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Waterford to Northern Cyprus?

  • 29-05-2010 9:28am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭


    Hiya,
    Does anyone know the best way to get from Waterford to Northern Cyprus?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    Northern Cyprus as in Turkish Cyprus?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭Kotek Besar


    Pythia wrote: »
    Northern Cyprus as in Turkish Cyprus?

    Yes. TRNC.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    I believe you have to fly through Turkey to get there. You can't rent a car in the south and drive it over the boarder.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭Kotek Besar


    Pythia wrote: »
    I believe you have to fly through Turkey to get there.

    Yes, I think that's one way - to ECN via IST. I was thinking of flying in to LCA, possibly via a UK airport. I'd then get a taxi or bus to TRNC, or at least to the border.

    There's a direct flight from BFS to LCA with Thomas Cook Airlines, but it's a trek to get to Belfast from Waterford and the flights are quite expensive.

    Possibly I could take Aer Arann from WAT to either MAN, BHX or LTN and get another airline from there.

    Flying from DUB or ORK is also an alternative, if it's cheaper than flying from WAT, petrol and parking taken into consideration.

    Has anyone ever been to TRNC from Ireland, who can advise on the best route?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    You can fly to Cyprus and cross the border on foot into the Turkish occupied North of the Island. I don't know about driving but you don't need to fly to Turkey to enter Northern Cyprus anymore as the land border is open and presuming you have an EU passport you will get an entry visa at the border.

    If you truly wanted to fly into Northern Cyprus you would have to go via Turkey as Northern Cyprus is an illegal occupation by Turkish settlers of the northern portion of the Republic of Cyprus as is thus not recognised by the international community which means that commercial aviation cannot fly in there without flying through Turkey which is the only country to recognise it as it is in effect their offshore defacto colony. Paul Kilduff wrote a nice bit about the region in his book "Ruinairski" which detailed his crossing of the land border also.

    http://wikitravel.org/en/Northern_Cyprus

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Cyprus


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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,352 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Yes, I think that's one way - to ECN via IST. I was thinking of flying in to LCA, possibly via a UK airport. I'd then get a taxi or bus to TRNC, or at least to the border.

    There's a direct flight from BFS to LCA with Thomas Cook Airlines, but it's a trek to get to Belfast from Waterford and the flights are quite expensive.

    Possibly I could take Aer Arann from WAT to either MAN, BHX or LTN and get another airline from there.

    Flying from DUB or ORK is also an alternative, if it's cheaper than flying from WAT, petrol and parking taken into consideration.

    Has anyone ever been to TRNC from Ireland, who can advise on the best route?

    It might be worth bearing in mind that this isn't the aviation forum and most people won't necessarily know what those airport codes mean.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 267 ✭✭Lifelike


    I know that Eurocypria Airlines operate charter flights from Dublin to Larnaca in Southern Cyprus, but I'm not sure who it is operated for.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭PhilTorres


    I know this thread is old but incase anyone else is looking for info we go over there regular, Parents live in Tatilsu, and always travel from Dublin-Germany(usually Munich) and then onto Larnaca and the same on the way back except usually through Frankfurt. This is all with Lufthansa and all transfers are very smooth.

    When in Larnaca we get collected by a company called A1 who are from the North.

    We have tried a lot of different routes though the UK and even Brussels but this one is the best and often the cheapest.


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