Anyone familiar with the Gulfport area?

[smokeybandit]

First time JazzFester upcoming...

I safely have my flight to New Orleans, but don't have my return flight yet, and of course flight prices are overly bloated now.

There's a respectably priced flight from Gulfport, but I'd have to get there of course. A one-way car rental pretty much negates the price savings by going there. Greyhound has a bus that fits my schedule, but I'd have to get from the Gulfport bus station tot he airport.

Anyone familiar with taxi transportation from the bus station in Gulfport to the airport?

[MormonMatthew]

I am flying R/T from Salt Lake to Gulfport (it saved me nearly $250) and I already called a couple of local cab companies, who both said that the ride from GPT to the Greyhound station was around $15.

With that and the $18 bucks for the bus ride into downtown New Orleans, I am still saving a significant chunk o change, which will of course now go right into the ol' Grain-Based Beverage Fund, which always needs all the help it can get.....

Some very thoughtful Threadheads have offered to drop me off in Gulfport on their way back home to Atlanta after Jazzfest wraps up; apparently the airport is right off I-10.

[Delta]

You're maybe 5 miles from the bus station to the airport. Straight shot up 49 to airport rd, and Matthew is right, the airport is practically within sight of I-10. Since the bus station is in "downtown" G'port, I'd be very surprised if it was hard to get a cab. And I know this doesn't help you any, but the bus station is only about 2 blocks from the shrimp boat harbor, where we buy shrimp straight off the boats. They pull it out of the hold in plastic laundry baskets and weigh it out for you. You might get rocks or fish or sting rays or all sorts of non-shrimp stuff in it too, but the price is so much lower than anywhere else you just cull out the extraneous crap and toss it back. And the stop-and-rob across the street sells styrofoam coolers. Just in case. How handy.

[groovy1967]

I did this a couple of years ago, and it was rather painless and inexpensive.

The one thing you need to check is the Greyhound schedule because I believe there are only two buses per day.

[smokeybandit]

Thanks for the input.

Of course, the ticket I wanted, no sooner did I confirm with a friend he'd be in town to meet up with me during my long layover, the price of the flight went up $40, and 12 hours later was doubled to over $300.

I guess I'll keep hoping for last minute price drops.