Two years ago I spent a small fortune getting to Bucharest, Romania for a research project. Granted, I flew British Airways and we know that's NEVER cheap (but oh so nice). At that point, I had no clue about the many low-cost airlines serving Eastern Europe.
I recently discovered this great website that lists all of the budget airlines cropping up all over the place. They are organized by continent and then by country/cities they serve. There's even a section for low-cost transatlantic flights and apparently RyanAir will start service from UK to US in 2009 (although, I'm not sure how I could manage their miniature baggage restrictions for a trip to London).
http://www.attitudetravel.com/
If you're really adventurous, you might try hitching a ride across the atlantic...seriously:
http://www.airhitch.org/
I also frequently check these sites for hotel/attractions/restaurant advice:
http://www.tripadvisor.com/
http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page
http://www.virtualtourist.com/
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I though interning with HP this summer was making me anxious to graduate. This post just made it worse. There are so many great deals.
Thanks for the props, Tim and Breena!
Actually the Ryanair transatlantic project will be operated by a sister-airline (as yet unnamed) rather than by Ryanair itself. Given the recent transatlantic open skies treaty signed by the EU and the USA though, we can expect transatlantic flights to get A LOT cheaper over the next few years.
Wouldn't you know it... just as transcontinental travel starts to become affordable the planet reaches a point where it is in danger of overheating and flying, except when absolutely necessary, becomes seriously irresponsible.
Perhaps by 2020 we'll have low cost, ultra-high speed, super eco-friendly transatlantic ferries, instead?
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