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

I would love to do this. Ideally Palma. It would be interesting to see if you could do this whole thing for the same/cheaper than a day in London.
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This. Maybe I've just been unlucky but we travel quite a lot and almost every flight we've taken over the last few years has been delayed.

There was a couple on our flight to Dubai (before anyone asks why Dubai, it was a stopover) doing a one night stay and the flight was about 4 hours delayed! Not worth it.

Airports are the worst part of travel for me, I don't think I could be bothered with the hassle for one day.

Id ditch the hotel. Take the very earliest flight, 5am ish spend the day sightseeing then get a 11pm flight home.
You'd get the same amount of time there without paying to sleep. Just make sure you've got the following day off work 😁

Eco crime

The sooner killer airport taxes are brought in to stop such insanity the better
(see also private jets flying to the med for lunch)

I think your overnight stay sounds worth it OP, as it’s the very early starts for the 7 am flights that are the killer. Ideally of course you would get a flight out mid morning rather than 7 pm so you would get the majority of two days there, but I guess the price of the flights would go up.

I would of done the early flight but our airport is a small airport so we are very limited on flights /routes

Wow 😳

I think the entry/exit system causing delays and all sorts of problems would kill this idea for me. Not a fan of airports anyway.

I can't say I'm tempted and DH definitely wouldn't be, simply because he's fairly often had to do a quick turnaround trip for work and knows it's tiring.

When DH was working in Tokyo for 2 months, one trip DS and I took out there was 6 days as it was timed for uni reading week. It was great fun, but we both felt we'd only just settled to the time difference/jet lag effects in time to start thinking about going home 🤣

The extreme day trips website and Facebook groups are good for finding what's possible from your local airport. Obviously some have much better choice than others.

@Mummadeze and any other clubbers/night owls. I saw on the EDT FB group that someone got an afternoon flight to Ibiza, went out for dinner when they got there and then went clubbing overnight because they generally don't get going until after midnight and go on until 4/6 am. Then they booked into a beach club for brunch and to sleep on a sun lounger for a few hours before flying home. Not for me, but I thought that was genius.

I wish and don’t that city airport was allowed more flights on a Sunday as it’s local and I could just zip off for the day/weekend.
Have done Edinburgh for the day from London twice for shows and that worked well.

I have vetoed any trips less than one week duration, add to that silly o’clock check ins and late home arrivals.

So this wouldn’t be for me - I can’t tolerate all the schlepping to the airport car park at 4am, waiting for the shuttle bus in the freezing dark, the shuffling and stripping off through security, getting airside for 6am and seeing everyone munching down food - then the whole high alert waiting for the gate number, queuing/shuffling to get on the plane - that’s 3-4hrs before the plane has even taken off - before trekking into the city centre of a place only an hours flight away but you have now been ‘travelling’ for nearly 12hrs - then do the same in reverse 6hrs later. Nope

Staying overnight doesn’t count as EDT.

Hard agree with this.

What is the point, OP?

A quick google would tell you that cow farts/burps account for around 14.5% of greenhouse gas vs 3.5% caused by aviation. So if you’re concerned about climate change, it’s better to eliminate dairy and beef from your diet.

Dd did the Auschwitz Holocaust Association trip. Pick up at 12.00, get there early morning, fly back late evening. Even at 17 she was knackered and emotionally wrecked.
DH used to bird and did a Big Year (see as many birds as possible) so he'd do things like set off at 10pm drive to Cornwall, or Scotland, see the bird, drive back in a day.