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Old Jun 30th 2005, 10:14 am
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Davey SM4
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Default London - Munich (Oktoberfest!)

Hello everyone,

I've left my planning for Oktoberfest a little late and have found
flights from London to Munich for the opening weekend to be very
expensive.

I'm trying to find a creative (and cheap!) way to get from London to
Munich for Friday 16th - 19th September.

What I've looked at is maybe flying to Prague as it's only about £40
(GBP) return compared to about £200 for Munich. And then getting a
train from Prague to Munich. Or maybe a flight to Venice for £30
return and then a night train to Munich.

Does anyone know how to look at train times and prices for the train
journeys I mentioned?

Or has anyone got a better idea of how I could get to Munich? Maybe
there is a city I could fly to and get a train that is nearer than
Prague, I really don't mind where I fly to as long as I can get to
Munich from there! Any ideas??

Many Thanks,
Dave
 
Old Jun 30th 2005, 10:33 am
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Martin
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On 30 Jun 2005 03:14:18 -0700, "Davey SM4"
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Hello everyone,
    > I've left my planning for Oktoberfest a little late and have found
    >flights from London to Munich for the opening weekend to be very
    >expensive.
    >I'm trying to find a creative (and cheap!) way to get from London to
    >Munich for Friday 16th - 19th September.
    >What I've looked at is maybe flying to Prague as it's only about £40
    >(GBP) return compared to about £200 for Munich. And then getting a
    >train from Prague to Munich. Or maybe a flight to Venice for £30
    >return and then a night train to Munich.
    >Does anyone know how to look at train times and prices for the train
    >journeys I mentioned?
    >Or has anyone got a better idea of how I could get to Munich? Maybe
    >there is a city I could fly to and get a train that is nearer than
    >Prague, I really don't mind where I fly to as long as I can get to
    >Munich from there! Any ideas??

How about flying to Salzburg or Stuttgart from London?

You might be able to find a complete package for less than the air
fares.
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Old Jun 30th 2005, 10:34 am
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Tim Challenger
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On 30 Jun 2005 03:14:18 -0700, Davey SM4 wrote:

    > Hello everyone,
    >
    > I've left my planning for Oktoberfest a little late and have found
    > flights from London to Munich for the opening weekend to be very
    > expensive.
    >
    > I'm trying to find a creative (and cheap!) way to get from London to
    > Munich for Friday 16th - 19th September.
    >
    > What I've looked at is maybe flying to Prague as it's only about £40
    > (GBP) return compared to about £200 for Munich. And then getting a
    > train from Prague to Munich. Or maybe a flight to Venice for £30
    > return and then a night train to Munich.
    >
    > Does anyone know how to look at train times and prices for the train
    > journeys I mentioned?
    >
    > Or has anyone got a better idea of how I could get to Munich? Maybe
    > there is a city I could fly to and get a train that is nearer than
    > Prague, I really don't mind where I fly to as long as I can get to
    > Munich from there! Any ideas??
    >
    > Many Thanks,
    > Dave

Fly to Salzburg or Linz (Ryanair)? Train to Munich.

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Old Jun 30th 2005, 10:35 am
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George
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Davey SM4 wrote:
I've left my planning for Oktoberfest a little late and have found
flights from London to Munich for the opening weekend to be very
expensive. Or has anyone got a better idea of how I could get to
Munich? Maybe
there is a city I could fly to and get a train that is nearer than
Prague, I really don't mind where I fly to as long as I can get to
Munich from there! Any ideas??

Germanwings flies from London Stanstead to Stuttgart, and the tickets
should be inexpensive (possibly as low as 40 euros roundtrip). Munich
should be then about 1 1/2 hours by train. Alternatively, you could
travel about a week later and just stay in Stuttgart and enjoy the
Canstatter Volksfest which is about 1/2 the size of Munich's and
Germany's second largest, that runs from 24Sept to 9Oct.

George
 
Old Jun 30th 2005, 10:46 am
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Martin
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On 30 Jun 2005 03:35:18 -0700, "george" <[email protected]> wrote:

    >Davey SM4 wrote:
    >I've left my planning for Oktoberfest a little late and have found
    >flights from London to Munich for the opening weekend to be very
    >expensive. Or has anyone got a better idea of how I could get to
    >Munich? Maybe
    >there is a city I could fly to and get a train that is nearer than
    >Prague, I really don't mind where I fly to as long as I can get to
    >Munich from there! Any ideas??
    >Germanwings flies from London Stanstead to Stuttgart, and the tickets
    >should be inexpensive (possibly as low as 40 euros roundtrip). Munich
    >should be then about 1 1/2 hours by train. Alternatively, you could
    >travel about a week later and just stay in Stuttgart and enjoy the
    >Canstatter Volksfest which is about 1/2 the size of Munich's and
    >Germany's second largest, that runs from 24Sept to 9Oct.

