Once again, United Airlines wreaked havoc on our travel plans during a recent trip to The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
It really shouldn’t take 12 hours to get from Seattle to Colorado Springs via Denver — but it did. The return route was truly a comedy of errors of Academy Award winning proportions complete with delays and disappointing customer service, but we managed to finagle a seat on the last flight from Denver into Seattle.
To avoid the possibility of being stuck at Colorado Springs Municipal Airport (or delayed on the inbound — we’ve been subjected to both scenarios on multiple occasions), fly into Denver, rent a ride and drive one hour to The Broadmoor. The five-diamond resort has an arrangement with Alamo, and when we mentioned that we were staying at The Broadmoor, the quoted price one-way rate of $154 magically dropped to $39.99. That’s a very small price to pay for avoiding potential snafus at Colorado Springs airport and ensuring you don’t miss out on a single minute of Rocky Mountain fun.
Feeling a bit more flush? The Broadmoor can arrange for round-trip or one-way chauffeured sedan service. Ditto from Colorado Springs Municipal Airport. If you were to tabulate the total time spent laying over at DIA from your original destination, plus the whole boarding, flying, landing and unloading process, it would surely be well over an hour.
So, lessons learned: plan flor glitches — and remember, it never hurts to mention where you're staying when you're talking to a car rental company.
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