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October Flights from SJU to EIS
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07/25/2019 02:56 PM
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Sooooo we booked our flights in March for our 10 day sail starting October 30th (Happy Birthday to me!). We've booked United that gets us into San Juan at 12:22 PM on Tuesday October 29th and initially Seaborne Airlines NOW Silver Airways operated by American... that leaves San Juan at 1:50 PM. (It was leaving at 2:20 but now they've moved them up) I know we were supposed to book a through fare to eliminate any issues but it didn't happen that way.
Question is do we have enough time as it stands now (1:28 of course hoping there's no delays along the way...) to arrive in San Juan, get our bags and check in to the Seaborne-Silver-American flight to Tortola?
It's been 5 years since our last sail, this time we're bringing along 2 couples who've never visited the BVI.
"We lost our corkscrew and were compelled to live on food and water for several days. ~W.C. Fields"
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Re: October Flights from SJU to EIS
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07/25/2019 03:12 PM
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Excellent idea Warren, thank you!
"We lost our corkscrew and were compelled to live on food and water for several days. ~W.C. Fields"
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Re: October Flights from SJU to EIS
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09/12/2019 12:48 PM
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Not sure why but why is it so challenging to fly to and from the BVI these days.... just received our 5th schedule change since we booked in March, now Silver Airways has pushed our departure time out of Tortola to San Juan back by 2 hours which only leaves us 55 minutes to get through immigration to catch our next flight home. Not gonna happen! No earlier flights that day so it looks like we may get stuck for an extra night in Tortola (not a bad thing) and fly out Sunday, assuming we can get United to change our flight home (which they should since they've changed our schedule 3 times...) I think I know why we stick to Puerto Vallarta more often then the BVI.
"We lost our corkscrew and were compelled to live on food and water for several days. ~W.C. Fields"
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Re: October Flights from SJU to EIS
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09/12/2019 02:33 PM
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We have flown to SJU on various airlines over the years. We connect to EIS via Cape Air always. We have had to reschedule that connection more than once never any problem or fees to do that. We have also fine tuned the luggage to carry on only and that simplifies things alot.
Have a great trip.
I always take life with a grain of salt. Plus a slice of lemon, and a shot of tequila
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Re: October Flights from SJU to EIS
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09/12/2019 04:31 PM
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We have been to the BVI's 20+ times, we have flown through SJU and through STT. We prefer STT and the ferry WAY over the SJU route.
I know others feel just the opposite, I guess it is a personal preference.
We fly out of Detroit, MI and always have a layover somewhere. We can still get to STT between noon - 3:30, we have always made the ferry over to Tortola the same day. Returning we take our time getting off the boat and take the ferry back to St. Thomas. We spend a night (or two) in St. Thomas before we fly home.
Colleen
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Re: October Flights from SJU to EIS
[Re: shiloh8912]
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09/15/2019 09:08 PM
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Hats off to United Airlines. We called them today and due to the 737 Max issues they rescheduled us to leave SJU later with no additional fees. American Airlines could learn a few things from them. Keep our fingers crossed NO more schedule changes. 6 is enough....
"We lost our corkscrew and were compelled to live on food and water for several days. ~W.C. Fields"
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Re: October Flights from SJU to EIS
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09/17/2019 04:31 PM
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That's probably why United was willing to help us out, adding an extra leg to our trip and moving the departure time back 3 hours created some havoc with our sailing group.
"We lost our corkscrew and were compelled to live on food and water for several days. ~W.C. Fields"
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Re: October Flights from SJU to EIS
[Re: Orange_Burst]
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09/18/2019 04:44 PM
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We have been to the BVI's 20+ times, we have flown through SJU and through STT. We prefer STT and the ferry WAY over the SJU route.
I know others feel just the opposite, I guess it is a personal preference.
We fly out of Detroit, MI and always have a layover somewhere. We can still get to STT between noon - 3:30, we have always made the ferry over to Tortola the same day. Returning we take our time getting off the boat and take the ferry back to St. Thomas. We spend a night (or two) in St. Thomas before we fly home. We are doing that exact thing in April Colleen...starting in Road Town vs Leverick makes that decision easy . Also looking forward to spending some time on St Thomas
Kim
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Re: October Flights from SJU to EIS
[Re: Sandsailsun]
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09/19/2019 08:26 AM
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We have been to the BVI's 20+ times, we have flown through SJU and through STT. We prefer STT and the ferry WAY over the SJU route.
I know others feel just the opposite, I guess it is a personal preference.
We fly out of Detroit, MI and always have a layover somewhere. We can still get to STT between noon - 3:30, we have always made the ferry over to Tortola the same day. Returning we take our time getting off the boat and take the ferry back to St. Thomas. We spend a night (or two) in St. Thomas before we fly home. We are doing that exact thing in April Colleen...starting in Road Town vs Leverick makes that decision easy . Also looking forward to spending some time on St Thomas I just booked a boat for April, we will be down from April 18-May 1st. When will you be down?
Colleen
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