london - maputo ... pemba - london

looking to fly from London to Maputo, departing around Sat 14th Apr ... and Pemba [Mozambique] to London departing around Saturday 28th April ...

expedia.co.uk have flights with Virgin and SAA from 826 gbp ...

travelocity.co.uk has the same flights for 831 gbp ...

ebookers.co.uk has SAA flights for 882 gbp ...

opodo.co.uk is not able to quote on any flights ...

another option would be to book a LON - JNB return, and separate JNB-MPM and POL-JNB flights ... unfortunately flysaa.com does not display prices for the POL-JNB route ...


traveljungle.co.uk does not allow open jaw flights

trabber.com does not allow open jaw flights

majortravel.co.uk does not allow open jaw flights

london - johannesburg ...

looking to fly to Johannesburg, departing London around Fri 13th Apr ... and departing Johannesburg around Saturday 5th May ...

travelocity.co.uk have Kenya Airways for 444 gpb, but the return flight leaves early morning, arriving into London early morning ...

expedia.co.uk have AirFrance/KLM flights for 461 gbp, but the outbound flight leaves london early morning ... they also have Emirates flights for 487 gpb ... and DIRECT flights with SAA for 637 gbp ...

opodo.co.uk have Air France flights for 491 gbp ...

ebookers.co.uk have Kenya Airways for 452 gbp, and Emirates for 486 gbp ... SAA for 627 gbp, Virgin for 645 gpb, and BA for 655 gbp

majortravel.co.uk have KLM flights for 515 gbp ... and no availability on any other fares ...

traveljungle.co.uk have Kenya Airways and Emirates flight for similar prices, and Iberia for 468 gbp ...

trabber.com doesn't have any other fares ...


flysaa.com have flights for 617 gbp ...

virginatlantic.com have flights for 645 gbp ...

ba.com have flights for 1,127 gbp ...

dublin - johannesburg

looking to fly to Johannesburg, departing Dublin on Sat 14th Apr ... and departing Johannesburg on Saturday 5th May ...
travelocity.co.uk have AirFrance flights for 455 gbp

opodo.co.uk have KLM/AirFrance flights for 521 gbp

expedia.co.uk have KLM/AirFrance flights for the same price

ebookers.ie have BA flights for 816 eur

majortravel.co.uk does not have availability on any of its fares

johannesburg to maputo ...

looking to fly from JNB to MPM on Sat 14th or Sun 15th Apr ... returning on Sat 5th May ...

SAA have return flights for 2,016 ZAR - approx 220 eur, 146 gbp ...

SAA also have single flexible flights for 1,506 ZAR - approx 110 gbp ... but their website won't give a price on single inflexible flights ...

LAM do not have their April flights loaded on their website.

dublin - maputo ...

looking to fly to Maputo, departing Dublin on Sat 14th Apr ... and departing Maputo on Saturday 5th May ...
opodo.co.uk has Virgin flights via JNB for 675 gbp

travelocity.co.uk has KLM flights via AMS for 894 gbp

expedia.co.uk has TAP flights connecting in LIS for 940 gbp

ebookers.ie has the TAP flight for 1,425 eur

majortravel.co.uk does not have availability on any of its fares

london - maputo ...

looking to fly to Maputo, departing London on Sat 14th Apr ... and departing Maputo on Saturday 5th May ...

opodo.co.uk have Virgin/SAA flights for 544 gbp - departing LHR at 18:50, arriving in JNB at 06:55 with the connecting flight leaving at 13:50, arriving in MPM at 14:55. The return flight departs at 15:55 arriving in JNB at 17:05 with the connecting Virgin flight departing at 21:00, arriving in LHR at 06:55

expedia.co.uk have TAP flights for 657 gbp

travelocity.co.uk have the same flights for the same price - departing LGW at 16:00, arriving in LIS at 18:25 [or for an extra 5 quid, depart from LHR at 18:20] ... with the connecting flight departing LIS at 23:00 and arriving MPM at 10:45 the next day. on the way back the flight departs MPM at 10:40 arriving in LIS at 05:45 connecting to the LHR flight departing at 08:10 and arriving 10:45

the cheapest flights on ebookers.co.uk are SAA for 801 gbp

the best price on majortravel.co.uk is 764 gbp with SAA

airline-network.co.uk does not have availability on any of its fares

traveljungle.co.uk has the same Virgin and TAP fares as other websites

accommodation in Lindau or Bregenz

in order to catch the Ryanair 10:05 flight from Friedrichshafen (FDH) on sun 21st jan - the bus leaves St Anton at 5am ... an alternative would be to get the train towards Friedrichshafen on the saturday afternoon / eve, so that there is a much shorter journey on the sunday morning, and so we wouldn't need to start so early ... Lindau is approx 25km, and Bregenz is 53km from FDH ...