Package holiday including air fares here

http://www.pptravel.com/eventtours.asp?EventID=BF
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Old Jun 30th 2005, 10:54 am
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Tim Challenger
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On 30 Jun 2005 03:35:18 -0700, george wrote:

    > Davey SM4 wrote:
    > I've left my planning for Oktoberfest a little late and have found
    > flights from London to Munich for the opening weekend to be very
    > expensive. Or has anyone got a better idea of how I could get to
    > Munich? Maybe
    > there is a city I could fly to and get a train that is nearer than
    > Prague, I really don't mind where I fly to as long as I can get to
    > Munich from there! Any ideas??
    >
    > Germanwings flies from London Stanstead to Stuttgart, and the tickets
    > should be inexpensive (possibly as low as 40 euros roundtrip). Munich
    > should be then about 1 1/2 hours by train. Alternatively, you could
    > travel about a week later and just stay in Stuttgart and enjoy the
    > Canstatter Volksfest which is about 1/2 the size of Munich's and
    > Germany's second largest, that runs from 24Sept to 9Oct.
    >
    > George

And imho, much the better of the two.

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Old Jun 30th 2005, 12:39 pm
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Arwel Parry
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In message <[email protected] .com>,
Davey SM4 <[email protected]> writes
    >Hello everyone,
    > I've left my planning for Oktoberfest a little late and have found
    >flights from London to Munich for the opening weekend to be very
    >expensive.
    >I'm trying to find a creative (and cheap!) way to get from London to
    >Munich for Friday 16th - 19th September.
    >What I've looked at is maybe flying to Prague as it's only about £40
    >(GBP) return compared to about £200 for Munich. And then getting a
    >train from Prague to Munich. Or maybe a flight to Venice for £30
    >return and then a night train to Munich.
    >Does anyone know how to look at train times and prices for the train
    >journeys I mentioned?

You've had lots of other suggestions, but if you're still interested in
the Prague suggestion, train times are available at
http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en (enter PRAHA and MUENCHEN
as origin and destination) - for an adult it offers a fare of 49 euro
second class single, through train, and 46.70 euro for a routing with 3
changes of train.
The Czech railways international fare calculator at
http://www.jizdenka.cz/IT.aspx (Vydejna Praha, Z Praha Do Muenchen)
gives a 2nd class single fare of 1446 Kc (47.40 euro).

Oh, by the way, Prague Public Transport's fares are going up on 1st
July, for the first time in 7 years - basic adult single fare on the
metro/trams/buses goes up from 14 Kc to 20 Kc (about 40p).

    >Or has anyone got a better idea of how I could get to Munich? Maybe
    >there is a city I could fly to and get a train that is nearer than
    >Prague, I really don't mind where I fly to as long as I can get to
    >Munich from there! Any ideas??
    >Many Thanks,
    >Dave

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Old Jun 30th 2005, 3:08 pm
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Dgs
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Davey SM4 wrote:

    > I'm trying to find a creative (and cheap!) way to get from London to
    > Munich for Friday 16th - 19th September.
    >
    > What I've looked at is maybe flying to Prague as it's only about £40
    > (GBP) return compared to about £200 for Munich. And then getting a
    > train from Prague to Munich. Or maybe a flight to Venice for £30
    > return and then a night train to Munich.

Venice-Munich return train won't save you that much money.
Prague-Munich train will be slow.

Why not STN-NUE r/t on Air Berlin? Fly out Thursday evening at 8.30pm,
arr NUE 11.55pm, stay overnight in Nürnberg, then take the train (less
than 2 hours) to Munich on Fri morning. Take train back to NUE on
Monday, fly out at 7.20 in the evening. R/T price is €132.47, or
about £90 - a *lot* less expensive than £200!

Hint: www.skyscanner.net will aid you in being creative (and cheap!).
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Old Jun 30th 2005, 4:14 pm
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Tim
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    >"Davey SM4" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > >news:[email protected] roups.com...
    >Hello everyone,
>I've left my planning for Oktoberfest a little late and have found
    >flights from London to Munich for the opening weekend to be very
    >expensive.
    >I'm trying to find a creative (and cheap!) way to get from London to
    >Munich for Friday 16th - 19th September.

Ryanair to Friedrichshafen.
All in: 52 pounds.

you need to buy the train ticket in two parts as the 'bayern' fare from
Lindau is better value than the normal fare.

tim
 
Old Jul 1st 2005, 5:52 am
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Thomas
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Default Re: London - Munich (Oktoberfest!)

