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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every time we've looked at it, we're priced out for a family of four. If you buy tickets early enough, I think kids go free in the summer but there's a deadline of early early June. We've always ended up driving. The drive or the train won't be bad, if your kid has electronics and movies to view video games to play, Etc[/quote]

A train would be better than driving since you can walk around and sleep (assuming you have a sleeper cabin...which I'm guessing isn't cheap).

Try searching for air and hotel packages. They're pretty reasonable since a family of 4 can fit in one hotel room.

My son told me he saw cheap flights to Miami on American the other day---even over spring break. [/quote]

Correct - sleeper rooms are expensive - $700 each. You would need two for a family of 4 so roundtrip to Florida on the train is about $3000 for 4 people. Not cheap even though people assume it is less expensive. [/quote]

I just got autotrain tickets for this  June - 2 adults and 2 kids, so 2 sleeper "roomettes" were $640 total.  Add the price of our car and it's $840 one way.[/quote]

I just don’t get this. $840 one way?!? That’s $1680 Rt! For peak spring break week I spent on 4 plane tickets $1200 ($300 each) plus $285 all in on a full size rental car through Costco. So only $1485 total. And way faster.[/quote]

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