Ryanair - Eurotrip - 8 days, 6 cites, 6 countries! total flights cost: £75

Incapuppy

pelirocco wrote: »

Will you get chance to see anything? , apart from the inside of airports !

Yes, would not be my idea of fun in the least, but each to their own, it wouldn't do for us all to like the same.

Good luck with your trip OP.

DUKE

Sounds great - enjoy! If I had the energy I'd do it myself

monsta2005

pankotek wrote: »

Maybe we're crazy but our Eurotrip is booked! 8 days,6 flights, 6 cites, 6 countries!
29.05 - London - Baden-Baden (Germany) flight price: £9
30.05 - Baden-Baden - Budapest (Hungary) £5
31.05 - Budapest - Venice (Italy ) £5
1.06 - Venice - Barcelona (Spain) £25
2.06 - Barcelona -> Porto (Portugal ) £10
4.06 - Porto - London ( UK ) £ 21

Total flights cost: £75

Start on 29.05
All flights with Ryanair. Paid Ryanair Cash Passport.

Brilliant. Been Trying to sort something similiar out for myself, but lacked patience to wait till late-may to get better flight deals. Only Budapest on my list...for next week....not sure after.

Vikki_74

I'm intrigued to know how you put something like this together - just using the Flightchecker or something similar and a lot of patience or is there a site which shows all flights under say £10 so you can work out the cheapest connections? What you're doing is a bit too hectic for my liking but I would be interested on doing something on a smaller scale.

Well done on your bargains anyway and hope you enjoy the trip!

inflationbusting

Don't mean to !!!! on the parade here, but can you actually tell me what would happen if the first flight out is cancelled? Or, say, if one of the middle legs are cancelled such as VCE-BCN?

Ryanair would put you on the next one, but some of those routes are only flying a few times per week, so it would be too late to get the connections. Also, they wouldn't care about your future travel plans. If VCE-BCN was cancelled, your next flight would be on the VCE-BCN two days later, too late to make it onto the connection. There is no way they would give you a VCE-STN ticket, even though that would be the most convenient, and you'd be forced to buy a ticket at the prevailing rates.

Yes, the risk is miniscule but something novice travellers should be aware of. A cancellation could leave you out of pocket to the tune of hundreds of pounds with no recourse to claim anything back.

miamoo

I would book all my hotels direct (or with a booking site where you pay on arrival) and only on fully refundable rates, so if a flights cancelled it wont affect your travel plans too much. You could always stay on an extra night, fly somewhere else etc that way.
I would love to do something similar

inflationbusting

'fly somewhere else'? OK - you can do that, but it'll cost you several times the cost of the entire flights.

Like I said, if one of the flights in the middle gets cancelled, Ryanair won't care about your onward connections - their responsibility is just to get you to the destination you paid for. And that might be too late to catch the rest of your flights.

If that happens, you'll have a choice: either buy a flight and skip one of the destinations, or return home. Either way, you'll have to buy a last minute ticket from the Ryanair desk and that will be extremely expensive and painful. Especially more so if your primary reason to go on this trip is because you needed to save money.

Also, some of the sightseeing potential is dubious. For example, you'll get into Budapest at 7pm - by the time you reach the town - assuming you take the bus/metro to save cash it'll be after 8pm. The flight the next day leaves at around 2pm so necessitates a departure of at least 12pm, maybe before.

Like I said earlier, the connecting flights are extremely important, I wouldn't like to risk public transport failure making me late for any reason.

I've done this type of trip before when Ryanair flights were regularly free/£1.....the sightseeing stuff is my own personal opinion - not enough time to see the city. It can be done, but you probably will end the trip more tired than you started. Trust me.

My primary concern is the potential for a large liability in case a cancellation happened. The chance is very small, but perhaps it might be good for the OP to have acknowledged it - perhaps they can tell us a way to insure against it?

If you want to do this type of trip, there is a lot of trial and error involved - the schedule is largely dictated when the cheap flights are. Oslo-Rygge and Frankfurt-Hahn are good outs for the first leg as it is usually always cheap to fly there and there are a lot of onward destinations to choose from.