Any way to get to the US on the cheap?

[TW]Fox;28170739 said:
You asked us how to get there on the cheap but you keep throwing obstacles at all the suggestions.
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I agree - OP wants to fly as direct as possible from a local airport and stay in a cushy hotel - which also happens to be the location of the conference, all without compromising and wants it to come in @ £1250? OP wants convenience, and convenience has a price.
 
[TW]Fox;28170963 said:
I put out on the 31st August, gives you the 470 direct flights to LAX for 470 quid. No layover. No changes. Direct.
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I see what you mean, but that's £540 with the cost of the rental car, £610 with the cost of fuel, £640 with the cost of a train to London (and that's being very optimistic because I travelled to London last week and it cost me £85 return), and probably at least £700 when you factor in an extra night in a hotel.

I do appreciate your advice here, but I'm just not seeing how I can save much -- if any -- doing it that way.
 
kissenger said:
I see what you mean, but that's £540 with the cost of the rental car, £610 with the cost of fuel, £640 with the cost of a train to London (and that's being very optimistic because I travelled to London last week and it cost me £85 return), and probably at least £700 when you factor in an extra night in a hotel.

I do appreciate your advice here, but I'm just not seeing how I can save much -- if any -- doing it that way.
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Your flights from Birmingham are awful though, the only way I'd fly Transatlantic from BHX is if it invovles a change in Dublin onto a proper plane. The American airlines who fly from Birmingham do so with crap 25-30 year old single aisle 757's, the sort of plane you'd normally use to go to Greece on holiday. And then you have to change twice on that itinerary you've found!

Aer Lingus will do a 14 hour itin from Birmingham and you get US Pre Clearance in Dublin so as soon as you land at SFO you are out the door with no waiting for immigration. That would be a much nicer journey if you have to go from Birmingham. It's £750, though.
 
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Ship yourself over in a crate. I've done it before when I ran out of money just dont eat for fews days = no need to take a dump and ur golden and take water and use it very sparingly so you don't have to relieve yourself.

(srs)
 
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anything I don't mind said:
You could jump in the back of a lorry or another way is to look for cars being imported and jump in the boot. I hear it works sometimes.

I was looking on http://www.visamapper.com/ the only two countries i could see that don't require a visa in to the US is canada and malta.

I would have liked to know what our border status was with countries before the EU because i could have sworn we have more countries on the green list before the EU. Now every country in the EU has the same green list. Isreal has more green on the list than the UK and isreal is only 60 years old. Also UK is pretty much open borders for half the world if you didnt know.

US can arrive in the UK without a visa but not the other way around.
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Not that your post has anything to do with the thread but the UK is at the top of the list for visa free travel. The British passport is the best in the world for that stuff... ;) even for places where you need some kind of visa (and the U.S. isn't one of them) it's a heck of a lot easier than most other countries.
 
Company wants you to go the pay the going rate, I travel with my job and I claim whatever the costs are, don't see why I should go budget when the company are asking me to put myself out for them.

Although If you can bring back a package for me I will cover the costs :D
 
Voicon said:
Company wants you to go the pay the going rate, I travel with my job and I claim whatever the costs are, don't see why I should go budget when the company are asking me to put myself out for them.

Although If you can bring back a package for me I will cover the costs :D
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You're lucky, most companies since the recession started insisting on you going budget. And even flying back as soon as you finish to save one night in hotel fees.
 
anything I don't mind said:
You could jump in the back of a lorry or another way is to look for cars being imported and jump in the boot. I hear it works sometimes.

I was looking on http://www.visamapper.com/ the only two countries i could see that don't require a visa in to the US is canada and malta.

I would have liked to know what our border status was with countries before the EU because i could have sworn we have more countries on the green list before the EU. Now every country in the EU has the same green list. Isreal has more green on the list than the UK and isreal is only 60 years old. Also UK is pretty much open borders for half the world if you didnt know.

US can arrive in the UK without a visa but not the other way around.
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Used to be able to do US on a visa waiver up until relatively recently.
 
OP; Please post an abstract of your paper so I (and other OCs armchair experts) can judge if your research is sufficiently important within your discipline to justify a trip/holiday to San Francisco.
 
anything I don't mind said:
US can arrive in the UK without a visa but not the other way around.
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This is not true. You can enter the US without a Visa if you hold a passport from a country belonging to the Visa Waiver Programme, of which the UK does.

Do not confuse this with an ESTA - an Electronic System for Travel Authorisation - which you require to board a ship or plane bound for the USA. An ESTA isn't a Visa, or a Visa Waiver, or indeed anything beyond authorisation to board a US bound flight or voyage. You are still granted entry (or not, as the case may be!) under the VWP when you arrive at the US port of entry.

You can still rock up at a land border with no Visa and no ESTA and be admitted under the VWP, which is exactly what I did in 2013.

Rroff said:
Used to be able to do US on a visa waiver up until relatively recently.
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You still can.
 
[TW]Fox;28171062 said:
Your flights from Birmingham are awful though, the only way I'd fly Transatlantic from BHX is if it invovles a change in Dublin onto a proper plane. The American airlines who fly from Birmingham do so with crap 25-30 year old single aisle 757's, the sort of plane you'd normally use to go to Greece on holiday. And then you have to change twice on that itinerary you've found!

Aer Lingus will do a 14 hour itin from Birmingham and you get US Pre Clearance in Dublin so as soon as you land at SFO you are out the door with no waiting for immigration. That would be a much nicer journey if you have to go from Birmingham. It's £750, though.
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I see where you're coming from on that. I wouldn't want to fly 12 hours on a 747 or something similar unless I absolutely had to.

That said, there's quite a few flights on A380s and 777s going out of/into BHX. E.g., this flight is £680 and it's on an A380 out and a 777 coming back, except for the first short hop to CDG on a smaller plane:

https://www.google.co.uk/flights/#s...O0AF80,SFOCDG0AF83-CDGBHX1BE3006;q=bhx+to+lax
 
kissenger said:
I see where you're coming from on that. I wouldn't want to fly 12 hours on a 747 or something similar unless I absolutely had to.

That said, there's quite a few flights on A380s and 777s going out of/into BHX. E.g., this flight is £680 and it's on an A380 out and a 777 coming back, except for the first short hop to CDG on a smaller plane:

https://www.google.co.uk/flights/#s...O0AF80,SFOCDG0AF83-CDGBHX1BE3006;q=bhx+to+lax
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Go with that and find a cheaper room on Airbnb, in my opinion.
 
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