Has anyone done an extreme day trip?

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Well I guess mine would be 24hours
Next weekend 7pm flight to Alicante and lands at 10pm
Return home the next day at 9pm departure and gets home for 11pm
Flights with Ryanair for £34.99 and hotel is £85 in Alicante

Im so tempted
Cheked weather and next Sunday is showing as 24degrees

Not yet but someone I know has booked one to Italy for in a few weeks time.
I don’t think I’d bother with one that included an overnight in a hotel tbh.
The person I know is flying early one morning and back late the same night so can sleep pn the flight and once home.

I think it’s not for me - I don’t like to rush - but it’s probably worth trying. Worst that could happen is that you don’t enjoy it so don’t do
it again

I think they look brilliant fun, but I'm nearly 50 and need a couple of hours on a bed mid afternoon if I'm on holiday, can't keep going all day 😂 (and a cafe wouldn't cut it..!)

I do think yours sounds great presumably it's beach not sight seeing?

does trying to leave the house with 4 kids count? 🤣

we have done a few Paris day trips which was good

Not intentionally, but I had to go and pick up someone from Krakow at short notice (2 hour flight time) and it was fucking knackering doing two flights in 18 hours.

Are you close to the airport? You’d have to add on extra for that and when you land. It would be better value for a long weekend but go for it if you think you’d enjoy it.

There are also the environmental factors to consider if that’s important.

It depends where you are in the UK

But we are forecast 23° for the same day

i've never done that ridiculously long day trip

It's not something I would do. It seemed a bit mad. If it's like a special invitation or something. But otherwise I don't see why anyone would do it.

What's the point of it?
Is the fun meant to be in rushing around?

We did one to Palma. Fun but absolutely knackering. I also had it take into account taxis - if I am out from 3.30 to pick up an early flight I’m not driving home at 10pm - it’s too risky.

also there is the worry about a major delay - ours went smoothly and a bit of Spanish sun was nice in February.

I've done two. One to Edinburgh and one to Copenhagen - both for Christmas markets. I joined the EDT group on Facebook and thought it looked fun and it was.

I'd be too concerned if there were flight delays or cancellations - particularly with the new EES system rules, which could mean delays just in trying to get airside.

But maybe I am a boring old so-and-so, I think the most extreme I have done is Breakfast in Marseilles, lunch in Monte Carlo and dinner in Ventimiglia - three meals in three different countries in one day. Think it took us a little under 20 hours as we wanted to do some sight-seeing along the way. We were staying in Marseilles with family, so if we had been delayed it wouldn't have been an issue, just a pain in the neck.

It's absolutely awful for the environment this trend of flying somewhere just for a day! I'd be too embarrassed to admit it to anyone if I did this.

I saw an article about this recently and couldn't get my head around it. Just because it's affordable, doesn't mean it should be done - climate crisis and all. I really wish the cost of services covered all the actual costs, it's bonkers.

Aside from that, the majority of flights I've had to take recently have been delayed which I think might rather defeat the purpose!

I get it but the planes are flying anyway

Almost, I once spent less than 24 hours in Australia to attend a funeral.

@FlamingoFloss If fewer people chose to take these trips, airlines would reduce the number of flights accordingly, so demand from extreme day trippers absolutely does shape how much flying happens

Yes this did occur to me too - my own trip was done on the TGV, I would have felt bad at flying for essentially city hopping.

Surely the flights are already scheduled and they're just flogging the last of the empty seats 🤷🏼‍♀️

See I prefer the night in hotel
As im useless on no sleep or not much sleep
I would rather spend £85 and then have a day the next day

We live 15 mins to the airport on a shuttle train which costs £4

Many years ago. I went to Vienna for the day close to Christmas. It was magical.

Only to Paris on the Eurostar and I live on London so a 40 min tube ride from the station.

I’ve done loads of trips for work though from London for only a day - Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Brussels - does that count?

We did Belfast in 36 hours. Live near an airport and got flights for £160 all in for 4 of us, booked a premier inn for £50, landed one lunchtime, ate in the city then walked over to the Titanic museum and spent the afternoon/early evening there, out for tea, then found an amazing deli in the city for breakfast the next morning, quick mooch around the city centre then home. We’d wanted to do the titanic museum for ages and we really enjoyed the taster we got of the city - hubby and I want to go back without the kids for longer!

Wow, from the Uk? Thats brutal.

Yes. We went to Palma. It was fun and not particularly exhausting. We strolled about and saw whatever we saw. Planning on doing one to Dublin soon for a parkrun.