$101 flights to London from USA

Yes, it's true. There are 101 US Dollar flights out there from Boston to London! "Wow!" you say. "I can do that!" you say. Guess what, though? There aren't. Well, there are. But that is the base price. $568 and some change will pay the taxes and fees required to get an AIRLINE TICKET TO LONDON FOR $101. See how that works? You put the part of the information that seems interesting in capital letters and the rest of it in smaller letters and it looks like an amazing deal. This means that $678 will get you to London from Boston. This AMAZING DEAL is actually better than the one at which we were looking a couple weeks ago in a great article about cheap travel to Europe. It is exactly $21 better! Not much difference.

I'm actually very interested in cheap flights from Indianapolis, or other places in the mid-west. So KLM's flights from Indianapolis caught my eye. They are also advertised at amazing prices $252 dollars, I believe. However, there is one or ten more catches. Of course, the prices advertised are, for one, hard to find, and second without any taxes or fees added in. It is actually possible, however, in this case, to get pretty cheap travel from Indianapolis to London. There are flights in November available for 769 dollars round-trip on US Airways. These flights, connect through Charlotte and arrive into London Gatwick. This is a good airport as far as public transit in London is concerned, and will not require you to get an expensive bus or train like some of the outlying airports do (such as Luton and Stansted).

Does this meet your standard for cheap travel to Europe? I will let you decide. If you are headed farther into Europe, using London as a gateway city, you may decide that almost $800 is too much to get you to a place to "begin" your travels in Europe. If you are spending your time in London and going no farther, it might suit you. If you are going deeper into Europe (most of my friends are farther East, as well as cheap travel deals), you will want to keep in mind that at this point tickets from Indianapolis to Vienna are a good deal at $866 per person on United. Try to get from London to Vienna round-trip for 97 US Dollars, and you will probably barely cover your bus or taxi fare both ways to and from the airport! Happy travels and I wish you great success in finding cheap travel to Europe!

Cheap travel to Europe on a busy weekend

Hello again!

Just got back from a great trip to England. Of course I got some cheap airline tickets and basically stayed with friends for next to nothing.... I have also mentioned couchsurfing.com in the past for a way to stay cheap, though I found a place through friends of friends this time... Not to bore you about me, but I basically bought flights for the week I could go and found out later that the ROYAL WEDDING was that week! Why is this a big deal at all? Because conventional wisdom would say that cheap travel to Europe, especially London would be hard to find on such an occasion, right? Apparently wrong. Yes, I did buy my tickets about 2 months early and planned ahead a bit, but our flights weren't jam packed and I would venture to guess that cheap travel to Europe wasn't too big of a challenge last week. But maybe I'm just lucky--it only rained two days out of seven when I was in London!! It's not high season yet, so tickets were cheaper and it's a great gateway city, London. My main problem was finding decent meals and paying for public transportation in one of the most expensive cities in the world, not to mention that the dollar isn't exactly worth much these days against European currencies. My other big challenge was finding people who could speak English (I'm not joking!). One of the few people I spoke with whose native language was English, I really had a hard time understanding until I figured out that both three and four start with an "f" for him!! Overall, though, cheap travel to Europe and especially cheap travel in Europe is not too difficult to do. I flew no-frills and took my own water on board to avoid paying big money there, but hey, the bathrooms are still free! Although some airlines are talking about charging for them in the future, most notably Ryanair (super cheap travel within Europe). My friend just got a decent flight roundtrip in May and returning July, so there are still some tickets to be had if you follow the directions out there and on here about getting cheap travel to Europe.

New Deals Available!

Hello and Happy New Year!!

I have to say that I'm pretty excited because I am seeing a LOT of good deals on airline tickets that mean cheap travel to Europe! Yes, that's right. There are several airlines that are putting the pressure on their competitors to lower all prices in the area. As mentioned in an earlier post, the competition to get the few dollars (or EUROs) out there in a lean looking year may be fierce, which may be very good for us the customer. The first signs out of the new year are pretty good. Of course, it could go either way. Cheap travel to Europe could mean VERY CHEAP (let's take a weekend in Paris!) or it could start climbing again. We'll just have to see where it goes. But right now it looks good.

Right now, Iceland Express is breaking everybody else's--well prices with some flights from Newark to London for under $500 including taxes!! So I was pretty much not believing it myself. I mean this is the cheap travel to Europe that is really CHEAP. OK OK I'll spill the beans. It's on Iceland Express (just google it) and they have these cheap seats going from now to March 28 from Newark airport (I think it's kind of funny they refer to it as New York-Newark, which I know might get them beat up in some parts of the real New York ha ha!). Apparently it's not first class (oh my!) and some people complain about the planes being a bit older (no displays on the back of the seats, wha wha wha!). They have to pass regulations or they wouldn't be allowed to fly, and safety is not the issue on why they are cheaper. Apparently it's a few creature comforts. But I am assuming that if your butler is booking you on first and biz class, you've not even looked at this stuff, let alone are still reading. If you are, you better get to your squash tournament or make use of that country club membership, rather than wasting your time on some blog about Cheap Travel to Europe (ah the horror!!). So it looks like they fly Mondays and Fridays.

