On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 06:00:30PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I have made some research and it turns out that the easiest > for me would be paris->somewhere->dresden, where somewhere is either > Frankfurt, Munchen or Dusseldorf.
[Note that if several of you arrive at the same time at 'somewhere', a rented car might be an option price-wise. Dresden->Chemnitz is an additional 1.5 hours by train, car is ~4-5h from Frankfurt and Munich and a bit more from Duesseldorf.] > I am looking for dates like 24/07--29/07. Does this seem OK? The > typical pricing that I found is 350EUR Urgs. That's a quite bit more than I thought... I just had a look at www.ryanair.com for flights from Stansted: Glasgow £ 14.99 Altenburg £ 19.99 Stockholm (VST) £ 29.99 Venice Treviso £ 16.99 Klagenfurt £ 19.99 Stockholm (NYO) £ 29.99 Ostend-Bruges £ 19.99 Newquay £ 19.99 Rome (Ciampino) £ 29.99 Clermont-Ferrand £ 19.99 Esbjerg £ 19.99 Dinard (Britanny) £ 29.99 Blackpool £ 19.99 Genoa £ 19.99 Trieste £ 29.99 Reims Champagne (near Disney) £ 19.99 Graz £ 19.99 Ancona £ 29.99 Brussels (Charleroi) £ 19.99 Frankfurt-Hahn £ 19.99 Carcassonne £ 29.99 Niederrhein Dusseldorf £ 19.99 Brescia £ 19.99 Alghero £ 29.99 Maastricht £ 19.99 Malmo £ 19.99 Biarritz £ 29.99 Eindhoven £ 19.99 Pisa £ 19.99 Montpellier £ 29.99 Groningen £ 19.99 Pau (Pyrenees) £ 29.99 Brest £ 39.99 Milan (Bergamo) £ 19.99 Tours (Loire Valley) £ 29.99 Palermo £ 39.99 Haugesund £ 19.99 Limoges £ 29.99 Poitiers £ 39.99 Rodez £ 19.99 St.Etienne (Lyon) £ 29.99 Pescara £ 39.99 Derry £ 19.99 Cork £ 29.99 Barcelona-Girona £ 39.99 Hamburg (Lübeck) £ 19.99 Bologna (Forli) £ 29.99 La Rochelle £ 39.99 Kerry £ 19.99 Aarhus £ 29.99 Nîmes £ 39.99 Turin £ 19.99 Knock £ 29.99 Perpignan £ 39.99 Oslo (Torp) £ 19.99 Gothenburg £ 29.99 Bergerac £ 39.99 Strasbourg £ 19.99 Berlin-Schonefeld £ 29.99 Jerez £ 49 Salzburg £ 19.99 Shannon £ 29.99 Murcia £ 69 Friedrichshafen £ 19.99 I cannot tell which of the French looking airports is closest to you, but the list suggests that there is a way to go from France to Altenburg for less than 100 EUR. It's only open for booking for the period 18 June - 17 July right now, so you'd need to wait a week to get definitive answer. > OTOH, it has proven very difficult to find planes going to Altenburg > (and for me going to stansted first is not so simple...). It's fairly "new". A couple of years ago the best chance to get there was using a MiG 29 ;-) > A question: how easy is it to go from dresden airport to the train > station? I never did that myself. www.bahn.de seems to suggest that there is are train station located direct at Dresden airport, with three or four trains per hour to Dresden main station at noon. I'll try to find out some more details, though. [Again, if there are three of you at Dresden airport at the same time, I could fetch you by car from there. Faster (for you...), cheaper, and more convenient. > [...] > OK, I see now that going to leipzig is equally easy/expensive for me. > Which one is better wrt going to chemnitz? There is really not much difference. Dresden is a bit better acessible by car, that's it. Train seems to be around 14 EUR from either... > Also, is it really necessary to book the train ticket in advance? No. [Actually the risk of missing the train and having to pay re-booking fees would outweigh the (possibly) reduced fare...] Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)
