So, if we fly round trip to Frankfort, we're looking at this:
The schedule I can make work with the hydrofoil schedule:
Thursday, May 17: Depart Chicago
Friday, May 18: Arrive Frankfort, Fly to Budapest
Monday, May 21: Depart Budapest, Arrive Vienna
Thursday, May 24: Depart Vienna, Arrive Ceske Krumlov
Saturday, May 26: Depart Ceske Krumlov, Arrive Prague
Tuesday, May 29, Depart Prague, Arrive Frankfort
Thursday, May 31: Depart Frankfort, Arrive Chicago
In addition to the baseline itinerary fares:
I've got round trip airfare to Frankfort at $1200/person, you can get $950 for different days.
One way from Frankfort to Budapest is $175 by plane (3.5 hours with a connection). Non-stop is over $800. We may be able to find something cheaper, I didn't put a ton of thought into it. Rail from Frankfurt to Budapest appears to be about $300 (16 hours).
So, even if we change travel dates to grab the $950 fare, I'm not sure our overall travel costs are any cheaper than $1,625.
So Frankfurt doesn't make much sense.
ReplyDeleteApparently not, although it sure seems like it should. I forgot to even get us back to Frankfurt from Prague.
ReplyDeleteWe could, in theory, take an overnight train, save lodging for a night.