Learn how to customize your vacation, or view standard air routing and travel times. The choice is yours with our True Choice program.
Customize your trip
With our True Choice Program, you can choose to stay longer before or after your trip on your own, or combine two vacations to maximize your value. Here are more ways to create the Grand Circle vacation that’s right for you:
- Choose our standard air routing, or work with us to select the airline and routing you prefer
- Make your own international flight arrangements directly with the airline, applying frequent flyer miles if available
- Stay overnight in a connecting city before or after your trip
- Request to arrive a few days early to get a fresh start on your vacation
- Choose to “break away” before or after your trip, spending additional days or weeks on your own
- Extend your vacation with our optional pre- and post-trip extensions
- Combine your choice of Grand Circle vacations to maximize your value
- Upgrade to business or premium economy class
The air options listed above will involve an additional fee of $100 per person for confirmed requests (as well as incremental airfare costs based on your specific choice). This service fee will be waived for Inner Circle/Sir Edmund Hillary Club members.
Or, when you make your reservation, you can choose our standard air routing, for which approximate travel times are shown below.
Boston, Chicago, New York (JFK)
8hrs
Detroit, Philadelphia, Washington, DC (Dulles)
12hrs
Houston, Phoenix, Portland, OR, Seattle, Tampa
14hrs
Minneapolis, Newark
13hrs
* Estimated total time, including connection and layover. Actual travel time may vary.
The information above reflects approximate flight times from the gateway cities listed to Madrid, Spain. Routing is based on availability and subject to change. You will receive your final air itinerary approximately 14 days prior to departure.