Originally Posted by
flyer4512
That was the plan, go up Friday and stay at the intercontinental but you still need a shuttle to bag check as the hotel is not connected to the airport which makes no sense, I love the TPA Marriott where you can walk with bags right to check in........... guess the IC only has a security check for carry on bags and have read the hours vary.................now if DELTA would let us fly RST/MSP on Friday and MSP/HNL on Saturday and load our bags that would work................of course with what I'm guessing is an odd request would I trust our bags get on the MSP/HNL plane, lol
In the TripAdvisor reviews I have read a few horror stories about the Intercontinental shuttle.
Can you combine a Friday RST/MSP flight which lands at 6:30pm with a 11:30 am departure the next day to HNL or do you have to pay for the additional RST/MSP flight which is $476 for both of us round trip plus the cost of the hotel ?
Anyway thanks for all the replies and ideas concerning our trip , I'm flying Delta to Vegas next week ( and again in March ) and I'm going to do a dry run on the check in using EZ air park and 4 total bags.......Maybe I can make an extra 2 bags work if the bag check is close to where EZ air drops us off
The normal rules are you're allowed 24 hours (including overnight) as a connection on an international itinerary but only 4 hours for domestic travel before the "layover" becomes a stopover probably requiring a higher fare (and using multicity search to book the ticket on delta.dumb, although I usually need to call for overnight international connections too). Due to COVID-19 schedule reductions, the 4 hour rule was increased to 6 hours, but IIRC it's now back to 4 again.