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Originally Posted by tophcfa
I wouldn’t book a flight that early, any $$$ saved on the early flight would more than get eaten up paying for the hotel.
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It's nice to have options. The last time I booked a flight from Connecticut to Puerto Rico, there were lots of options, but only a few of them had short flight times with few stopovers. We took a 5AM flight, that got us to PR late that morning, in time to check in at our hotel, take a nap, be refreshed for dinner, and enjoy sunset from the pool. We stayed over at the hotel the night before.
Many of the options involved 2-4-hour stopovers at other airports, and connecting flights, starting at mid-morning and not getting to the hotel until well after midnight.
Thanks, but no thanks. The time your flight leaves is only one aspect of a trip. The overall travel time and how many times you have to rush to another terminal to get a connecting flight has a LOT to do with what you're willing to put up with. For me, an overnight at the airport hotel for an early departure is vastly superior to getting there in mid-morning, and spending the next 15 hours on a plane or at airports in multiple states, for what amounts to a 4-hour flight.