On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:56:29 +0100, [email protected] (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

>Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:48:20 +0100, [email protected] (David Horne, _the_
>> chancellor (*)) wrote:
>>
>> >Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>[]
>> >> I find it cheaper to sleep at home and take a taxi to the airport.
>> >
>> >Depends how far you live from the airport- it's expensive to get a taxi
>> >from London to Gatwick for one person. (I would just take the train or
>> >bus to Manchester or Liverpool!)
>>
>> Even more for me, but the subject says Schiphol :-)
>>
>> In the same situation, my kids have always taken a cheap evening flight,
>> there's no way they can catch an early morning flight and save money.
>
>Depends where you're going- some destinations from here only have one
>flight a day. When I've taken a very early morning flight, it's been the
>only flight I could get, without spending 100s of pounds more.
>
>For me, it's only the inconvenience of getting up very early that adds a
>'cost' to the morning flight. If I was flying to a new destination, I'd
>prefer earlier to later, all things considered. Our flight to Alghero
>gets in around 10pm. That's pushing it for me, but it seems like an easy
>taxi ride to the hotel...

In an air conditioned car of course.

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On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:51:56 +0200, Martin
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>Even more for me, but the subject says Schiphol :-)
>
>In the same situation, my kids have always taken a cheap evening flight,
>there's no way they can catch an early morning flight and save money.

There are plenty of hotels in that price range for a full
night within a short cab-ride from Heathrow:
http://tinyurl.com/2hgokn
Gatwick:
http://tinyurl.com/22y47m
Schipol:
http://tinyurl.com/2dyv4j

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On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:32:59 +1000, Alan S <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:51:56 +0200, Martin
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>Even more for me, but the subject says Schiphol :-)
>>
>>In the same situation, my kids have always taken a cheap evening flight,
>>there's no way they can catch an early morning flight and save money.
>
>There are plenty of hotels in that price range for a full
>night within a short cab-ride from Heathrow:
>http://tinyurl.com/2hgokn
>Gatwick:
>http://tinyurl.com/22y47m
>Schipol:
>http://tinyurl.com/2dyv4j

but you have to add the cost of the cab ride and only the first one is near to
the same price.
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Alan S <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:51:56 +0200, Martin
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> >Even more for me, but the subject says Schiphol :-)
> >
> >In the same situation, my kids have always taken a cheap evening flight,
> >there's no way they can catch an early morning flight and save money.
>
> There are plenty of hotels in that price range for a full
> night within a short cab-ride from Heathrow:

A short cab ride there and back, and it adds to the cost, and it's not
in the airport. For Gatwick, it works out a very good deal, and any of
the affordable hotels there are a few miles from the terminals.

The URL's you quoted for Heathrow showed very little availablity close
to £50 for overnight rates, and you can add at least £10 on top of that
for the taxi return fare in some cases.

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On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 10:41:51 +0100, [email protected] (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

>Alan S <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:51:56 +0200, Martin
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >Even more for me, but the subject says Schiphol :-)
>> >
>> >In the same situation, my kids have always taken a cheap evening flight,
>> >there's no way they can catch an early morning flight and save money.
>>
>> There are plenty of hotels in that price range for a full
>> night within a short cab-ride from Heathrow:
>
>A short cab ride there and back, and it adds to the cost, and it's not
>in the airport. For Gatwick, it works out a very good deal, and any of
>the affordable hotels there are a few miles from the terminals.
>
>The URL's you quoted for Heathrow showed very little availablity close
>to £50 for overnight rates, and you can add at least £10 on top of that
>for the taxi return fare in some cases.

The same is true about the hotels he gave for Schiphol.
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