United, Magical Express, and the extra bag fee

[Clay Ransone]

So I booked my airfare today and managed to get three people from Norfolk to Orlando for $1,038.00 round trip on United. I’m pretty happy about that. So I’m sitting at my desk still feeling like I accomplished something when the lovely $25 extra bag fee United charges popped into my head. The last time I was at Disney we ended up having to purchase a bag at the POFQ gift shop to avoid an overweight bag fee from Delta since the DME people could not take money. Since I am sure that we will have two or possibly three extra bags over the free limit United has I was wondering how DME is going to handle this? Will I be able to pay for my extra bag at the DME counter via a credit card? Will I be able to pull a fast one on United and get back to Virginia with out paying the extra bag fee? My biggest fear is that I will have to wait until I get the airport to check in my bags thus defeating the entire exercise of using a participating airline. With any luck United will drop the stupid extra bag fee by the time I go (November 30th through December 7th) but I doubt it.

[BelleLovesTheBeast]

You might want to consider shipping your items back home. We've done that on a couple of trips. We shipped back some stuff a couple of years ago for $12. It was actually a good size box. We had snowglobes and wine (we forgot about not being able to carry it on the plane).

[Clay Ransone]

You might want to consider shipping your items back home. We've done that on a couple of trips. We shipped back some stuff a couple of years ago for $12. It was actually a good size box. We had snowglobes and wine (we forgot about not being able to carry it on the plane).

That is not a bad idea at all. I was thinking about that when I got home last night. Will the resorts allow me to prepare a FedEx label and schedule a pick up at the resort or will I need to go and find a Kinko’s? I can’t remember does POFQ have a business center?

[faline]

Here's additional information on shippnig from your resort.

[AirlineGuy07]

You paid over $1000.00 for 3 three people ORF-MCO????? Wow that's outrageous!! You could't find anything cheaper say like out of PHF on Airtran? We paid $387.00 for the 3 of us out of IAD in May. Thats total roudtrip.

[dan24]

when you ship things you buy back home they dont charge you sales tax.. i think you have to claim it on your taxes but saves for the moment and i think you pay what the taxes are in your area.. not what they are in disney .. just a tid bit

[Clay Ransone]

You paid over $1000.00 for 3 three people ORF-MCO????? Wow that's outrageous!! You could't find anything cheaper say like out of PHF on Airtran? We paid $387.00 for the 3 of us out of IAD in May. Thats total roudtrip.

Airfare is high out of Hampton Roads regardless of the airport. AirTran was higher than United for the dates I was looking at. What is killing me is my departure date. I fly out the Sunday after Thanksgiving and everything was high. Round trip on AirTran would have been close to $1,300. I live like five minutes from ORF so for me to fly out of PHF it would have to been much cheaper than what I was able to find on United.