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| # Posted 2008-06-03 00:03:52 | |
| j-man: | I am flying Boston/Vienna/Stockholm/Boston for ~$1290 or so.
Prague/Oslo seemed much more expensive. |
| # Posted 2008-06-03 00:37:17 | |
| jtorranc: | If I go with the current best option I see, which involves starting back from O-ringen by flying out of Vasteras instead of Oslo, it seems the whole DC-Dublin-Prague-Oslo-Vasteras-London-Dublin-New York-Baltimore routing will cost ~$1500. Maybe you'll be shelling out a bit more on ground transport here and there than I will given the Boston and Vienna choices but, in any case, I'd be surprised given my experience if you could have done much better without huge flexibility in your travel dates. Or perhaps great confidence you'd make the WOC team and/or willingness to vacation in Central Europe whether you did or not so you could have bought tickets months ago. |
| # Posted 2008-06-03 00:47:56 | |
| j-man: | I will actually be living in Boston staring next week, so that dictated part of the itinerary.
I must disclose that the full trip is Boston-Munich-Vienna and then Vienna-Stockholm and then Stockholm-Chicago-Boston. Are you making the intermediate stops intentionally or for cost savings? For me, the Munich/Chicago thing was entirely instrumental--non-stop was a non-starter. |
| # Posted 2008-06-03 01:11:11 | |
| AndyB: | Watch it if you are getting a rental car in Vienna, I was on holiday there and they were insistent that their cars were never to head East! |
| # Posted 2008-06-03 01:24:29 | |
| j-man: | Those Austrians are so uptight! I'll just tell them I am going to Prague, which they will have to admit is actually NW of Vienna, and therefore must be OK. |
| # Posted 2008-06-03 01:45:09 | |
| jtorranc: | Stops en route long enough to enjoy, to the extent such occur, are going to be a byproduct rather than a goal. Unless I decide to pay more in order to fly out of Oslo on my way home after all in order to spend that day there rather than getting from Salen to Vasteras to London to Dublin. Although the timing on that looks a bit tight for making the flight onwards to the US in Dublin - life would be easier if all of Ryanair's flights operated every day. |
| # Posted 2008-06-03 02:08:11 | |
| j-man: | As long as you stay away from Stansted.
Ryanair and Stansted... the combination makes travel by dhow so much more attractive. |
| # Posted 2008-06-03 04:15:23 | |
| jtorranc: | I did Ryanair through Stansted on the way to Aarhuus. It was hellish but in ways easily blamed on the massive storm outside delaying or causing the cancellation of all the evening's flights.
The Vasteras-London link would involve Stansted. However, figuring out whether the links, including ground transport, will all work is giving me enough of a headache I think I may opt to fly back starting from Oslo at slightly greater expense after all. |
| # Posted 2008-06-04 03:56:39 | |
| jtorranc: | Update: I simplified my ground transport situation in Scandinavia at the expense of greater monetary expense - I believe the total now comes to $1660. Always assuming I make all my connections - I'm flying to Prague on one ticket and then to Oslo directly but I'm flying with three airlines on three different tickets to get home. Connection times are reasonably generous and none of them involve ground transfers between different airports but I really hope Europe has good weather and no other significant causes of flight delays or cancellations on July 26th. |
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