Help with Later arrival and car rental suggestions (7 replies)

[Travel Guru]

Isn't it wonderful how these airlines seem to be jerking people around these days? AA advised us today that they have changed their flight schedules, so now MDW and I will be arriving in STT at 8:05pm instead of the earlier scheduled arrival of 3:30pm we had booked with them a month ago. Trying to get an earlier arrival with another airline would be a bit costly, so guess we're stuck with the best AA can offer.

We had been planning on getting a car rental at the airport and driving to Blue Beard Castle where we're staying for a week. But now am wondering what some experienced VINOW members might suggest -- would it be wise getting a car rental at the airport that time of night (assuming they would hold one for us) or would you suggest we take a taxi to the BBC and pick up the car rental the next day?

Appreciate any thoughts. This little hiccup in the road isn't going to impact our high expectations for a fabulous week there, but it has us starting out not as comfortable as we thought we'd be by arriving there in the afternoon.