Originally Posted by
red-in-la
It is 970 miles to drive from Cincy to Sarasota. If you car, loaded with 4 people and their luggage gets 20 miles to the gallon, and gas averages $3.00 a gallon, it cost about $150 just for the gas.
Now, if you tell me that you are going to drive straight thru, well, then you probably are ahead. If 4 people are going to stay two or three nights in a hotel on the way....and eat, it costs quite a bit more to drive. Plus you need more time off work, and you are probably quite a bit more tired when you get there and when you get home.
Plus, you put 2000 plus miles on your car.....which, when you are my age, you have learned costs serious money.
If you fly to Phoenix, you can probably stay very close to whatever field they end up with in Goodyear.....that is just a guess, but as I said, Phoenix is NOT Florida in March as far as crowds go.
Anyway, even if the two trips break even, you are talking about flying instead of driving 2000 miles which in my mind, makes Phoenix far superior to Sarasota.
You are wrong about SWA pricing BTW.