Eh, my flight from LAX to Cleveland right before Christmas was ~$350 and flight from Cleveland to Miami after Christmas was ~$250 and those were both direct, so ~$600-650 for a connecting flight from Miami to LAX seems excessive even giving timing.
That cleveland flight is about 200 dollars more than normal, and the the one to Miami is about 150 dollars more than normal. There's always a holiday spike
Probably my favorite real city in the world. Amazing place. Def go up to Cape of Good Hope and Table Mountain, but everyone does that so nothing earth shattering there.
anyone ever just spend a Summer somewhere? I have a summer internship out in Denver. Early May to late July. Don't know anyone there. Need to find affordable housing
Anybody know if my health insurance will cover vaccinations for Africa? I have an appt with the travel clinic to get my shots but they said I have to pay for them up front and then insurance will cover part of them after the fact, supposedly. Any that won't be covered? Going to Kenya on February
I'd look in RiNo, Highlands, LoDo, and Uptown. Message me if you have any questions and I can definitely try to help you out.
thanks. any thoughts on the superiority of the surrounding cities worth checking out in my 10 weeks there? I've got a friend in Fort Collins, obviously Boulder is close and Colorado Springs is a possibility
don't know shit about surrounding cities, I've only been to Boulder once. I think Fort Collins has good breweries.
I submitted typhoid, yellow fever, and hep a to my insurance when I went to Brazil for WC. Got 0 back. Ask the clinic to hook you up with some antibiotics and some zofran for those hangovers though. I told them the zofran was for "If I ate something bad and felt sick"
Jesus, maybe its too close to flying time and prices went up, but I go LA to London dec 25 and then london to LA via Orlando on jan 3 and the whole ticket was only $870
I'd hang mostly around Denver. There's tons to do. Everyone is outside whenever its nice. Boulder during the summer is pretty dead, no reason to go to Colorado Springs. Some of the mountain towns are pretty cool during the summer though. I'd check out Breckenridge and Aspen.
plan on doing some hiking, trip up to Fort Collins for breweries sake and RedRocks Amphitheater. Otherwise, just enjoying my time in Denver
I don't get it. I'm pulling a direct from LAX to Miami on 1/3 for $303 and plenty of other options for $300-350 but the cheapest MIA to LAX on 1/3 I'm getting is $527 and it has one stop and doesn't get in until 2 AM. The cheapest flight I'd realistically take (i.e. under 10 hour total travel time and lands before midnight) is $612.
Did you look at Ontario, Orange County, Long Beach, Burbank, and San Diego as well? there's a lot of possible airports to fly into. Or maybe there's some other major airports close to miami? Edit: Just searched and found $320 from ft lauderdale to LAX jan 3
Thanks, man. Was looking into the various SoCal area airports but never tried from Fort Lauderdale (about 30 miles away). The flight isn't ideal (lands at 2 AM) but may have to do if the prices don't drop in the next week or so.
So we've pretty much decided on Rome -> Florence -> Barcelona -> Paris, how feasible is it to take a day trip to London while we're in Paris? I read that its like 2 hours on the train so if we took one of the first ones in the morning and one of the latest at night that gives us like 8-9 hours in London, which isn't ideal but certainly seems better than not seeing the city while we're over there.
I've done the "holy shit let's see everything for 48 hours" and the "let's relax trip" and I honestly think you'll regret spending 8 hours in London over 13 more hours in Paris Editor's note: I haven't been to London but I turned down a day trip to London for these reasons this July
unless you aren't planning to ever go to Europe again (or for many years) I'd hold off and see London when you have more time and package it with some destinations in Scotland and Ireland. From a trip standpoint it's doable but damn that's a long day, plus there's so much to see/do in London that a day trip just seems like a way to check it off a list rather than experience it. How many days are you planning to stay in each city?
Rome 4 Florence 2 Barca 4 Paris 5 Honestly I highly doubt we'd be making a trip overseas again for quite some time, if ever. We aren't huge history buffs, but we'd like to see all the art and architecture in Italy, in Barcelona we're going to a game and touring Camp Nou (I'm a big Barca fan) and planned on doing the beach and see some sights a couple days. Paris maybe a PSG game if time allows, sight seeing, the Louvre, etc.
Definitely save London for another time. I think you need 3-4 days at an absolute minimum. So many things to see and do. It's probably my favorite city in the world.
