Traveling to Ithaca

overanxious_mother
Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:38:22 +0000

You really do need to check airplane ticket prices…sometimes the cost to Ithaca is a great deal more; sometimes not. For example, we live in the Washington, DC area…it’s a good $300 less to fly to/from Syracuse…and it’s $96 (at least it was in Feb, the last time one of us made the trip–w/gas prices approaching tuition (grin), the price may have gone up) round trip in the van…so it’s still $200 less…it takes about the same amount of time (because you can’t go straight to Ithaca from DC; you have to change planes in either Philly or NYC)…on the other hand, we flew to FL for T-giving break…S flew straight from Ithaca…the price was only $50 more by the time you factored in the cost of the van…and the time was actually quicker, just because of how the schedules worked.

Also, recall that you do not have to buy a round-trip ticket on Ithaca Airline limo…one-way is around $50-$60 (just a bit more than half the round-trip)…the “limo” is actually a van (a mini-van) w/7 seats in it…it certainly would not have held all the stuff S took to college w/him (we filled up a mid-size car and drove up last August)…but if you ship most of your stuff ahead of time, or buy your “room stuff” when you arrive, you could certainly bring the two suitcases the airlines will allow you…

If someone is coming w/you from OH (a parent or friend), you might want to rent a car in Syracuse (Entperprise is by the least expensive…I just rented a car in FL from Enterprise for $35/day, unlimited mileage)…and it would be handy to have those first few days so you can go to WalMart, Target, wherever to get your stuff for your room…then whoever comes w/you could drive it back to Syracuse when he/she/they go back home…

Good luck! Hope you enjoy COrnell as much as S is enjoying it…