Preparing for round 2...

jonskilly · Post #1 » by **jonskilly** » Fri May 1, 2009 5:20 am

I live in NJ and was able to catch game 4 in Philly. Now that the Magic are in the second round, I'm trying to prepare a small trip. If Boston wins the series, Orlando will be at home (I'm guessing on Saturday). I found a roundtrip ticket to ORL for $200... about how far is the arena from the airport? Any suggestions on a good value hotel for one night? I can only afford to take a minitrip over the weekend so if Boston doesn't win... I'll be trying to book a flight out to Chi-town!

Nemesis21 · Post #2 » by **Nemesis21** » Fri May 1, 2009 5:24 am

Arena is about 15-20 mins from airport, depends on how you are getting there ie. cab, renting a car. go on hotels.com for hotel

Viper1500 · Post #3 » by **Viper1500** » Fri May 1, 2009 5:30 am

Loyal fan right there, Ill also be at the first game too, 3rd if its vs Boston.

AgEnT50 · Post #4 » by **AgEnT50** » Fri May 1, 2009 5:39 am

i'm planning on going to every home game the rest of the way

AgEnT50 · Post #5 » by **AgEnT50** » Fri May 1, 2009 5:46 am

Airport is about 20...25 mins depending on trf(15 if i'm driving lol). Just take the Bee-Line to the Turnpike to I-4, or you can take the 417 to the East-West.

I'm sure you can find a good deal on Expedia or Hotels.com

I believe tickets go on sale either sat(or sun) .. . .not sure. But if we end up playing the C's I would recommend buying them as soon as possible from ticketmaster. Scaplers are going to be charging 2/3x the face value of the tix. Especially lower bowl seats.

LBPTarHeel27 · Post #6 » by **LBPTarHeel27** » Fri May 1, 2009 5:48 am

Nemesis21 wrote:Arena is about 15-20 mins from airport, depends on how you are getting there ie. cab, renting a car. go on hotels.com for hotel

It also depends on traffic. 15-20 min is the absolute fastest any human being could get there by any means of transportation yet to be discovered. Orlando is a b!t<h to navigate through. There is no good way to get anywhere from the hours of 7:25 AM - 9:20 AM + 3:45 PM - 6:40 PM.

Assuming you are staying at a hotel near the airport and a game would start at 7:30 PM...and you are coming from out of state, so you would likely want to get there before the doors even open....

Game Starts: 7:30 PM
Doors Open: 6:00 PM (I believe they open 1:30 min early for playoff games - regular season is 1:00)
Pre-game Festivities: 5:00 PM
Leave Hotel: 4:15 PM
Pre-Pre-Game Cordials: 12 PM - 4:14 PM

That equates to a successful road trip.

Nemesis21 · Post #7 » by **Nemesis21** » Fri May 1, 2009 6:02 am

LBPTarHeel27 wrote:
Nemesis21 wrote:Arena is about 15-20 mins from airport, depends on how you are getting there ie. cab, renting a car. go on hotels.com for hotel

It also depends on traffic. 15-20 min is the absolute fastest any human being could get there by any means of transportation yet to be discovered. Orlando is a b!t<h to navigate through. There is no good way to get anywhere from the hours of 7:25 AM - 9:20 AM + 3:45 PM - 6:40 PM.

Assuming you are staying at a hotel near the airport and a game would start at 7:30 PM...and you are coming from out of state, so you would likely want to get there before the doors even open....

Game Starts: 7:30 PM
Doors Open: 6:00 PM (I believe they open 1:30 min early for playoff games - regular season is 1:00)
Pre-game Festivities: 5:00 PM
Leave Hotel: 4:15 PM
Pre-Pre-Game Cordials: 12 PM - 4:14 PM

That equates to a successful road trip.

that is with me driving

NEM · Post #8 » by **NEM** » Fri May 1, 2009 6:17 am

i have been to every home playoff game thus far (1, 2, 5) and im planning on going to every home game the rest of the way.

MagicFan32 · Post #9 » by **MagicFan32** » Fri May 1, 2009 6:32 am

I want Chicago to win, not because I'm afraid of Boston but because I want home court, Without KG i fully believe we can beat Boston. Chicago is a dangerous team because of Rose and Gordon

After the way the guys rose up late in the sixers series I think we can get to the conference finals and we have played the Cavs well this year

AgEnT50 · Post #10 » by **AgEnT50** » Fri May 1, 2009 6:33 am

RawLewD12 wrote:i have been to every home playoff game thus far (1, 2, 5) and im planning on going to every home game the rest of the way.

which game was the loudest in your opinion?

