Backpacking Europe

Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
www.kayak.com

seconded.

i was a sidestep user, but have since switched to kayak. i will never use orbitz again after a christmas-new years trip fiasco (well, that was more us airways fault, but orbitz was no help with the problem either).

and pollard is correct, use these sites for finding the fares, but then go to the airlines web pages to book them- fares will normally be about $5-10 cheaper, and you get bonus miles for booking online.

as for planning. . .i would recommend finding the cheapest flight you can to london or dublin or even paris, and use that city as your jumping off point by using the european budget carriers (like ryan air) to get to other places in europe. be forewarned that some budget carrier cities may be 50 miles or more away from the destination.

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:

Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
www.kayak.com

seconded.

i was a sidestep user, but have since switched to kayak. i will never use orbitz again after a christmas-new years trip fiasco (well, that was more us airways fault, but orbitz was no help with the problem either).

and pollard is correct, use these sites for finding the fares, but then go to the airlines web pages to book them- fares will normally be about $5-10 cheaper, and you get bonus miles for booking online.

as for planning. . .i would recommend finding the cheapest flight you can to london or dublin or even paris, and use that city as your jumping off point by using the european budget carriers (like ryan air) to get to other places in europe. be forewarned that some budget carrier cities may be 50 miles or more away from the destination.

There's an echo in here.

Originally posted by Christine Moritz:

Originally posted by 6949:
Check out lonelyplanet's message boards. http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/

Especially this memorable thread:

http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/messagepost.cfm?postaction=reply&catid=32&threadid=776884&messid=6606542&STARTPAGE=1&parentid=0&from=11&showall=true

;)

I can't thank you enough for finding that. I'm up to post #51. I'm saving the rest for later because it's that damn good.

Originally posted by Christine Moritz:
Especially this memorable thread:

Oh. My. God.

That will take care of my Friday afternoon downtime nicely.

Thanks in advance.