I thought I was going to really dislike it; I'm not much of a big city guy, and have been more enthralled with the smaller cities in Europe rather than Paris, Amsterdam, etc. But I fucking loved London. It's awesome. I think a lot of what helps is they have probably the best public transportation system in the world
LeonardWashington Room 15 southside What time of year did yall go to Iceland? Kicking around ideas for June/July, and I know Northern Lights would be out of the picture then, but there are 20+ hour days and apparently a bunch of the middle of the island opens up with the warm(er) weather
I went about a month ago. It depends on how important the lights are to you. If you can live without seeing them then May-September IMO are the best times to go. Most daylight to see shit and least amount of precipitation though the weather is pretty unpredictable year-round, that's your best shot at good weather and getting to see a bunch of stuff. It gets really cold and miserable during the winter months. The only real drawbacks of going in that May-early September time is the northern lights and you miss out on some of the cool ice stuff. When you see pictures of glaciers etc they look really cool and the ice and all deep blue and stuff and you're like "wow that is a must do". Well I did a glacier tour and while cool and worth the time it wasn't as cool as I thought and not nearly what the pictures looked like. The reason for that is in those warmer months much of the glaciers have melted and the ice isn't cold enough to give it that really cool deep blue color. So you won't see awesome shit like this, and you likely would in the winter months: But honestly that would be a really good time to go if you can live with not seeing the lights and I'd still pick the summer over the winter even without the kewl ice. I might post a pic of the what the glacier looked like when I was there when I get home tonight
My personal recommendation - I would flip 4 days in Rome and 5 days in Paris. On your fifth (i.e. one additional) day in Rome, I would take a high speed train down to Naples (about an hour and a half). From Naples, I would take the Circumvensuvia train down to Sorrento (about 30-45 minutes). Within ~3 hours from Rome, you're in Sorrento which is one of the most gorgeous towns in the world and the start to the Amalfi Coast. You can either stay in Sorrento (which is amazing), or take a ferry to Positano/Amalfi/Praiano/Capri on the Amalfi Coast (Positano is is my single favorite place I've ever been to and perfect for a honeymoon). I'd even think about staying the night in Sorrento/Positano if you can hold your bags in Rome and just take a day pack to Positano before going back to Rome in the morning. Alternatively, the ancient ruins of Pompeii are halfway between Naples and Sorrento on the Circumvensuvia train if you want to spend half the day seeing the ruins and half the day in Naples which is VASTLY underrated. It's a slightly aggressive day trip (probably 6 am to 9:30 am to get from Rome to Sorrento and 6 pm to 9:30 pm to get to Rome), but getting to see the Amalfi coast on your honeymoon would be amazing. I'll qualify this sentence by saying I am *not* a Paris guy, but think 3-4 days may be enough.
I went in mid May. It's a little early, some of the stuff was still closed--like tours were still closed like Lanadmannalaugar due to the roads being too icy. The inside the volcano tour I did on a Friday was the second day of the season it was open. I think early June would be a bit better but the weather was fine and the sunlight was sweet. This was a picture I took at 1030 driving back to Reykjavik
This was from the 4km hike to the volcano from base camp. Hopefully this loads. I really need to do some photo dumps from my trips year
Planning my 2016 now: Dec. 29-Jan. 12 = Austria, Switzerland, Hungary April 19-23 = Mexico City (four day taco tour) Then need to find a good time to fit in Iceland.
I think I'm doing Nicaragua in late January early feb then rest of the year is up in the air. Probably head back to Asia and do some Vancouver, Banf Park and Alaska once I'm in Seattle since those are close
My favorite is Augustiner Braustuben. More local beer hall than the touristy Hofbrau which is still worth a visit. Food was great, beer delicious, and local pricing not spiked.
$240 RT from Ft Lauderdale to Lima. Pretty crazy deal for anyone who was looking to go to Peru and lives in Florida or close. http://www.secretflying.com/2015/11/fort-lauderdale-to-lima-peru-for-an-incredibly-cheap-240-return/
Need a little London help. Usually it's pretty straight forward what areas you want to be in but London is huge from what I can gather. I know the public transportation is great there so your never too far from anything. With that said, what areas would you guys recommend. It will be with wife and me so we definitely lean more to being close to good food and attractions over partying. Price wise probably looking to try and stay for under $150 a night which looking around on airbnb looks easily doable.