I've left my planning for Oktoberfest a little late and have found
flights from London to Munich for the opening weekend to be very
expensive.

I'm trying to find a creative (and cheap!) way to get from London to
Munich for Friday 16th - 19th September.

What I've looked at is maybe flying to Prague as it's only about £40
(GBP) return compared to about £200 for Munich. And then getting a
train from Prague to Munich. Or maybe a flight to Venice for £30
return and then a night train to Munich.

Does anyone know how to look at train times and prices for the train
journeys I mentioned?

Or has anyone got a better idea of how I could get to Munich? Maybe
there is a city I could fly to and get a train that is nearer than
Prague, I really don't mind where I fly to as long as I can get to
Munich from there! Any ideas??

Fly Southampton (only 1 hour from London Waterloo) to Salzburg with Flybe,
then a short rail journey to Munich.
 
Old Jul 1st 2005, 10:36 am
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    > In message <[email protected] .com>,
    > Davey SM4 <[email protected]> writes
    > >Hello everyone,
    > >
    > > I've left my planning for Oktoberfest a little late and have found
    > >flights from London to Munich for the opening weekend to be very
    > >expensive.
    > >

Careful. I'm still recovering from my drunken times there in 1968!

Surreyman
 
Old Jul 1st 2005, 10:44 am
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Magda
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On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:36:22 GMT, in rec.travel.europe, "a.spencer3"
<[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :

... > In message <[email protected] .com>,
... > Davey SM4 <[email protected]> writes
... > >Hello everyone,
... > >
... > > I've left my planning for Oktoberfest a little late and have found
... > >flights from London to Munich for the opening weekend to be very
... > >expensive.
... > >
... >
...
... Careful. I'm still recovering from my drunken times there in 1968!
...
... Surreyman

You outlived that 37 years ?
What a liver... ;)
 
Old Jul 1st 2005, 12:15 pm
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Martin
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On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:44:07 +0200, Magda <[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:36:22 GMT, in rec.travel.europe, "a.spencer3"
    ><[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :
    > ... > In message <[email protected] .com>,
    > ... > Davey SM4 <[email protected]> writes
    > ... > >Hello everyone,
    > ... > >
    > ... > > I've left my planning for Oktoberfest a little late and have found
    > ... > >flights from London to Munich for the opening weekend to be very
    > ... > >expensive.
    > ... > >
    > ... >
    > ...
    > ... Careful. I'm still recovering from my drunken times there in 1968!
    > ...
    > ... Surreyman
    >You outlived that 37 years ?
    >What a liver... ;)

I had drunken times there as early as 1967.
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Old Jul 1st 2005, 4:09 pm
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DDT Filled Mormons
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On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:15:13 +0200, Martin <[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:44:07 +0200, Magda <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:36:22 GMT, in rec.travel.europe, "a.spencer3"
    >><[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :
    >> ... > In message <[email protected] .com>,
    >> ... > Davey SM4 <[email protected]> writes
    >> ... > >Hello everyone,
    >> ... > >
    >> ... > > I've left my planning for Oktoberfest a little late and have found
    >> ... > >flights from London to Munich for the opening weekend to be very
    >> ... > >expensive.
    >> ... > >
    >> ... >
    >> ...
    >> ... Careful. I'm still recovering from my drunken times there in 1968!
    >> ...
    >> ... Surreyman
    >>You outlived that 37 years ?
    >>What a liver... ;)
    >I had drunken times there as early as 1967.

I flew over there 3 years ago and still feel seedy.
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Old Jul 1st 2005, 4:13 pm
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Martin
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On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:09:20 GMT, DDT Filled Mormons
<deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:

    >On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:15:13 +0200, Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:44:07 +0200, Magda <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:36:22 GMT, in rec.travel.europe, "a.spencer3"
    >>><[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :
    >>> ... > In message <[email protected] .com>,
    >>> ... > Davey SM4 <[email protected]> writes
    >>> ... > >Hello everyone,
    >>> ... > >
    >>> ... > > I've left my planning for Oktoberfest a little late and have found
    >>> ... > >flights from London to Munich for the opening weekend to be very
    >>> ... > >expensive.
    >>> ... > >
    >>> ... >
    >>> ...
    >>> ... Careful. I'm still recovering from my drunken times there in 1968!
    >>> ...
    >>> ... Surreyman
    >>>You outlived that 37 years ?
    >>>What a liver... ;)
    >>I had drunken times there as early as 1967.
    >I flew over there 3 years ago and still feel seedy.

a canary with Norwegian Blue syndrome by proxy?
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