Book your summer Monterey trip now: $99 round trip on Allegiant Air

Among the handful of new recently announced Allegiant Air routes from LAX is this: Starting May 3, you can fly up to Monterey (MRY) with the Las Vegas-based airline. Forgoing the five-hour-plus slog on the road each way, you can opt for a trip of an hour and 15 minutes without paying an arm and a leg for it.

(For more on Allegiant Air’s new routes planned to/from our region, read “Allegiant Air to launch LAX service.”)

Nonstop flights between LAX and Monterey will be available Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. If you book a trip during the promotional period, you’ll pay $39 each way, before taxes and fees. The total I was given for a round trip in May was $99.

When: For the promotion rates, book by March 11 for travel between May 3 and Sept. 30, 2009. Blackout dates include May 22-25 and July 2-6.

Note: Book online. You’ll get charged an extra $13.50 for phone reservations, and Internet booking should be quicker. I tried calling in this morning and had to wait about 10 minutes to talk to someone.

Why go: Cannery Row. Kayaking. The Monterey Bay Aquarium (a blast at any time, but its additional summertime draws include its World Ocean Day Celebration, June 6-7). See more in L.A. Times article “Vacation highs and lows in Monterey, California.”

Why not: You don’t have the flexibility to travel on non-weekend days. You prefer the flexibility of having your own wheels and, besides, you like a good road trip.

More…details: Contact numbers for ground transportation are listed on the Monterey Peninsula Airport website. The airport is a 10-minute drive from Cannery Row.

Contact: Allegiant Air, (702) 505-8888

– Susan Derby, Special to the Los Angeles Times

[Photo: Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times]

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