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PLANES VS TRAINS AND A GREAT HALF-TERM BREAK
Cheapflights.co.uk compares where you can get more bang for your buck when travelling away this half term. Now that spring has sprung, many people will be planning their May half-term holiday. If you are wishing to take your family further afield than the UK, Cheapflights.co.uk has come up with a comparison to show how much you can save by travelling by plane, rather than train.

For someone travelling with a budget of £ 100 per person, Cheapflights.co.uk has found the following price deals to make that half term trip a reality. Fly from London to Paris return from £ 75 with Air France, in comparison to prices from £ 129 return if you were to travel by Eurostar. Those wanting to go to Malaga in Spain, could fork out £ 245 return - travelling by Eurostar to Paris, then transferring to overnight train-hotel 'Francisco de Goya' from Paris to Madrid, then transferring to the Talgo 200 train to Malaga. After all of that you may wish that you had just got a flight from London to Malaga for £ 74 with ThomsonFly - an even better saving with less time spent travelling.

If your travel budget ranges from £ 100- £ 150 per person, why not try flying from London to Amsterdam or Barcelona. These flights start from £ 101 return on the Cheapflights.co.uk, book with the International Business Travel Centre. Taking the train option will leave you with a bigger dent in your wallet as return tickets to Barcelona will cost from £ 245 - again Eurostar to Paris, and transfer to the train-hotel 'Joan Miro' to Barcelona. A train to Amsterdam will cost from £ 149 return by taking the Eurostar from London to Brussels, then an InterCity or Thalys train from Brussels to Amsterdam. But why not head to the sunnier destination of Corfu in Greece where a return flight starts from? £ 149 with A1 Travel!

All flight prices include taxes and fees and are correct at time of publication for a travel date. Prices are subject to availability.

About Cheapflights Ltd.

Cheapflights pioneered flight price search and comparison in 1996 and has been profitable since launch. The Cheapflights flight price comparison model publishes over a million fares daily from hundreds of sources. This empowers price sensitive consumers to get an overview of flights prices, find the best deals and the companies that offer them. Once a deal is found, the Cheapflights user can click through to a price provider's site or in many cases to the provider's call-centre.

In 2003 Cheapflights launched its successful US site www.cheapflights.com. It is estimated that last year circa USD 1.8 Billion sales were achieved by our advertisers through deals published on our UK and US sites. In 2006 Cheapflights invested in the early stage Icelandic flights global schedule search and flight planner site www.dohop.com and also launched HOWZAT media LLP, an investment fund for early stage and start-up dotcoms www.howzatmedia.com.

With nearly 6.0 million unique users globally a month, Cheapflights is a leader in flights deals information and continues to develop its unique and highly successful product.

on 2007-05-14