The Great Thing About Saturday Travel

Posted by Travel Blogger on Jan 9, 2010 in Business Travel, Sight Seeing |

Even though most travel experts will tell you that the best days for flying anywhere in the U.S. are Monday through Friday, I have to wonder if they are not just buying into the Airlines marketing hoopla. You know as well as I do that most air fares that don’t include a Saturday night stay are higher priced. So, of course, they are going to be more expensive and higher trafficked.

In my years of experience, however, I always try to schedule flights on Saturdays because it just “feels” like the easiest day to travel. Maybe that’s because everyone is “staying over night” on Saturday and not actually flying that much? Who knows. Of course long weekends make Sundays nice to fly as well, but even generally speaking, I like Saturday over the other six days in the week.

I’ve just checked in online at both the airline as well as my Comfort Inn JFK Airport Hotel, so all that is taken care of. Even though I’ll be into the NYC area late afternoon, I’m excited to have no business responsibilities for all of Saturday night and the entire day Sunday! Woo Hoo!

Many years ago, before 9/11 occurred I flew into JFK and was picked up by my brother. It was late at night and we were driving back to his home in Connecticut for my stay that trip. But being ever adventurous, we decided to drive around Manhattan for a bit that evening.

The only two things I remember vividly was the Pad Thai we ate (somewhere. That part I don’t remember!) and driving down the street right next to the World Trade Center. I mean, we actually stopped right at the side of the building and looked up through the open sun roof.

We didn’t have a camera with us, and this was really before cell phones all had them built in, so no lasting physical memories. But let me tell you: I can still see that vision clearly in my mind. Those buildings were amazing. I only wish I’d had the chance to see the view from the top of one of those towers.

So, on Sunday, I totally plan on taking the time, standing in line and going to the top of the Empire State Building. And now that I’m an “expert” (yeah, it’s in quotes, so you know what that really means ) with taking pictures from my phone. I’ll do my best to post a pic or two from the top of the ESB.