there are direct trains from St Anton to Lindau [dep 16:56 arr 18:26] for 21 eur, stopping at Bregenz [18:15] ... and loads of direct trains to Bregenz itself [dep 17:51 arr 19:15, dep 19:51 arr 21:06, dep 21:51 arr 23:06 etc.] ...

Lindau's accommodation options seem to be rather limited ...

Expedia.co.uk only has one hotel available for the night - Hotel Vis a Vis - costing 65 gbp for a double room for the night ... it's other hotel in Lindau - Hotel Bayerischer Hof - is not showing any availability ...

Octopustravel.co.uk only has a twin or double in the Bayerischer Hof for 124 gpb, or the Reutemann And Seegarten hotel for the same price ...

Venere.com has a double in the Hotel Garni Seerose [9 minute walk from the train station - according to deutsche bahn journey planner] available for a more reasonable 93 eur, and a triple room for 129 eur ...

laterooms.com does not have any hotels available for the night in either city

lastminute.com does not have any hotels available that night in Lindau ...

the tourism office for Lindau doesn't really have any more suggestions ...


the accommodation options in Bregenz appear to be a bit better ...

Expedia.co.uk has a bedroom for 2 persons in the Mercure for 49 gbp, a twin in the Ibis for 45 gbp, Hotel Bodensee for 63 gbp, a twin in Hotel Schwarzler for 77 gbp ... with no availability in Bw Hotel Weisses Kreuz, or Hotel Germania !

Octopustravel.co.uk [also used by ebookers.com] has a twin at the Mercure for 70 gpb, or the Schwarzler for 77 gbp ...

Venere.com doesn't have anything available that night ...

lastminute.com [owned by travelocity] has the Mercure for 45 gbp and the Ibis for 46 gbp ...

opodo.co.uk has a twin in the Hotel Bodensee for 62 gbp, a twin in the Ibis is 45 gbp, and a double/twin in the Mercure is 44 gpb ...

mercure.com has a bedroom for 2 persons for 65 eur [excl breakfast], and a single for the same price ...

ibishotel.com has a bedroom for 2 persons for 66 eur [excl breakfast], and a single for 51 eur ...


to get to FDH from Bregenz for the 10:05 ryanair flight, there is a train from Bregenz to Lindau [dep 07:48 arr 07:59], connecting to a train directly to the airport [dep 08:06 arr 08:36] costing 8.60 eur ...

dublin - friedrichshafen - london - dublin ...

dep DUB Sat 13 Jan 06:10 [arr FDH 09:25] - 14.99 eur

dep FDH Sun 21 Jan 10:05 [arr STN 10:45] - 26.84 eur

dep STN Sun 21 Jan 15:45 [arr DUB 17:00] - 6.49 gbp [approx 10 eur]

plus 4.5 eur x 3 for luggage ...

total cost 65.50 plus credit/debit card charges - approx 70 eur ...

Tenerife accommodation ... casa rurale ...

after looking for a 6 person Casa Rurale style accommodation over christmas and new year in Tenerife ... we eventually went for Antón Piche [cool location graphic - if a little noisy] ... which is close to the southern airport ...

toprural.com only have a single review - which is in spanish, and seems complimentary ... although it could be written by the owners ... you never know !

niumba.com don't have any comments at all on Anton Piche ...

annual travel insurance - 4th attempt ...

i heard an advert for PeoplesChampion as a place to find cheap travel insurance ... and it does actually seem like a proper new comparison website - most sites promising cheap travel insurance just seem to link to MoneySupermarket - this one seems to use the same display software, but is somewhat different ...

PeoplesChampion also has a very useful feature of showing Personal Accident Cover in the main comparison screen [instead of burying it in the policy detail like Money Supermarket and others - making it very time consuming to select based on this criteria] ...

the maximum Personal Accident Cover appears to be 50k gbp - with Marks and Spencers and Norwich Union providing this level ...