![]() Don’t miss this little tidbit of information!īut make sure tidbits are not what you have eaten for breakfast or lunch. They will charge you at the airport if you fail to print your boarding passes. So board your bus, but make sure before you do, you print your boarding passes for your flights! Tip Seven: budget airlines ensure that boarding their planes are simple (if you have carry-on luggage and print!) so make sure you abide by it. You can make it and on-time with the convenient bus connections that are all detailed on your budget airline’s website when you book your flight. My point? Don’t let a distant airport discourage you. I took a bus for £14 round-trip that ran all night from central London. For me to get to Sweden I had to go to Stansted – no not the well-known Gatwick or Heathrow – airport. not the main hub) which leads to tip six: all of the budget airlines have websites for transport information to and from the random airports. These cheap flights usually fly in and out of distant airports (i.e. That done the next task is finding your flight. Get some culture and give your arms a rest. Yep those baggage checks are there for something. That bag plus the ticket is still cheaper than flying other commercial airlines, but if you can: ask a friend to store your stuff or ask if the hotel will keep it for a couple of days while you enjoy Europe.Īnd if you are trying to kill time from the British Airways flight until your cheap flight later in the day from another airport, tip five is: head into the city with Gatwick Express and check your luggage in a museum. ![]() Which leads to four which is: book the ticket even if you have to check a bag. black is easiest) so matching and mixing is easy, bring travel-size soaps and pack a small notebook rather than full-blown lap-top. To travel light a quick tip three is to: make sure you pack clothes all in one colour category (i.e. It would have cost me more to check a bag to Stockholm than checking myself in! £30 for my bag! The clothes can stay in London. Tip two is Ryanair and Easy Jet (two major budget, European airlines) charge for checked bags. I mean only ONE carry-on bag (and by one I mean no computer bar and purse combo. So tip one is: look at your self in the mirror and ask yourself: Can I really travel light? And I don’t mean one checked bag instead of two. Which brings me to my cheap trip column this week: traveling budget airlines (the only way to travel under $100 outside of Britain). And it is….but….butttttt well you read about my layering. For £20 or $47 I had a return flight (which takes about two hours one way) to Stockholm, Sweden. Yes I wrote that!īut Robyn, what about taxes? Ha. That’s because I had found a flight for £10 to Stockholm on budget, Ryanair’s website. The second? Well that one saw me sweating the small things (yes I even managed to fit my computer charger in my jacket) to board my flight to Stockholm, Sweden. Ok it was $130, but that was round-trip so really only $65 one-way! See I told you counting your miles can be helpful! The first? That was last week’s Frequent Flyer flight to London. ![]() Why? Because I’m currently based in London trying to find ten cheap trips (less than $100) from and in this city. For what? Well that’s what this week’s Rock Fever Column is about: Budget Airlines. Now I just had to overcome the heat and fainting feeling as I walked to immigration. My low-cost harasser told me I was free to board now that I weighed an extra kilo. Ten minutes later I exited wearing two pairs of pants, four shirts, two jackets and my camera stuffed in a jacket pocket. I looked around and saw others scampering through their bags trying to rearrange things. I don’t know check your bag? Put more clothes on?”
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