Has anyone done a “extreme day trip”?

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Well mines not a extreme day trip but will be 47 hours (2 nights ) in gran canaria
The one I’m looking at arrives at 5pm Monday and leaves 4pm Wednesday.
Do you think this is worth it ?
Hotel is 30 mins away
Will have to leave at say 1.30pm on the Wednesday

I think for the planet, no.
Plus it sounds stressful and an absolute pain for a few hours of sunshine. Imagine if there were delays, you could have barely any time there.
Packing and airports and travel - doesn't sound relaxing. Book a quirky airbnb somewhere beautiful in the UK and have a spa day.

I had to go to Barcelona for the day for work. Had to get up at 4am and was home about 9pm. I was absolutely exhausted, didn't really get very long in Barcelona (not that it mattered - was there on business), and was absolutely exhausted afterwards (I actually got sick as a result). I don't see how it would be enjoyable or a good use of money when going for a holiday. I'd rather enjoy a longer time somewhere. If I could only afford 1 night in a hotel, I'd rather not go abroad. I'd go somewhere in the UK instead for the day. For example, I'd book a spa day or something and actually relax and enjoy myself.

Also when I was a student in Newcastle in the 80s, a bunch of us hitched to Liverpool in pairs, caught the overnight ferry to Dublin (£10 with a litre of duty free thrown in), spent the day looking round the city, caught the night ferry back and hitched back to Newcastle the next day.

Technically it took three days I suppose, but it had proper day trip energy. 😁

Totally off topic, but thanks for replying to my post on another (now deleted) thread.
I saw your user name replied on one of those MN alerts and coincidently you're here. 😊

Just returned from an EDT to Disneyland Paris- left the house at 4.30am to get the Eurostar, spent 5 hours in the park and returned through my front door at 12.15am! It was very tiring, but to me it was worth it

Yeah but it's still much less faff. You can arrive an hour before instead of two, plus travelling to the airport takes so much longer. The train station is physically smaller too so there's much less walking. Also, the destination train station is right in the middle of whichever city you're going to.

Being in the air has an effect on your body, too, it's more tiring than sitting on a train.

How much are the flights?

isn’t the intent behind an extreme day trip also affordability, so by going for a day you:

1. aren’t paying for a hotel to sleep
2. can do it in a day, 5 hour flight isn’t that

as such you’re paying a lot of money - flight and 2 nights hotel for what is essentially one day.

Not really worth it unless it’s bargain basement prices?