfolk till the following morning at 9:00 am so already our trip is long, we don't need to add any more hours to our return trip by driving.

We are getting so excited. Now the next thing to do is book our excursions.