An evening on Live Chat has prompted an impromptooo doo in Miami the weekend of Jan 19-21st, 2001.

The new Mandarin-Oriental is opening in 2 days and they are offering a special intro rate of $180.00 per night and 5000 AAdvantage bonus miles.

So far the attendees are

TW
Burkey
Svpii

Feel free to join in!

TW

As Tolarian said, the $180 promo rate is available, and since they are a new partner in the AAdvantage program, 5k bonus miles for a stay.

For you East Coasters, US & Airtrain started a sale yesterday, about $130 to FLL.

See you there!

I'm peeking out of the land of banishment to encourage all of you to consider Southern Florida in late January Warm, beautiful.. and a GREAT rate at a spectacular new hotel! Just the three of us right now - come on guys!

Think you will have chosen a president for us by then???

I can't promise about the president but this year the Super Bowl is somewhere else so I can pretty much promise no riots!

TW

I know there a several Southern Florida FT'rs on the boards. There is no requirement that you overnight in Miami.

How about joining us for dinner Saturday night?

hope we hear from you!

TW

FARE SALE---

Midway has launched a fare sale, $98 r/t to FLL, and some others have followed. Now's the time to book!

Count me in for dinner. I live in Palm Beach and I would love to attend..please explain times and dates for dinner. Thanks

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MRKEY

Speaking of dinner, I've heard that The Forge is excellent. I would be totally up for that.

I will be flying into MIA (via IAD) on 1/16 and heading back out to PDX on 1/23. I would love to attend for dinner but I will actually be visiting my parents in Boca Raton during this time and will be carless. If anyone is driving south for dinner, is there any chance that I could snag a ride to MIA for the event?

Essxjay, does this mean you were able to obtain that great $221 fare on UA last week? If so, what are your travel dates? I am taking flights 920 and 1915 on 1/16 and flights 1226 and 215 on 1/23.

Well, as it just so happens, it looks like I might be in MIA the evening of the 20th ...

More to come ...

Larry, I didn't snag that fare. Didn't have a reason to until I saw this thread. It's starting to sound like I may have to go fare shopping.

www.ual.com is currently listing 451.54 for my flights BUT I was still able to find the $221 fare a few minutes ago! The catch is that you need to fly into FLL, which is not a big deal, but the real problem is that the outbound flight from PDX is a redeye through ORD. More reasonable departure times are commanding a higher fare. If you dislike redeyes, it might make sense to fly to MIA and then return from FLL; I would presume that you would then be able to obtain a fare midway between the two. One other caveat is that I checked for midweek (i.e. Tuesday) departures; I would imagine that weekend fares are a bit higher. I'll try to check this out for you via the "good" version of United Connection when I am off the net.

LarryU.. I am coming down I-95 past Boca ad would be more than happy to give you a ride Sat. night. E-mail me for my phone #. It should be fun!

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MRKEY