Posted in Automobiles, Belgium, Carnivals, Cheap Activities, Currency, Europe, France, Guidebooks, Italy, Lodging, Photos, Shopping, Slovenia, Spain, Travel, United Kingdom, Web Tips, tagged Bank of America, Brussels, Cannes, Eastern Europe, Florence, Girona, Pisa, Travelodge on 7 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
Welcome to the fourth Travel on a Shoestring Carnival for Europe. Here you’ll find European travel tips for those without a lot of money to spend.
Photographic inspiration this week comes from yours truly, with a sloping street view of flowering balconies, rain-slicked cobblestones and lush wisteria growing over ancient stone walls captured in Girona, Spain in April.
Andrew Evans reminds us of the [...]
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Posted in Airlines, Canada, Cheap Activities, Information, Internet Access, Luggage, Online Media, Packing, Public Transport, Rail, Sale, Travel, USA, United Kingdom, Web Tips, tagged American Airlines, Greyhound, Network Rail on 25 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
Planes, trains and automobiles! We’ve got it all in this week’s news roundup.
Traveling around the UK over a bank holiday weekend can lead to major delays on public transportation, warns Pam Kent of the IHT Globespotters Blog. In a recent post (inspired by tomorrow’s holiday), she notes,
Network Rail, the government body that looks [...]
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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 [...]
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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 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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Per yesterday’s post, I’m off in April for my first trip to Spain and have tied in time in gateway country England as well. That’ll be 4.5 days in London, .5 days passing through Valladolid to Madrid (unless someone argues I should spend more time there), 4 days in Madrid, 3.5 days in Barcelona, [...]
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Posted in Asia, Australia, Budget, Canada, Cheap Activities, Drink, Europe, Free Stuff, Germany, Travel, USA, United Kingdom, Web Tips on 12 March 2008 | 4 Comments »
While passing through the “Czech Republic,” I picked up a flier (similar to this one) targeted at German tourists on breweries in the Plzen region. (If you’re a beer drinker, you are certainly familiar with the anglicized name of their traditional beer, pilsener.) While the vast majority of beer consumed is today produced [...]
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