Flights to Amsterdam

Redegg

Hi,

I'm looking for the cheapest flight to Amsterdam for a weekend in March (probably the 23rd to the 26th) but the only flights I can find are over 150 euro return.

Does anyone know a cheaper alternative (that doesn't involve too much traveling - trains etc) ?

cheers,

Souness

If you can get them for €150 return take it! Only Aerlingus operate the ireland amsterdam route! Not sure if the british budget airlines operate London-Amsterdam. But is it worth the hassle getting ryanair to gatwick and then another flight onwards? You probably only save a couple of euro

dimerocks

don't fly on friday. There will probably be a seat sale soon enough so you may get them cheaper than that. Still 150 ain't that bad.

HelterSkelter

Ha, that is a good price, take it. A typical weekend flight to London is 150 return with Aer Lingus.

honru

€150 return ain't too shabby imo.

Your other options are to fly Dublin-Eindhoven on Ryanair, then train it up, or the Belfast-Amsterdam route on easyJet.

pickarooney

It's 1.5 hours from Eindhoven to Amsterdam by train, about €35 return if memory serves. You can often get return flights from Dublin for under fifty nicker inc tax.

mobpd

pickarooney wrote:

It's 1.5 hours from Eindhoven to Amsterdam by train, about €35 return if memory serves. You can often get return flights from Dublin for under fifty nicker inc tax.

Not sure about that info - the taxes alone for Ryanair return flights to Eindhoven from DUB is 50 EUR then you add the fare (cheapest I have got is 10 eur each way recently) plus the baggage chares plus the priority checkin fees plus the credit card fees ...more like 90 eur cheapest

and then you have to get from airport to train station in eindhoven ....

pickarooney

I just threw in two random dates in February there now, DUB-EIN, one cent out, 7.99 back, 55 quid all included. Pretty sure you could save 7.98 on that if you looked around a bit
Airport-train station isn't far, about a 20 minute cycle so probably similar in a bus.
Still, I would go with the direct flight to Amsterdam if it were only for a few days.

[edit]change from a fifty [/edit]

mobpd

pickarooney wrote:

[edit]change from a fifty [/edit]

thats true if you dont check in any bags, opt out of priority check in, cancel the travel insurance, and only pay with a visa debit card...

pickarooney

mobpd wrote:

thats true if you dont check in any bags, opt out of priority check in, cancel the travel insurance, and only pay with a visa debit card...

the worthless fluff you mean