travel problems to NewYork?

[HannahS]

my family is going to a wedding in Saratoga Springs New York on June 6. What we want to do is fly down(may be fly to Albany and take a rental car to Saratoga Springs?) to the wedding on the 6th stay the night, leave in the morning(in a rental car) to go to New York, New York and stay there until the 11th and then fly back home to Omaha,Nebraska. now here is the problem...what do we do with the Rental car? and is there anyway we can get cheaper tickets? because we have 7 people and from my "research" everything is soo expensive! I cant book a hotel and the tickets at the same time because we are traveling Multicity....Help please?? any suggestions to lower our prices?

[lingua064378182]

Go with a national rental car company. You can leave it at what ever office you turn it in to.

With regard to the rental car and New York City. Don't take it there! Either drive the rental car to an office in NYC and leave it there, or just leave the car in Saratoga Springs and take a bus, train or flight to the city. Run the numbers and go with what fits your budget. But what ever you decide, do not take your car into the NYC. Traffic will be a nightmare for an out of towner, parking rates are VERY high and it is very very easy to get very expensive parking ticket. Once you are in NYC use mass transit. You'll be so much happier.

[nj_nyc]

Flying into Albany and out of NYC is called open-jaw.

Depending on where you live, you might want to look into flying Jetblue to Newburgh, NY and out of NYC. Or look at Southwest into Albany and Jetblue out of NYC.

You'll definitely want to book the hotel NOW. June is very busy in NYC and rooms are expensive.

[duker918]

I checked travelocity and came up with $530 per ticket flying from Omaha to Albany, Albany to JFK (NYC), and then JFK back to Omaha. Just rent the car in Albany and return it to the airport. The drive down from Albany to NYC is fairly long and the charge most rental companies will charge for returning the car at a different location will probably cover the airfare for all of you from Albany to NYC.
For tickets, if you ahven't tried a travel agent you might want to do that oor check out all the travel wibsites you can (Travelocity, Expedia, Orbitz, Kayak, etc.)

Good luck with your planning!