Ppl with fiances/So's in Europe

[CarolineM 0]

What is the SHORTEST amount of time you've spent there. Stewart and I want to take a quick trip over to visit his brother in London but we have no time off...and 100,000's of FF miles....is it worth it to go for a long weekend? Leave Thurs, come home sun? Or is that too much travel in too little time??

Just wondering.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I've done London in a long weekend (3 days) from Boston and so have people visiting me when I lived there -- easily done.

I would never do it from LA though, no.

[CarolineM 0]

I'm east coast so we could go from Orlando SUPER easy

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

you just have to try and avoid jetlag -- I've been able to do it, but I do think it requires some mental determination.

[CarolineM 0]

True. I am afraid if I don't use the FF miles I'll lose them..and I know he'd love to see his brother - although we'll see him in Oz over xmas...so maybe just hold onto them

thanks for the info

[tmma 467]

What is the SHORTEST amount of time you've spent there. Stewart and I want to take a quick trip over to visit his brother in London but we have no time off...and 100,000's of FF miles....is it worth it to go for a long weekend? Leave Thurs, come home sun? Or is that too much travel in too little time??

Just wondering.

East Coast? I say GO FOR IT! Seriously, that is do-able (imo).

Once Mark and I were half way seriously talking about meeting for a long weekend in Reykjavik ( him flying in from Amsterdam and me from Dallas). Sounded like an excellent idea at the time-till we saw ticket prices

If you have the miles and you are in use/lose status-nothing medical to prevent that much flying in such a short time-I saw go for it!

edit-and have a great time

edit- ####### am i doing with these quotes?

Edited September 25, 2006 by tmma

[Nikita2Charles 31]

Go for it if you are on the east coast

[luv2teach77 41]

My wife (when she was still my Fiancee) visited me in London for a long weekend around Valentines day. She left St. Louis early friday morning, arrived in London late friday evening, stayed the weekend and then left around lunchtime on Monday morning.

Part of the reason was that it was Valentines but the main reason was $400 round trip (when the same flights the previous summer cost nearly $1000 !!.

If you can fly during the day instead of overnight that helps with the Jetlag, it just feels like a long day which is really helpful if you only have a few days and can't really afford to spend time getting used to the time difference.

Mark

[rebeccajo 14]

Transfer the miles to me............................

[Widge 0]

Brits do weekend shopping trips to NY keeping Richard Branson in business so yup very very doable

[Fandango 1,439]

It'd be a helluva whirlwind weekend, but why the hell not?

[CarolineM 0]

Seriously considering it

Thanks for all the input though

[MHandMB 0]

I went to Paris for 4 days once. It was totally worth it! I got there Thurs, and left to go home on Monday. We had lots of time to explore. It was one of my favorite trips, actually.

If it's a choice between only going a few days and losing the FF miles, I would definitely go!