This is a warning to anyone tempted by the low fairs Spirit Airlines offer. You pay an initial low fare, but the additional fees for everything will make the flight much more expensive than taking another airline. If your bag is a couple pounds over 40 lbs, $90 extra. Do you want to make sure your family sits together? $15 additional per seat. We paid around $200 for our checked luggage, then had to pay an additional $90 because my bag was 45 lbs. Their max is 40. Lines took forever and we got stuck in security. We made it to the gate while the door was still opened, but they shut it with us standing there boarding passes in hand. They didn't care. "Sorry, you'll have to rebook". No more available flights to Ft. Lauderdale that day which means we were going to miss our cruise ship. Meanwhile, our luggage was on the plane without us on it's way to Ft. Lauderdale. Thanks to Southwest, we found a flight to make our ship, but we couldn't get anyone from Spirit on the phone in Ft. Lauderdale to see about getting our luggage which was only 30 minutes away from the port. No one answered, no one cared. We made our cruise, but without our luggage. I contacted Spirit Airlines when we got back and explained the situation.
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