traveling between campus and ROA

mitch1313
Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:41:59 +0000

Full disclosure: I am a planner. Perhaps obsessively so, but it works for me.

Now the topic:

My son will be a Freshman at VT this fall. We live in Massachusetts and I know traveling over Thanksgiving break can get pricey…so I have been shopping fares today and want to book his travel. It will already cost $120 more ($420) than our summer flights for orientation, and that’s if he goes back to school on Saturday. If he goes back Sunday, it’s like $650 r.t.

I’ve looked at the school calendar, and it’s nice that VT has a long T-giving break…a full week! Even so I’m looking at options and I know we’d want to send him back as late as possible on Saturday, and one option gets him into Roanoke around midnight.

And now my question:

What are the options for kids to get between ROA and campus? Will an arrival at midnight eliminate certain (or all) options? Does it make sense for him to have a 4-6PM arrival flight in ROA on Saturday instead of midnight?

Thanks!