Hi guys, what is the best European city to fly to from Au? Looking to do some sightseeing and travel further to other countries, thanks
Best European City to Fly to From Australia?
misialinac on 28/05/2017 - 11:23
Last edited 28/05/2017 - 12:08 by 1 other user
Last edited 28/05/2017 - 12:08 by 1 other user
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Thanks :)
Depends on where your departing from?
By best do you mean cheapest?
Or just the best city to visit?Starting in Melbourne, looking for most convenient place, price second
I'd be flying to where low cost carriers have hubs or focus cities and also nice places,
Barcelona Madrid Milan etc
Depends a lot on personal taste and what you want to do.
Europe is a very diverse, really depends what your into.
I'd check out Ryanair and easyjet for European flights then figure out what you want to see, then book initial city that makes it easiest.Thank you
I think Reykjavik is the best. You can do some sightseeing and travel further to other countries including the USA.
Thank you, looking to travel to Europe this time
Iceland is in Europe
No he wants to go to the country of Europe, and travel further to other countries from there.
I found the Spanish cities to be the best/most pleasant. Barcelona and Madrid. Amsterdam is also great, and there are many others we haven't visited.
Paris my partner and I didn't like, visited two years ago and were blown away by the number of homeless people begging for money and the huge number of way too pushy sales guys selling tourist rubbish near all the attractions. Also with the well known tourist spots, they were generally so busy that we couldn't even get into them (unless willing to stand in a queue for several hours). We didn't even go in peak season.
Thanks!
Don't listen to him, Paris is great. It's hilarious that he picked up on the homeless people in Paris but completely neglected to notice the multitude of missing persons posters in Amsterdam because of the human trafficking. OP you need to first think about where you want to go on your trip, then find a cheap airfare into a place that suits your plans. Anywhere in Europe is generally fine, it's a continent that is simple to traverse thanks to cheap airlines, fast trains and amazing motorways.
Thank you, first time traveller, looking to visit 5-6 countries in 31 days
If I were you I'd fly to the UK, go to London and York, get a cheap Easyjet from anywhere in the UK to Paris, get a train to Amsterdam. Eat some mushrooms and smoke some dope. Train to Berlin, then hire a car to autobahn south to Munich and Switzerland. Dump the car, train to Vienna then another train to Budapest a few days later. Pop over on the train to Prague, then jump on an Easyjet of equivlant to Greece. Pick an island that suits you, chill for a few days, catch a boat to Athens, check out the Acropolis, then a bus across to Patras, a fast Ferry to Anconna, a train down to Rome, then up to Florence, Venice and another train across to Lake Como. Hire a car, drive down to Monaco and Nice. Jump on a plane to Barcelona, and when you're done, fly back to the UK, then Australia.
I was in Paris a lot more recently than Amsterdam, so my view of it may not be current, and I didn't see any missing persons posters in 2005 when I was in Amsterdam, that could have changed massively by now. Paris was quite recent. There are far nicer parts of France to visit I'll admit, I just wouldn't go to Paris again anytime soon.
Missing person posters have littered Amsterdam for decades. There are posts specifically for them. They were definitely there in 2005. You are wrong about Paris.
As others have said, it really depends on where you want to go. It often makes sense to do a 'multi city' booking and fly into one city and out of a different one.
Also, the UK is other slightly more expensive to fly into. Last time I went to Europe (Dec/Jan 2015-2016)I flew into Dublin as it was about $500 AUD less than flying to London. We saw the city then rented a car and drove around Ireland and Northern Ireland. We then flew to London - can be done very cheaply, just remember to prebook baggage - stayed in the UK for a few weeks, flew to Venice (cheap flights can be had from Heathrow, Gatwick, Stanstead, and London City airport, or you can get the Eurostar into Paris or connect to other destinations on the continent). After Venice we got a train to Munich, had a few days there, then a train to Berlin, a week in Berlin, then a train to Amsterdam and flew back to Melbourne from Amsterdam.
Should add, this was our third trip to Europe, had previously done a year in the UK with 6+ months of that travelling around Europe… We've seen most of the major sites on previous trips, but wanted to experience Venice and Germany in Winter
Thank you, multi-city sounds like a very good idea
Have a look at Korean Air when they are on sale you can score return flight to EU for around $1100 (when they are not on sale forget about it:). They also offer multi-city ticket. You fly in for example Prague and fly out from Rome for no extra fee. This way you can plan your european journey bit better.
Do you know if they have flights on sale at any particular time of a year? Thank you for this information :)
Don't know mate but check their website. I usually plan 4-5 months ahead and never had an issues with getting good deal you just have to play with dates a bit. I flew with them like 10x and never had issues. You'll also get free hotel on the way to Europe. I always stayed at the grand Hyatt which is luxury as F
Depends…
For newbies to Europe I'd do Melbourne to Heathrow, a week in London, train to Paris, 3 days there, 3 days in Amsterdam, then you could go across to Spain and fly home from Madrid.
Thank you, I really like this intinerary :) :)
This is a nice and easy itinerary and you include other southern European destinations if you have more time or eastern Europe if you're feeling more adventurous. It really depends on what you want to see in Europe and how long you have and what time of year you're flying.
The cheapest flights will most likely be major German cities, Paris, Amsterdam, Scandinavia or London to fly in/out of although UK fees can make it a more expensive destination to fly out of long haul. Any large somewhat wealthy city will have plenty of cheap connections and most of the time you can fly into one city and out of another for the same or a little extra.
For cheap flights around Europe, they basically work in the sense that if you fly from a major city to a tourist destination the flights and plentiful and cheap but tourist destination to tourist destination the flights will be more expensive despite any logical sense of distance between them.
MEL TO LONDON air Brunei special at the moment $947 . good cheap option, but 'best city' is in the eye of the beholder,you need to decide where you want to go, and open jaw/ multi city is a good way to go as others have advised. you need to be more specific if you expect good advice.
This. If you give your thoughts on where/what you want to see, when you're planning to go, and for how long people would be better placed to give you ideas.
cheap but no booze on flight….
scoot flies melbourne to athens for $800 return if you look hard,if that helps you? sure you get from Athens to England for next to nothing.
Vive la france. Land in Paris and travel everywhere from there