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How low cost do you want low cost to be, and how annoying are you prepared for it to be? I just picked (fairly arbitrarily) Monday 19th August, and although Exp
by pm215 7y ago
How low cost do you want low cost to be, and how annoying are you prepared for it to be? I just picked (fairly arbitrarily) Monday 19th August, and although Expedia does offer a GBP18 Ryanair flight SXF - BRU you have to accept an 0620 departure time to get that, and of course no checked baggage and you need to include costs of getting to/from the airport. Given the need to arrive at least 1h before departure I would personally not even consider 0620 dep, and all the other flights Expedia suggests cost 90 quid or more. For the train loco2.com has one-way tickets Berlin Hbf -> Bruxelles-Midi from GBP63.50 at reasonable times.
- magduf 7y agoAs an American, I can only dream of having convenient train fares of about USD$80 to go between somewhat-distant cities. Berlin to Brussels for GPB63.50 (about $80 right now) sounds downright cheap to me.
- objectivetruth 7y agoExcept in very high-demand seasons/routes, Amtrak is pretty affordable. I routinely see 200-mile one-way tickets on my usual route for $30. I took my sister's kid on a fun 35-mile train ride for like $8 total. I've done Chicago -> Oakland via Amtrak for less than $200... It's brutal in coach. But I've done the same route in a private sleeper room, with 6 or 7 restaurant-quality meals included, for less than $500. It's basically a 60-hour-long well-catered scenic landscape tour of America. (But the on-board WiFi and your ability to 4G tether is basically worthless between Denver -> SLC, and between SLC -> Reno :-)