Will this journey time be TOO long?

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To cut a long story short I have this as an option to get home from Australia -
(wan to be home in time for the Arsenal & Chelsea game you see)

17hour train journey on the Ghan railway (saves about $110 over a 3hour flight and $30 or so on accomadation)
Then
a 12 hour greyhound bus journey over night (again $25 on a/m and saves about $70 on a 2hour flight)
Then
Fly home via Dubai with Emirates airlines on a 24hour flight. :o

So ok you can read books listen to music and watch as many films etc - but do you think that will all be too much back to back. 3 nights of travelling without a bed etc?

Other option is if I hang around a bit and get some crapy airline thats a 30hour journey and would save about $200 but wouldnt have to do it all back to back -

What do you think ? :confused:
 
that's also assuming everything goes to plan, with that many changes there is so much to go wrong. I'd personally find the extra dosh and get a proper flight home.

Tom.
 
that's also assuming everything goes to plan, with that many changes there is so much to go wrong. I'd personally find the extra dosh and get a proper flight home.
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True - but the flight does not begin until the monday morning.
train wont be delayed and have hours to kill afterwards anyway and the Greyhounds are always on time - dont see another car for ages!! lol

Just thinking leave saturday afternoon and arrive home tuesday afternoon lol

Funny thing is the 'easier' way home is $200 cheaper but with an awful airline and means I'd have a few days to kill :confused:
 
Two words come to find when I think of spending that long travelling - **** that!

I had a crappy journey back from Arizona last week (Phoenix - Chicago - Heathrow) which made for about 20 hours, and that was bad enough.
 
That must be such a horrible prospect, having to kill a couple of days in Australia! There's nothing to do out there. :p
 
if you travel in the opposite direction can you save a day? :)
The 'Holiday' TV show last week had lots of different options of where to take your stopover
 
Back in the day... My dad used to travel from England to Finland to see the woman who subsequently became his wife and my mother. This was about 40 years ago, and back then that meant getting a ferry to France and then taking a train all the way through Europe and up to Finland. He read a lot of books doing those journeys. All three volumes of LOTR on one trip apparently.
 
Not overly looking forward to the travel home lol
Trust me killing time in a place you've done everything is pretty hard specially when you dont want to waste any cash!

Sorted it all though 0-/
Got a 17hour train (wanted to do it in the end - is through the outback after all!)
Then a 1hour flight to melbourne (only cost $60 more than the 12hour bus in the end) and then the flight home with Emirates!! whooooooo bring on tehe 300+ selection of movies!!
 
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