Low cost flights - hardly!
Last night I spent the evening researching my flights to Salzburg in Austria for a week skiing next month.
All of the so called ‘cheap flights’ left from Stansted at silly times of day and night - then charged extra for check-in, for luggage, for taxes and for letting you stand in a queue to board the plane! (I bet they have coin slots on the toilet doors on the aircraft). On average the return fare worked out at about £320.
Changing tack I decided to check out flights to Munich and found a Lufthansa return flight from Heathrow (so much easier to get to) at very sensible times of departure for £182 inclusive of everthing. And it will only cost me an extra ten Euro to get to my hotel in the Tyrol than it would from Salzburg. What a bargain!
Some of the scenes in The Living Daylights with James Bond in his Aston Martin V8 were filmed around the Tyrol - and some of the places I visited in Morocco were also used as locations in the film. Cool.
January 17th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
We’re planning to drive down to Morzine at the end of next week for a week of skiing (or snowboarding if the snow conditions stay good).
The MGA is going to (hopefully) make the trip with a couple of snowboards secured to the boot rack like upside-down spoilers. Should be a lark, though I’ll be upset if I overheat an overdrive unit like last time. Our total cost will probably be a little more and it’s take longer, though not enough to demonstrate 50 years of progress.