Looks like Chicago is on the way for them as a destination but it isn't here yet. Sadly. I think Iceland is a very intriguing place and not just because of the team from there on the mighty ducks movie (remember, Iceland is green and beautiful, Greenland is cold and icy?). So a stop-over might be an option, too which I think could add a lot of value to your cheap travel to Europe. If you are going for fun and to see as many places as possible, this will help you to do that. I also see though, that they are advertising to people stuck in Iceland who want to get out of there (like their pitch to get people to take a vacation in Orlando, Florida is all about going to a HOT destination).

Well, it usually only takes a couple of players like this to start to put the pressure on the bigger carriers to follow suit and lower their prices. It looks like the winter prices are (wait for the corny pun....) starting to thaw! Looks like this Spring the temps will be rising, but the airline prices won't (groan x2). Seriously, all puns aside, these are encouraging signs for those of us looking for cheap travel to (and from) Europe.

Cheap travel to Europe helpful sites

Hi again.

Hope you are having a great day and a great holiday season. In looking around at the internet, trying to find more and more ways for cheap travel to Europe I thought about the interesting fact that Europe has traditionally drawn the "backpacker crowd." I remember almost 20 years ago now, when I first set out for a summer in Europe. The plane was full of other young people who were excited about spending time in Europe. Maybe it was then that I first fell in love with the hobby of finding cheap travel to Europe and ever since have always had an eye out for a cheap transatlantic flight. I remember a couple of people on the plane who asked me if I was going to Spain. I didn't have that in the plan. They mentioned to me that they would be there during a certain month and they were staying in a community lodging situation and that I would be welcome. They also mentioned how they were going to a city and when I asked where they would stay there, they said "We don't know yet. But we've heard that if you ask around, somebody will help you and it's really easy to find cheap accommodations in Barcelona, so we are just going to find something between now and then. People do it all the time."

Since that time, I've grown up a lot and even though I am still on the hunt for cheap travel to Europe, I usually part ways with the "backpacker crowd" after we get off the plane. However, there are a couple websites that interest me that are more in the travel way of the good old days and I hope will be of help to anyone who is truly seeking cheap travel to Europe . One of them is pretty region specific and isn't in English, which I hope you can get around using an online translator. It's a Southeast Europe site called www.gorivo.com It's basically a car-pool site offering rides or asking for rides. It's in former Yugoslavian languages, so like I say I hope that doesn't deter you too much. The main djist would be something like: Zagreb-Frankfurt, Zagreb-Beograd (Belgrade) or Bec (Vienna) Rijeka. Usually you split the fuel and tolls, but sometimes it's a flat rate or free for the company or extra helping driver. Use an online translator like babelfish or google to see the specifics. BTW gorivo means "fuel" so if that explains anything.... So if you are looking for cheap travel in southeast Europe and don't mind riding with someone, gorivo.com. You can also post that you are driving and get someone to help you with the fuel and tolls. Hope it's helpful.

The other site isn't exactly just for cheap travel in Europe but will work anywhere and you have probably already heard about it, but just in case you haven't: www.couchsurfing.org. This one is all over the world and people just offer to host you so that they can make the world a better place (I guess). Often you can even get an insider's view of the city as they give you tour. This is a similar thing as gorivo.com to share resources, except you have to become a member and it would help to have a few nice reviews from friends. If you could ride with someone and then stay with someone, that will go a long way in making your travel in Europe cheap! Now if we can only get the airlines to all go in on we-got-an-extra-seat.com. Don't hold your breath!

A new definition of Cheap Travel to Europe

Is it a new era in Cheap Travel to Europe ? What I mean is this: Are my expectations too low (or is it "too high"? *smile*) I think it is a new day.

What I mean is this: In the good old days I wouldn't call something Cheap Travel to Europe unless I could get over to Europe for $600 or less. If it wasn't under this price, it wasn't cheap travel to Europe. It was something else. It was still usually a reasonable deal, but it wasn't CHEAP.

My most recent check was the closest I've come to reaching this price in the past few months. I looked at airberlin from JFK to Berlin and got it for March (20th through the 28th if you're interested) for just under 600... Euros. So I quickly did the currency conversion and since it takes 1.31 US dollars to make a filthy EURO, that put my price at over $780!! So maybe cheap travel to Europe needs to start meaning $800! The first task in finding cheap travel to Europe is getting there If that's the case, I guess I can go back through what I've found and I may realize that I have found Cheap Travel to Europe several times this year. I just didn't recognize it when I saw it. I was looking for the young cheap travel model that attracted me 10 years... OK, it's been more than 10 years ago (hey now, we're all getting older, right?). I was looking for that Cheap Travel to Europe to look just like she did back then. Well news flash. She doesn't. She's gotten a little bigger over the years. Can't tighten the belt like I used to be able to, you know? Hey, it's nobody's fault (well, oil prices haven't helped!). Cheap Travel to Europe isn't what it used to be. So if you are looking for summer travel, you might even want to put your sights on something around $1000 and change the rules to call that "cheap travel to Europe." Especially if you live left of the East Coast at all. Let's face it: these days cheap travel might be well over $1000 if you are going into the middle or east part of Europe from the middle or west part of US during the high season. So I guess it's only fair that the fare plus taxes (BTW September 11 fees don't help either!) is rising and I can't spend hours and hours looking for a $600 solution any more. It isn't a find, but more like a miracle. Cheap travel to Europe isn't as cheap as it used to be.