I love Florida, but my one and only visit to MCO was pretty much wasted as I didn't care for it. It was a conference, so that was fine, but I rented a car and hightailed it to Miami Beach for the weekend when it was over

Oh, it's a lovely area, and I had a one day workday there last year, but other than going on an airboat ride I could not recommend anything.

Having said that, there seems to be nothing Budget Travel related about this thread except for the price of the hotel and the flight, but as those are no longer available I'm moving this thread to the abovementined Orlando forum.

Oh, and my first visit wasn't a total waste. The evening flight was oversold, everyone had hotel rooms booked, so the bump voucher ended up being $500

And a few months later (back when Travelocity used to do flight alert for Int'l destinations - ya, a while back), CO had a one day only fare sale to Rio - actually now methinks that it must have been a mistake fare of $538 a/i. That's right, after the voucher I paid a grand total of $38 for a r/t to GIG

Actually almost flew to Rio right after the conference, as the MCO-IAH-GIG fare was about $250 cheaper than IAH-GIG. If only we could still do hidden cities

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