Rastelin wrote on Apr 17
th, 2012 at 10:17am:
But on the other hand you can get dirt cheap (~20 euro) flights to a lot of places using ryanair and such. if anyone is near budapest from now til early summer, come say hi
Well there's that but between the time you waste reaching the airport, the security check, the nuisances, the flight delay, the check in, the flight, picking up The Luggage, commuting back to city...
When you jump in an Eurostar in Whatever train station they stop now in London and you're Gare du Nord 2 hours and half later., even at 50 Euros it's way better.... you can make the round trip in a day if you want with the train while you can't with the plane. ( oh and it probably works for London to Amsterdam too, maybe a little longer )
Well Marseille ( and the Mediteranean Sea is only 3 hours away from my home by train. [ I live near a railway station that has high speed trains stopping, near Paris ] )
But yes you can get dirt cheap flight with Ryanair, if you want to put up having to pay for the glass of water,, the cabin luggage, the other luggage, the peanuts, taking a piss in flight ( well not that one really, but they thought about it ), flying at odd hours and ending up in small airports far away from good transportation. ( some of their flights land in Beauvais, about 1h30 away from Paris, with next to no bus connection and no train connection. )