If you couldn’t cash in on JetBlue’s All-You-Can-Jet deal for some Haunt Jaunting fun check out Southwest’s $59-$109 one-way bargain fares deal.
DETAILS ABOUT THE $59-$109 ONE-WAY DEAL
- Fares don’t include taxes. Expect to pay an extra $3.60 Federal Excise Tax per takeoff and landing, airport -assessed passenger facility charges up to $9, and 9/11 Security Fee up to $5 one-way. (Basically, expect to pay about $18 extra each way in addition to the fare.)
- You have to purchase your tickets at least 14 days in advance.
- You have to buy by September 3, 2009, 11:59 p.m. Pacific time.
- Travel dates are between September 9, 2009 and January 7, 2010.
- You can’t travel on Fridays and Sundays.
- There are Blackout Dates: November 24 – December 1, 2009 and December 18, 2009 – January 4, 2010. (Basically it’s not valid for Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s travel.)
TOP HAUNT JAUNTING CITIES SOUTHWEST FLIES TO AND FROM
If you visit Southwest’s Special Offers page, you’ll see info about the $59-$109 deal and also a Book a Flight box at the right. But scroll down a little and you’ll see a Fares for this Offer list, as well as a drop down box that lets you jump to a specific city.
Cities listed with the special fare range from Albany to West Palm Beach. Here’s a sampling of some of the ones they fly in an out of (with notes next to some about Haunt Jaunts you’ll find there):
- Austin
- Baltimore
- Birmingham
- Boise
- Boston (Where you can find plenty of ghost walking tours –and even a ghost cruise!)
- Buffalo
- Burbank
- Chicago (The Chicago Ghost Conference is October 2-3.)
- Cleveland
- Columbus
- Dallas
- Denver
- Detroit
- El Paso
- Ft. Lauderdale
- Hartford
- Houston
- Indianapolis
- Jacksonville (St. Augustine is only a short drive south of here…)
- Kansas City
- Las Vegas
- Little Rock
- Long Island
- Los Angeles
- Louisville (Home to the infamous Waverly Hills Sanatorium)
- Milwaukee
- Minneapolis/St. Paul
- Nashville
- New Orleans (Home to Haunt Jaunts galore!)
- New York
- Norfolk
- Oakland
- Oklahoma City
- Omaha
- Ontario
- Orange County
- Orlando
- Philadelphia
- Phoenix (HauntedCon will be happening September 24-26 in Prescott, a short drive from Phoenix.)
- Pittsburgh
- Portland
- Providence
- Raleigh/Durham
- Reno/Tahoe
- Salt Lake City
- San Antonio
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- Seattle/Tacoma
- St. Louis (Care to stay at the Lemp Mansion?)
- Washington
Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.
Speaking of mystical, to learn how Courtney channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story.