Posted in Budget, Cheap Activities, Drink, Europe, Food, Free Stuff, Lodging, Museums, Public Transport, Spain, Travel, Web Tips, tagged Barcelona, Girona, Madrid, Valladolid on 15 May 2008 | No Comments »
A nine-day trip to four Spanish cities, including airfare to/from the UK, for under 150 euros? I’ll show you how after the jump.
Posted in Airlines, Europe, South America, Travel, Web Tips, tagged Air France, Azul Airlines, EasyJet, mobile phone, RyanAir, technology on 14 May 2008 | No Comments »
Azul Airlines, a low-cost Brazilian airline initiative led by JetBlue founder David Neeleman, will begin flying early 2009. Two good links with more information are Azul Airlines Unveiled (CNBC video) or Jet Blue founder David Neeleman sees big potential for his new Brazilian airline (IHT article).
EasyJet is advertising a service for business travelers that [...]
Posted in Airlines, Europe, Information, Insurance, Travel, United Kingdom on 13 May 2008 | No Comments »
A question on the WARNING: RyanAir Online Check-in thread had me scoping out the insurance policy on offer from the airline when you purchase your ticket. It was there I made the following discoveries:
+ Despite the fact that travel insurance is offered with every RyanAir ticket, only UK and IE residents are actually [...]
Posted in Airports, Cheap Activities, Europe, Free Stuff, Internet Access, Luggage, Museums, Public Transport, Rail, Travel, United Kingdom, Web Tips, tagged day trips, London, Stansted on 7 May 2008 | No Comments »
An unfortunate scenario: you’ve booked yourself on two low-cost flights connecting at London Stansted airport and find yourself with an entire day to kill between them.
Common sense dictates that if you’ve got less than four hours between arrival and the next two-hour check-in window, you simply stay put. There are plenty of restaurants [...]
Posted in Airports, Europe, Germany, Spain, Travel, United Kingdom on 6 May 2008 | 4 Comments »
Berlin Schoenefeld (DE)
PAN: airport design — both to the gate and from the plane — incorporates too many staircases without escalators or lifts, inconveniencing travelers with rolling suitcases, strollers, and mobility problems. Have their architects never flown before?
London Stansted (UK)
PICK: the airport has created a “security repacking area” at the end of [...]
Posted in Airlines, Europe, Information, Luggage, Packing, Travel, Web Tips, tagged correction, musical instruments, reader questions, RyanAir, traveler rights on 5 May 2008 | No Comments »
First up this Monday is musician Marie from Canada, who is trying to fly on RyanAir with two violins and a guitar. She writes,
Hi, I’ve been trying to talk to someone from Ryan Air for the past 3 weeks and it’s impossible! My question is about carrying musical instruments in the cabin. They [...]
Posted in Airports, Cheap Activities, City Tips, Europe, Free Stuff, Museums, Online Media, Public Transport, Rail, Travel, United Kingdom, Web Tips, tagged London, Stansted Airport on 30 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
Getting to and from Stansted Airport Cheaply
If you want to save money on airport transportation, moral of the story is: BOOK EARLY and ONLINE.
Absolute cheapest when booked in advance is easyBus, where you can snag fares as low as £4 each way (plus 25p booking fee). Since planning for my own trip, they [...]
Posted in Budget, Cheap Activities, Europe, Free Stuff, Travel, United Kingdom, tagged London on 28 April 2008 | 7 Comments »
Another five days in London, including flights to/from Berlin, once again cost me under £100. How did I do it? I lay my budget bare and reveal the winner of the Reader Tips contest for London after the jump.
Posted in Airports, Europe, Information, Travel, United Kingdom, tagged Cornwall, fees, Ireland, Newquay on 20 April 2008 | 6 Comments »
A short warning from the road for anyone who may be considering booking cheap flights to Cornwall: the Newquay airport charges an extra £5 tax on departures which is 1) neither included in your ticket price 2) nor avoidable, as you must present your paid receipt in order to go through security. The [...]
Posted in Airlines, City Tips, Contest, Europe, France, Germany, Online Media, Public Transport, Sale, Travel, USA, Web Tips, tagged Berlin, daylight savings time, open skies, strike, travvies on 31 March 2008 | No Comments »
Happy Monday! Lots of news and updates since my last roundup post.
First, Europe changed their clocks on Sunday — I meant to blog about this before any of you could have missed your flights, buses, cruises, trains, breakfasts, what have you . . . Due to a U.S. law passed in 2005, neither [...]
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