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8 Days In Europe
Mon, 03/15/2010 - 08:30
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Hello,
We have reached the pivotal moment for summer 2010. I plan on booking this trip this week and I want your advice before I click purchase.
Here’s the plan..
I will start my journey in Barcelona. There, I’ll meet up with family for a few days before flying up to Amsterdam. In Amsterdam, I will be there for about 2 1/2 days before heading to London for a 30 hour or so layover before flying back to the states.
I found a deal on British Airways for flights to come out to about $1450. Also, do you think the iternary is too adventures? Barcelona should not be a problem for lodging, but thinking of doing a hostel in Amsterdam & London (London I could also do a hotel room at the very least).
Do you think this is a good deal? Should I book it?
Does your ticket include the flight to Amsterdam and the London layover? If so, IMHO that’s not bad, but I hope others offer their two cents.
I guess it’s a lot of flying around and time in airports, but if those are your choices of destinations, it works for me. Maybe you could skip the lodging in London and just have a really good dinner then snooze in the airport.
Assuming that’s $1450 USD, that could be too much for airfare. Where will you start from? It seems like just an open-jaw (multi-city) flight arriving BCN and return from LON, with low-cost flight hop BCN>AMS ($60?) and Eurostar train or flight AMS>LON (another $60?). Feel free to post your flight questions on our cheap flights forum next-door.
The trip is an open jaw. Right now, the $1450 USD includes all the fights— arriving into LHR connecting to BCN >>> BCN to AMS >>> AMS to London and London back to the states. There’s a direct flight to LHR on BA from my hometown in the western half of the US. All of the flights are connections— with the first being in LHR, the second at London City and third — well that would be a layover in LHR for 24 hours.
However, I’m getting nervous with my iternary as it is a lot of traveling the last part of the my 8 days that I’m overseas. While I would love to visit London, would spending less than 24 hours there be a relaxing and worth while experience? Another idea that I have had floating around would be to stay in Amsterdam for an extra day and take a train trip to Brussels or some other fairly close city for a day.
What are your thoughts on this?
If you want to book and be done with it I understand, but $1450 could be awfully high, depending on what unnamed western U.S. city you’re flying from.
8 days = Transatlantic flight + connection to Barcelona + flight to Amsterdam + flight to London (when train is actually faster…) +24 hours in London (what fun!) + transatlantic flight home = NIGHTMARE EUROTRIP
It works and $1450 is probably a reasonable price, but why would you want to do it?