- Cindi Villard
A Hop, Skip and a Nonstop from These Top 5 VIP Airports
Ready for an international getaway but tired of layovers to get there? Don’t scratch the idea of a unique destination off your bucket-list yet.
Is sitting in an airport wasting your vacation something you'd rather avoid?
Set intentions and standards to align with your travel style and save unwelcome anxiety or mishaps. Don’t trade your vacation excitement for the stress of missing a layover, book the nonstop.
Here are quick international nonstop getaways from Denver, Dallas, Houston, St Louis and Orlando, home airports to several of Summit to Sand’s top VIPs.
“Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.”
– Diogenes Laërtius
DENVER, CO
Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Flight time: About 2 1/2 hours
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - Flight time: About 3 hours
Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico - Flight time: About 3 hours
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico - Flight time: About 3 hours and 15 mins
Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico - Flight time: About 4 hours
Liberia, Guanacaste, Costa Rica - Flight time: About 5 hours
Panama City, Panama - Flight time: About 6 hours
Oahu, Maui and The Big Island of Hawaii - Flight time: About 7 1/2 hours
Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii - Flight time: About 7 hours and 45 mins
Keflavik, Iceland - Flight time: About 7 1/2 hours
Paris, France - Flight time: About 9 hours
To the Texas VIPs, the world is literally your oyster. Some of these flights may not be "quick" but you won't waste a second worried about a layover.
Dallas, TX
Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico - Flight time: About 2 1/2 hours
Belize City, Belize - Flight time: About 3 hours
Georgetown, Grand Cayman Island - Flight time: About 3 hours and 15 mins
Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Flight time: About 4 hours
Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands - Flight time: About 4 hours
San Juan, Puerto Rico - Flight time: About 4 1/2 hours
Keflavik, Iceland - Flight time: About 7 1/2 hours
Kahului, Maui, Hawaii - Flight time: About 8 hours and 15 mins
Madrid, Spain - Flight time: About 9 hours and 15 mins
Buenos Aires, Argentina - Flight time: About 10 1/2 hours
Houston, TX
Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico - Flight time: About 2 hours and 15 mins
Belize City, Belize - Flight time: About 2 1/2 hours
Liberia, Guanacaste, Costa Rica - Flight time: About 3 1/2 hours
Aruba and Bonaire Caribbean Netherlands - Flight time: Both about 3 hours and 45 mins
Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Flight time: About 4 hours
Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands - Flight time: About 4 hours
San Juan, Puerto Rico - Flight time: About 4 1/2 hours
Quito, Ecuador - Flight time: About 5 hours and 15 mins
Lima, Peru - Flight time: About 6 1/2 hours
Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii - Flight time: About 8 hours and 15 mins
Amsterdam, Netherlands - Flight time: About 9 1/2 hours
Frankfurt, Germany - Flight time: About 10 hours
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Flight time: About 10 hours 15 mins
Tokyo, Japan - Flight time: About 13 hours and 45 mins
Though there may not be many international nonstops, these are worth adding STL to the list!
St Louis
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Flight time: About 2 hours and 15 mins
Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico - Flight time: About 3 hours and 15 mins
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - Flight time: About 4 1/2 hours
Orlando, Florida
Nassau, The Bahamas - Flight time: About 1 hour and 15 mins (The Bahamas are open after Hurricane Dorian! With over 700 islands making up the archipelago, this Caribbean Country needs you to book that nonstop more than ever in support of helping rebuild economically.)
Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico - Flight time: About 2 hours
Montego Bay, Jamaica - Flight time: About 2 hours
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Flight time: About 2 1/2 hours
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Flight time: About 2 hours and 45 mins
San Juan, Puerto Rico - Flight time: About 3 hours
Aguadilla Pueblo, Puerto Rico - Flight time: About 3 hours
San Jose, Costa Rica - Flight time: About 3 hours and 15 mins
Keflavik, Iceland - Flight time: About 7 hours and 15 mins
London, England - Flight time: About 8 1/2 hours
Paris, France - Flight time: About 8 hours and 45 mins
Copenhagen, Denmark - Flight time: About 9 hours
A nonstop eliminates the opportunity for added airport stress to take over your vacation excitement. And remember with the airliners, the only constant is change, so be on the lookout for new stops and don’t be heartbroken if your ideal flight has been cancelled.
Exhausted just thinking about booking your next getaway? It’s time to take back control of your time off and experience a vacation the way they are meant to be.
You do the dreaming and let Summit to Sand handle the details. Your journey is unique, and we value each traveler’s different travel style while curating your dreams into memories that last a lifetime.
In love of travel,
Cindi Villard
Founder | Summit to Sand
"We are time's subjects and time bids be gone."
-William Shakespeare
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