BS: HELP with London airports

Subject: BS: HELP with London airports
From: JWB
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 12:28 PM

I'm planning some travel in Europe next month, and wonder if any UK 'Catters could advise me on getting from one London airport to another. I'm considering flying from Paris to London-Luton on one day, and flying out of Stanstead on the next, bound for Denmark (this seems to be the cheapest and quickest way of getting from Paris to Aarhus).

What's involved in getting from Luton to Standstead? And where would you recommend I spend the night near Standstead, so I can catch an early flight?

Thanks for any help.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: HELP with London airports
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 04:22 PM

You might be interested in the, Jerry

A travelers toolkit for London

I have not made the journey myself but the shuttle bus seems to make an easy journey of it:-)

Good luck and if you are up in the North West of England on your travels be sure to look us up in Manchester!

I see canals, this is Amsterdam...

Cheers

Dave the Gnome

Subject: RE: BS: HELP with London airports
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 05:45 PM

Don't know about trains from Stanstead, the shuttle bus service is pretty good, but there are good, regular trains from the centre of London to Luton.

Have you checked out City Airport at all? They land in the middle of Docklands and have excellent links to the whole of London by car, bus and rail. They also do international flights, but the take off is a little precipitous.... it appears to go up at about 45 degrees or more to avoid the Canary Wharf towers.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: HELP with London airports
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 06:13 PM

Stansted (Stanstead is somewhere else) is served by a good express train from Liverpool Street Station in London.

I was gooing ti look up the train times for you from this site - but wouldn't you know it, there's a message up there saying ,"National Rail Enquiries -
Sorry, the site is currently closed for routine maintenance, please try again at a later time."

Subject: RE: BS: HELP with London airports
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Sep 03 - 04:56 PM

Routine Maintenance - that's more than the bloody rails get!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: HELP with London airports
From: M.Ted
Date: 24 Sep 03 - 05:57 PM

No help for the airport switch thing--but it seems surprising that flying from Paris to London, with attendant local transit costs, an overnight in a London hotel, and then a flight to Denmark, with attendant local transit costs, would be either less expensive or less time consuming than say, a railway ticket from Paris to Arhus--especially if you got a Eurailpass--

Subject: RE: BS: HELP with London airports
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 25 Sep 03 - 03:02 AM

There is a hilton at Stanstead with a free bus service to the terminal. Nice pool gym sauna and steam.
Keith.

Subject: RE: BS: HELP with London airports
From: GUEST,Grauniad
Date: 25 Sep 03 - 12:21 PM

Mcgrath - there must be a rule somewhere against getting your Mudcat posts printed a day later in the Guardian's letters page.

Subject: RE: BS: HELP with London airports
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 25 Sep 03 - 01:17 PM

Yeah, that was fun - Last letter on the page.

Subject: RE: BS: HELP with London airports
From: GUEST,Peter from Essex
Date: 25 Sep 03 - 07:35 PM

Eight direct coaches daily between Luton and Stansted, 90 minute journey.
Click here

Travelling via London is a serious detour.

Subject: RE: BS: HELP with London airports
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 26 Sep 03 - 04:14 AM

Makes a change from Keith Flett, Kev!
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: HELP with London airports
From: JWB
Date: 26 Sep 03 - 05:31 PM

I know it sounds crazy to zigzag around, but I found that flying Paris to London to Denmark, with an overnight stay in between, really was cheaper by at least 60 pounds. Of course, I could have taken an overnight train through Hamburg, in a second-class seat the whole way, but the aches and sleeplessness wouldn't have been worth the savings: I'm no backpacking 20-something.   Besides, this way I get a night of drinking English draught beer.

Thanks for all the help. Any chance there'd be folk music in a Dunmow pub on a Thursday evening?

Subject: RE: BS: HELP with London airports
From: GUEST,Peter from Essex
Date: 27 Sep 03 - 10:36 AM

No sessions in the Dunmow area on a Thursday but you could try the folk club in Bishops Stortford.

Details of all clubs and sessions in Essex here

Subject: RE: BS: HELP with London airports
From: JWB
Date: 28 Sep 03 - 10:51 PM

Peter,

Thanks for the tip. McGrath of Harlow mentioned this same club to me, and they are having a singers' night on October 16, so I will be there!

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: HELP with London airports
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 17 Oct 03 - 03:46 PM

And Jerry was at Stortfolk last night and he gave us a few great songs from New England. The Mudcat gets you places you'd never have known were there.

Next stop on his European tour is Denmark, he told me - where he's been promised there should be some good sessions.

Subject: RE: BS: HELP with London airports
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 17 Oct 03 - 04:10 PM

Rats! - I'm guesting at Stortfolk next Thursday with Les Sullivan. Sorry, Jerry to have missed you by a week!

Kitty

PS Hope you made your flight!

Subject: RE: BS: HELP with London airports
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 17 Oct 03 - 04:11 PM

And I've just realised this was a genuine music related thread, not a BS one!