Flight Options Part 2

Did some research on the cost of flying city to city in Europe. I added Berlin just in case we find cheap round trip flights to/from there from Chicago. I'm just guessing that might be a good option.

I would prefer to travel via train, but I thought we should at least look into flying some parts of the journey just so we can weigh our various transportation options. We can combo train, plane, car, boat, jet ski, etc. as we see necessary.

I priced things out on or near Sept. 1, 2011, obviously I can't know exactly what day works the best. If non-stop was available, I selected that, even if there was a one stop that was much cheaper. I assumed that if we couldn't get non-stop, it wasn't worth comparing to the train.

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Train Options

I did some research re: train options between the cities that we are looking to explore.

Based on my research we can travel between the cities we want to go fairly easy via train and fairly cheap.

I'm thinking that we can fly in/out of Warsaw/Krakow and travel to Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna, Prague, and back to Warsaw/Krakow via train.

Vienna to Prague is 4 1/2 hours via train for $147 a person.
Warsaw to Budapest is $274 a person.
Krakow to Budapest is $167 a person.
Prague to Warsaw is $143 a person.
Prague to Krakow is $200 a person.
We can do these legs overnight since they are longer.

It's a no brainer to do Budapest, Bratislava, and Vienna because they are so close together.