Recommend an airport shuttle for wife? Columbine to DIA

[hurley842002]

My wife and I often do this. She flies and I drive. I enjoy the drive and she gets picked up curbside at whatever airport she is flying into.

I don't know where exactly you are in Columbine, but the least expensive way to get to DIA is via RTD. If you can get a friend, neighbor, or family member to take her to the nearest light rail station, she can connect at Union Station to the airport. Since you will have most of her luggage with you, she won't be burdened on the train or bus with heavy bags. Even if she can't find someone to take her to the light rail, an Uber/Lyft/taxi to the light rail will cost less than a ride to the airport.

When driving from Denver to San Diego, I normally take advantage of the numerous inexpensive hotel rooms in Las Vegas. Even if you only made it to St George, the drive is easy till you get to San Bernardino.

Enjoy the drive. Be safe.

Great idea, I'll have to keep that one in mind for my wife. I too would rather drive than fly, and my wife is the opposite. Sometimes a nice long drive, by yourself through territory you don't frequent often, is the best form of therapy.

[Monky]

My wife and I often do this. She flies and I drive. I enjoy the drive and she gets picked up curbside at whatever airport she is flying into.

I don't know where exactly you are in Columbine, but the least expensive way to get to DIA is via RTD. If you can get a friend, neighbor, or family member to take her to the nearest light rail station, she can connect at Union Station to the airport. Since you will have most of her luggage with you, she won't be burdened on the train or bus with heavy bags. Even if she can't find someone to take her to the light rail, an Uber/Lyft/taxi to the light rail will cost less than a ride to the airport.

When driving from Denver to San Diego, I normally take advantage of the numerous inexpensive hotel rooms in Las Vegas. Even if you only made it to St George, the drive is easy till you get to San Bernardino.

Enjoy the drive. Be safe.

You mean the train that sometimes works?

[Madeinhb]

Time wise doesn't matter much. My wife are driving out in end of July, maybe in August. We will get up early and make the drive to Vegas. Stay the night there. Then drive rest of way next day. It takes more "travel" time but the gas is cheaper to drive than pay for an airline ticket, rent a car, etc. If we have to fly-fishing we fly at night and get to Socal around 11 pm. So I told wife, all flying does is give us breakfast time.

But if your wife has to fly, Uber it. It's cheaper than a shuttle.

[cstone]

You mean the train that sometimes works?

More likely to take a delay on the flight than the train. Still, the contractor and RTD sure have screwed the rail system up. I'm pretty sure that trains are not a new technology and that a few other cities around the planet have figured out that whole crossing gate and electrical power thing. I think RTD must have hired the same contractor that put the original, non-functional baggage system in at DIA.

[Monky]

More likely to take a delay on the flight than the train. Still, the contractor and RTD sure have screwed the rail system up. I'm pretty sure that trains are not a new technology and that a few other cities around the planet have figured out that whole crossing gate and electrical power thing. I think RTD must have hired the same contractor that put the original, non-functional baggage system in at DIA.

It's apparently the first rail line to use the new technology... so no one has actually used it... just in theory. It is however a cluster fuck and probably is that same company.


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[Mtneer]

The house above us was broken into the same night our neighbor was taken to DIA by an Uber driver. Coincidence? Me thinks not. You're basically telling a stranger your house is unoccupied. If you have to use a service like that, I'd arrange pick up somewhere other than your house.

[Martinjmpr]

I too would rather drive than fly, and my wife is the opposite. Sometimes a nice long drive, by yourself through territory you don't frequent often, is the best form of therapy.

This x 1000.

Wife and I camp a lot with our trailer so we've done quite a few long road trips together. I enjoy them but she pretty much just "puts up" with them - which in turn means I spend a lot of time taking care of her. A road trip by myself is a nice break for me because I don't have that responsibility of making sure she's comfortable, etc. Plus she usually wants to choose the music we listen to and let's just say that her taste in music and mine differ somewhat (as in, I don't have even one Britney Spears or Shakira song on my iPhone. )

When driving from Denver to San Diego, I normally take advantage of the numerous inexpensive hotel rooms in Las Vegas. Even if you only made it to St George, the drive is easy till you get to San Bernardino.

I didn't think there was anything "inexpensive" in Vegas these days.

Las Vegas isn't even a city, it's a giant machine whose only industry is figuring out how to shake every penny out of the people who pass through there.

20 years ago I remember there were still places where you could get a nice steak dinner for under $10, the idea being that if they could get you in the door you'd probably do some gambling. But it seems they've caught on to cheap SOBs like me who would take the cheap goodies and walk right on by the one-armed-bandits so now they sock you for money for everything. Even parking at most of the big casinos costs now. And last time we were there (in 2014 at Halloween) the traffic on Las Vegas Blvd was horrendous.

Anyway, I'm not going to throw money away on a hotel when all I need is a place to lay my head. A sleeping bag and a sleeping pad in the back of my Pathfinder work fine and you can't beat the cost. The area along the San Rafael Swell from Green River to Richfield is filled with places where you can pull off on a dirt road and sleep for the night - been there, done that.