athens

[lizhoare]

Does anyone know of any cheap travel to Athens from Blackpool, Liverpool or Manchester around end of Nov beginning of Dec. Thanks. xx

[mushroom25]

Athens is beyond the reach of budget airlines, since they prefer (mostly) to fly to destinations that are around 2 hours away. There are no scheduled flights from Liverpool or Blackpool, and Olympic only fly 3 times a week from Manchester. Picking a random week with Opodo, the best I could find was �325-00 each (based on 2 sharing) for a week, but that was flying from London; I'm sure you could do better by shopping round a bit.

[lizhoare]

Thanks mushroom25. A bit expensive as we still have to get to Samos! xx

[Buenchico]

As Mushroom25 states, the only flights from north-west England to Athens are with with Olympic, from Manchester.

I've just spent some time trying to find any suitable alternatives. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any cheap ways to get to Samos.

The only purpose of this post is to advise you that, if you ever want to do this journey when the summer schedules apply, your best route might be as follows:
1. Thomas Cook flight from Manchester to Izmir
2. Taxi to Kusadasi (or take the airport bus into IIzmir and then the local bus to Kusadasi)
3. Ferry to Samos

Unfortunately, the Thomas Cook flights are 'summer only' (and there are no alternative flights to Izmir), so this information won't be of any immediate use to you but I thought that it might help you at some time in the future.

Chris

[sunflower71]

try looking on
www.skyscanner.net