Ps

I will arrive in Helsinki and have a choice of side trip selecting either
London, Barcelona or Madrid. What would be highly recommendable? Would
prefer city from where I may be able to take further cheap flights like on
EasyJet.

Max time to be spent is 3 days...interests are just to see city, late night
shopping, nightlife.

ps

Mike O'Sullivan

PS wrote:
    > I will arrive in Helsinki and have a choice of side trip selecting either
    > London, Barcelona or Madrid. What would be highly recommendable? Would
    > prefer city from where I may be able to take further cheap flights like on
    > EasyJet.
    >
    > Max time to be spent is 3 days...interests are just to see city, late night
    > shopping, nightlife.

Well I used to work in London, so I would recommend Barcelona.

Ghptravel.Com

All 3 cities seem to be great to visit (they are on my list to go to)

But the only cheap flight that i found from Helsinki is with Flyme
(www.flyme.com) and it go's to Stockholm (sweden) but from there there are
lot's of options to take cheap flights.

If you want some more info about cheap flights to and from the airports you
named (or stockholm) then you can check it at my site.
www.ghptravel.com

Have a great trip,

George
www.ghptravel.com "your travel starting point"


"PS" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > I will arrive in Helsinki and have a choice of side trip selecting either
    > London, Barcelona or Madrid. What would be highly recommendable? Would
    > prefer city from where I may be able to take further cheap flights like on
    > EasyJet.
    > Max time to be spent is 3 days...interests are just to see city, late
night
    > shopping, nightlife.
    > ps

Miguel Cruz

PS <[email protected]> wrote:
    > I will arrive in Helsinki and have a choice of side trip selecting either
    > London, Barcelona or Madrid. What would be highly recommendable? Would
    > prefer city from where I may be able to take further cheap flights like on
    > EasyJet.
    > Max time to be spent is 3 days...interests are just to see city, late night
    > shopping, nightlife.

They're all great cities to visit, but if you're into nightlife, you have to
go to Spain. Spain rocks all night, while London is pretty much dead by
midnight except for some dance clubs.

miguel
--
Hit The Road! Photos from 32 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu

Owain

"PS" wrote
    | I will arrive in Helsinki and have a choice of side trip selecting
    | either London, Barcelona or Madrid. What would be highly
    | recommendable? Would prefer city from where I may be able to
    | take further cheap flights like on EasyJet.
    | Max time to be spent is 3 days...interests are just to see city,
    | late night shopping, nightlife.

In 3 days you will have little time for any further trips, especially by air
(low cost airlines tend to use lesser-used airports, so allow at least an
hour to get to the airport, two hours to check in, ... takes half a day for
a one hour flight, and that's if you fly on time).

Barcelona probably wins on 24-hour nightlife, London for international class
shopping and more than enough to keep you occupied for 3 days without ever
going into a nightclub. But miserable licensing hours.

Owain

The Reids

Following up to PS

    >London, Barcelona or Madrid.

London for further cheap flights, but for 3 days, why worry? You
could combine London and Paris with Eurostar I suppose.
If want it lively I would choose Madrid, if youre more into
looking at history, maybe London.
--
Mike Reid
Wasdale-Thames path-London-photos "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap

Deep Frayed Morgues

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 07:37:31 +0000 (UTC), Mike O'Sullivan
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >PS wrote:
    >> I will arrive in Helsinki and have a choice of side trip selecting either
    >> London, Barcelona or Madrid. What would be highly recommendable? Would
    >> prefer city from where I may be able to take further cheap flights like on
    >> EasyJet.
    >>
    >> Max time to be spent is 3 days...interests are just to see city, late night
    >> shopping, nightlife.
    >Well I used to work in London, so I would recommend Barcelona.

Me too, and so would I.
---
DFM

Jens Arne Maennig

PS wrote:

    > I will arrive in Helsinki and have a choice of side trip selecting either
    > London, Barcelona or Madrid. What would be highly recommendable?

Barcelona. I just had three days there (once again after nine years) and
I think it ist just a phantastic place.

Jens

B Vaughan

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 03:14:24 -0600, [email protected] (Miguel Cruz)
wrote:

    >PS <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> I will arrive in Helsinki and have a choice of side trip selecting either
    >> London, Barcelona or Madrid. What would be highly recommendable? Would
    >> prefer city from where I may be able to take further cheap flights like on
    >> EasyJet.
    >> Max time to be spent is 3 days...interests are just to see city, late night
    >> shopping, nightlife.
    >They're all great cities to visit, but if you're into nightlife, you have to
    >go to Spain. Spain rocks all night, while London is pretty much dead by
    >midnight except for some dance clubs.

However, don't expect late night shopping.

