Cheap Travel on Easy Jet

You want to get away during the winter. You don't necessarily want to go to a ski resort, but you want to travel in Europe in the Fall and Winter. First of all, good job! You should be able to find much better fares than people who can only travel in the summer (HIGH price season). You also may get some of the best weather, actually. That's right! Instead of hitting Athens in the middle of July and temperatures pushing up even into the 100's, you might catch it during a week of beautiful fall or winter weather that will neither freeze or cook you.

Speaking of Athens, let's look at some CHEAP TRAVEL to Athens! I wanted to look at Easy Jet in particular, maybe in honor of a friend of mine who is flying Easy Jet today. Though they don't have as many flights during the winter season, they have quite a few more than some of their competitors and keep many of their destinations going year-round. If you are coming from the US, you can just use London as a gateway city and then hook up with some of the discount airlines that are available in Europe. Easy Jet flies to Athens out of Gatwick.

Let's assume you are in a hurry. I wouldn't recommend buying tickets on Easy Jet too late because the cheap tickets may be sold out. Cheap travel is often all about timing. In a quick cursory look today, there are flights from London to Athens every day and usually there are two! So to grab some dates, let's try later in November. The site is friendly for moving days backward or forward, so you can find the cheapest dates that work for you.

In this case, Thursday, November 17 has a flight available for EUR 55.91 leaving at 1:55 p.m. and arriving at 7:30 p.m. So no early morning or late night required. Nice. Return trip to London (four days just seems like a nice weekend jaunt) on Monday, Nov. 21 is only 97 EUR and looks like the cheapest right now (it says last seat at that price!).

So simple math would say the ticket is 152.90 EUR and I do keep checking to make sure the price isn't in British pounds because this price seems too good to be true! Oh wait, do you want to take a bag? Let's say "Yes." OK. Add 34 Euro's! Wow, I better bring some pretty nice stuff with me in that bag. 20 kilograms allowed (44 pounds) and the site is bragging that if I pay the 34 EUR now it's half price for the bag! 68 EUR at the airport? Hmmmm. I'm up to 186.90 now! Still under 200, so I'm feeling ok. So we go on through the hotel and rental car page (rent a car from Gatwick?). And I click to purchase. What?!? Why does it now say 202.90?!? Hmm. Small print, get out the reading glasses. Because I am paying with my credit card the price is now almost 203 EUR instead of 187. It's only 197 if I pay with a debit card. The quoted price is only if I have a Visa "electron" card, which I apparently don't have (and would venture to guess most normal travelers don't!). So we got tagged for another 15 EUR or 10 EUR if we put it on our debit card. Maybe this doesn't bother you. I would just as soon they charge the fee up front. I suppose if I had a Visa Electron card I would feel smug and happy about this rule.

Still, from one end of Europe to the other (granted it's the West side to the South side), I think that 203 EUR for a London Athens round-trip flight qualifies as Cheap Travel in Europe. Don't you?

Cheap Travel on Easy Jet

You want to get away during the winter. You don't necessarily want to go to a ski resort, but you want to travel in Europe in the Fall and Winter. First of all, good job! You should be able to find much better fares than people who can only travel in the summer (HIGH price season). You also may get some of the best weather, actually. That's right! Instead of hitting Athens in the middle of July and temperatures pushing up even into the 100's, you might catch it during a week of beautiful fall or winter weather that will neither freeze or cook you.

Speaking of Athens, let's look at some CHEAP TRAVEL to Athens! I wanted to look at Easy Jet in particular, maybe in honor of a friend of mine who is flying Easy Jet today. Though they don't have as many flights during the winter season, they have quite a few more than some of their competitors and keep many of their destinations going year-round. If you are coming from the US, you can just use London as a gateway city and then hook up with some of the discount airlines that are available in Europe. Easy Jet flies to Athens out of Gatwick.

Let's assume you are in a hurry. I wouldn't recommend buying tickets on Easy Jet too late because the cheap tickets may be sold out. Cheap travel is often all about timing. In a quick cursory look today, there are flights from London to Athens every day and usually there are two! So to grab some dates, let's try later in November. The site is friendly for moving days backward or forward, so you can find the cheapest dates that work for you.

In this case, Thursday, November 17 has a flight available for EUR 55.91 leaving at 1:55 p.m. and arriving at 7:30 p.m. So no early morning or late night required. Nice. Return trip to London (four days just seems like a nice weekend jaunt) on Monday, Nov. 21 is only 97 EUR and looks like the cheapest right now (it says last seat at that price!).