{"id":5543,"date":"2021-05-01T22:59:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T14:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/?p=5543"},"modified":"2021-10-17T01:57:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T17:57:31","slug":"20210501miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/01\/20210501miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Trip to Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

A post about my day trip to Miami by plane in May 2021, when I visited Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, together with Miami\u2019s Bayside Marina and South Bay.<\/p>\n

\"Sailboat<\/a>

<\/br>Sailboat before Miami Skyline<\/p><\/div>\n

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Early March 2021, when the entire aviation industry in US was reeling from the impact of COVID amid historically low travel seasons, they unleashed ridiculously low prices to lure travelers back. One of which I found was this return trip from Baltimore to Miami within a same Saturday with Frontier Airlines, for 49.32 dollars total. The flight would land in Miami at 9am, and return at 9pm, giving me a solid 12 hours to explore the city of Miami that I just skimmed through two years ago. It also gave me a chance to try out those ULCC 28-inch-pitch seats that were universally despised online. So without much hesitancy, I grabbed it.<\/p>\n

As a sidenote, I first purchase a similar ticket to Boston with Spirit Airlines, thinking blossoming spring flowers were much more welcoming than sizzling heat in Miami. It\u2019s also a shorter flight. Unfortunately Spirit Airlines later cancelled all direct flights between Baltimore and Boston, giving me the backup option to transfer at Orlando, which I expectedly cancelled.<\/p>\n

As a second sidenote, both Spirit and Frontier Airlines were baiting travelers with coupon codes that were 70-90 percent off. Usually they were very restrictive (direct flight, weekday, roundtrip…)<\/span>, but in pandemic times they were more frequent than ever. For my particular flight, the published “Airfare” was only 0.48 dollars, in addition to a 48.84 dollars “Taxes and Carrier-Imposed Fees”. Some anatomy later and one would find “Carrier-Imposed Fees”, which most airlines in US didn’t charge, was 20 dollars, which the coupon didn’t apply.
\nAnd Miami had one of their lowest “Carrier-Imposed Fees”, helping me deciding on destinations.<\/p>\n

As a final note, since I was traveling alone and terrible at packing, it’s sad that I couldn’t try out the water activities and beaches that Miami was known for. Beachwear was just logistically challenging for someone like me. So, I ended up visiting museums like Vizcaya for most of the day.<\/p>\n