I only had a chance to go to game # 2 last series

drsd · Post #11 » by **drsd** » Fri May 1, 2009 6:57 am

LBPTarHeel27 wrote:Orlando is a b____ to navigate through. There is no good way to get anywhere from the hours of 7:25 AM - 9:20 AM + 3:45 PM - 6:40 PM.

Compared to most cities in the world, Orlando is a total breeze. It is mostly a grid system, except around lakes. And traffic jams are not catastrophic.

To me the only thing is the geographical distance of the greater Orlando area. One can have an hour and a half car ride simply because two things are 60 miles apart

Shady Franchise · Post #12 » by **Shady Franchise** » Fri May 1, 2009 7:35 am

jonskilly wrote:I live in NJ and was able to catch game 4 in Philly. Now that the Magic are in the second round, I'm trying to prepare a small trip. If Boston wins the series, Orlando will be at home (I'm guessing on Saturday). I found a roundtrip ticket to ORL for $200... about how far is the arena from the airport? Any suggestions on a good value hotel for one night? I can only afford to take a minitrip over the weekend so if Boston doesn't win... I'll be trying to book a flight out to Chi-town!

So just to make sure you want to catch a game 4 vs either chicago or boston????? Then you make sense, otherwise, its the othe way around and boston has HC, and chicago doesn't But I bet I'm reading this wrong............Go Magic haha!

drsd · Post #13 » by **drsd** » Fri May 1, 2009 8:00 am

When is game 1? Maybe it depends on which team wins games 7: Chi-town or Bean-town.

MagicBasketba11 · Post #14 » by **MagicBasketba11** » Fri May 1, 2009 8:00 am

AgEnT50 wrote:
RawLewD12 wrote:i have been to every home playoff game thus far (1, 2, 5) and im planning on going to every home game the rest of the way.

which game was the loudest in your opinion?

I only had a chance to go to game # 2 last series

i went to game 1 and it was pretty loud but i don't think games 1 or 2 can compare to 5. people were sayin that was the loudest the o-rena's been since the 90's

jonskilly · Post #15 » by **jonskilly** » Fri May 1, 2009 10:54 am

Shady Franchise wrote:
jonskilly wrote:I live in NJ and was able to catch game 4 in Philly. Now that the Magic are in the second round, I'm trying to prepare a small trip. If Boston wins the series, Orlando will be at home (I'm guessing on Saturday). I found a roundtrip ticket to ORL for $200... about how far is the arena from the airport? Any suggestions on a good value hotel for one night? I can only afford to take a minitrip over the weekend so if Boston doesn't win... I'll be trying to book a flight out to Chi-town!

So just to make sure you want to catch a game 4 vs either chicago or boston????? Then you make sense, otherwise, its the othe way around and boston has HC, and chicago doesn't But I bet I'm reading this wrong............Go Magic haha!

I want to catch whatever game falls on the weekend! lol

CourtsideTV · Post #16 » by **CourtsideTV** » Fri May 1, 2009 1:28 pm

airport is 18 minute from the arena door to door. you probably want to priceline or hotwire your hotel/car.

Post #17 » by **SS_MagicMark** » Fri May 1, 2009 1:31 pm

Too bad our season was over after Game 3.

jonskilly · Post #18 » by **jonskilly** » Fri May 1, 2009 1:40 pm

How much are lower bowl tickets? I got my sixers/magic tickets for face value on lower level, 3rd row. $80. is that around the same price?

Edrock · Post #19 » by **Edrock** » Fri May 1, 2009 2:08 pm

MagicBasketba11 wrote:i went to game 1 and it was pretty loud but i don't think games 1 or 2 can compare to 5. people were sayin that was the loudest the o-rena's been since the 90's

Mostly because of the officiating... I think the loudest the arena got was during the "REFS YOU SUCK" chants...

jonskilly · Post #20 » by **jonskilly** » Fri May 1, 2009 3:08 pm

If Boston ends up winning tomorrow, how do you guys think the series will scheduled?

Game 1 @ BOS Tues
Game 2 @ BOS Thurs
Game 3 @ ORL Sat
Game 4 @ ORL Mon

Sound about right? Trying to figure out which home game I would buy since we won't have the schedule until after tickets are on sale already.