--
Barbara Vaughan
My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it
I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup

Kalle

"PS" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > I will arrive in Helsinki and have a choice of side trip selecting either
    > London, Barcelona or Madrid. What would be highly recommendable? Would
    > prefer city from where I may be able to take further cheap flights like on
    > EasyJet.

If you'll stay in Helsinki and like nightlife you should definitely try this
one :-)

http://www.ravintolazetor.fi/eng/index.html


And if I'd have to choose between London, Barcelona and Madrid, I'd go to
Barcelona. No question about that.

Ps

Well, there are as many opinions as posters! I appreciate receiving all. I
reckon it will be HEL to BCN this time. Maybe London on a future trip with
more time on hand to see a bit more of England.

ps

"Kalle" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > "PS" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    > > I will arrive in Helsinki and have a choice of side trip selecting
either
    > > London, Barcelona or Madrid. What would be highly recommendable? Would
    > > prefer city from where I may be able to take further cheap flights like
on
    > > EasyJet.
    > If you'll stay in Helsinki and like nightlife you should definitely try
this
    > one :-)
    > http://www.ravintolazetor.fi/eng/index.html
    > And if I'd have to choose between London, Barcelona and Madrid, I'd go to
    > Barcelona. No question about that.

Jim Ley

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:05:57 -0000, "Owain"
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >"PS" wrote
    >| I will arrive in Helsinki and have a choice of side trip selecting
    >| either London, Barcelona or Madrid. What would be highly
    >| recommendable? Would prefer city from where I may be able to
    >| take further cheap flights like on EasyJet.
    >| Max time to be spent is 3 days...interests are just to see city,
    >| late night shopping, nightlife.
    >In 3 days you will have little time for any further trips, especially by air
    >(low cost airlines tend to use lesser-used airports, so allow at least an
    >hour to get to the airport, two hours to check in, ...

None of the low costs require 2 hour checkins most of them don't open
their check-in desks 2 hours before the flight. I got off a San
Fransisco Flight 3 hours before EasyJet left, and I had to wait 1 1/2
hours before they opened the check-in. Not much fun in the awful
landside part of Gatwick.

Jim.

nitram

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:56:27 GMT, [email protected] (Jim Ley) wrote:

    >On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:05:57 -0000, "Owain"
    ><[email protected]> wrote:
    >>"PS" wrote
    >>| I will arrive in Helsinki and have a choice of side trip selecting
    >>| either London, Barcelona or Madrid. What would be highly
    >>| recommendable? Would prefer city from where I may be able to
    >>| take further cheap flights like on EasyJet.
    >>| Max time to be spent is 3 days...interests are just to see city,
    >>| late night shopping, nightlife.
    >>In 3 days you will have little time for any further trips, especially by air
    >>(low cost airlines tend to use lesser-used airports, so allow at least an
    >>hour to get to the airport, two hours to check in, ...
    >None of the low costs require 2 hour checkins most of them don't open
    >their check-in desks 2 hours before the flight. I got off a San
    >Fransisco Flight 3 hours before EasyJet left, and I had to wait 1 1/2
    >hours before they opened the check-in. Not much fun in the awful
    >landside part of Gatwick.

All though they don't need it, some do specify it.
--
Martin

barney

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
(PS) wrote:

    > I will arrive in Helsinki and have a choice of side trip selecting
    > either
    > London, Barcelona or Madrid. What would be highly recommendable? Would
    > prefer city from where I may be able to take further cheap flights like
    > on
    > EasyJet.
    >
    > Max time to be spent is 3 days...interests are just to see city, late
    > night
    > shopping, nightlife.

London or Barcelona. Both of them for "sights", London for shopping,
Barcelona for nightlife.

Neither greatly resembles Australia so both will present an interestingly
different experience - having said that, Barcelona is probably more
different. On the other hand, they speak English in London. On the other
hand, it's full of Aussies. ;)

Dan Checkman

"PS" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
    > I will arrive in Helsinki and have a choice of side trip selecting either
    > London, Barcelona or Madrid. What would be highly recommendable? Would
    > prefer city from where I may be able to take further cheap flights like on
    > EasyJet.
    >
    > Max time to be spent is 3 days...interests are just to see city, late night
    > shopping, nightlife.
    >
    > ps

Of the 3, I think Barcelona is easiest to see in 3 days, in that you
can really see a large part of the city and still take in some of the
top sights in a 3 day window. Barcelona also has an active nightlife.
It's not as much the insomniac's haven that Madrid is, but there's
still plenty to do. Shopping is good in all 3 cities (probably best
in London), but prices for most goods will be cheaper (most of the
year) in Barcelona. I don't know about late-night shopping - I don't
remember any of the 3 having too many stores that stayed open late at
night.

Honestly, all 3 are a lot of fun and can be enjoyed to some extent in
3 days, but I think Barcelona will combine all of your interests the
best and is also more desirable than Madrid or London from a budget
traveler's perspective.

    :-Dan