What do you consider reasonable - flight cost to Europe for a few nights?

[hollyblueivy]

I'd like to do a city break (on the cheap or as reasonable as possible) but I am not sure what the going rate is for flights to Europe.

Two adults. How much would you be willing to pay?

I'm thinking Madrid, Malaga, Italy, Seville somewhere like that from Thurs to Sun ish.

In my head I'm thinking up to £200. Preferably less but I don't really want to pay much more than that.

Trying to get a bit of a sense check as to what people generally pay for these kind of trips.

That's £200 per person, not total.

Have a look at skscanner to see the range for where you want to go to and from.

Hello, it's also worth thinking about flights vs accommodation, e.g. one place might have more expensive flights but cheaper accommodation.

I agree - use skyscanner as a base to start working out flights. For reference, I paid £250 per person for flights to Seville in June and found accommodation to be really reasonable and food and drink was cheap, so overall it was affordable.

Also just to add, sometimes you see really cheap flights but if they're crazy early in the morning or late, it can really impact the trip if you're only going for a short time.

Just go on easyket or ryanair website and play around with some dates from your local airport!
i've paid £260 with no luggage other than the very small cabin bag for one European city weekend this year and another is £50!

Personally I'd never pay more than £100pp for Europe unless I was desperate to go somewhere at a certain time (so skiing over half term etc was more than that).

That being said I only fly cheap airlines (whizz air, Ryanair or occasionally easyJet), am happy to fly super early/late and have the London airports to fly from, so I normally have some choice.

You could also try “Love holidays” for flights and accommodation.

We went to Prague in February for five nights stayed in a lovely hotel (4 stars with a 4.5 average review on trip advisor) for less than £200 each. This also included breakfast! We paid £55 extra for luggage and spent less than £5 on transport (tram) from the airport to the hotel.

It helps if you can be flexible with your dates and times you are willing to travel.

We do girls weekends a couple of times a year and I normally keep flights below 200 euros each including a booked seat and carry on bag. Check Skyscanner or Google flights for your dates and then go to the airline. Worth signing up for mails with e.g. Ryanair / Easyjet so you get mails about special offers. If you go with an underseat bag only and don;t worry about sitting together you can get some proper bargains. My dd is off all over the place and never pays more than 50 euros for a ticket. I don't like to rough it quite so much though.

Skyscanner / Google - you can choose "anywhere" as the destination.

My price thresholds for return flights for travel in the school holidays (we live in the North so London airports not an option)
Cheap - £100/person or less including seat reservations.
Acceptable £100-200/person including seat reservations
Expensive > £200/person
Luggage extra, but we never take more than 20kg for all of us. Maybe if we needed ski stuff we might take more luggage.

Having a few destinations in mind, as you have, helps keep the price down, I always price flights for all my options and them pick the cheapest.

Just before Xmas I paid £250 pp. For flights from Luton to Pisa and hotel B&B in Florence Fri-Mon. Easyjet holiday.

We’ve just had 5 nights in Portugal for 2, costing £750 total for flights and 4* hotel with breakfast, Jet2.

We just spent 8 days in Malaga (adjusted dates to make it cheaper - 8 nights were cheaper than 7) and it was £1,000 return for 6 of us with one 20kg bag.

I told two people, one said "that's not bad" the other said "wow that's expensive!" 😬. I'm in the middle really, it was 12 plane seats - which is a lot, obviously, but still felt like more than we were expecting it to cost. Maybe we are spoilt really with all these budget airlines.