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Any comments and suggestions are welcome last minute airline tickets Nothing is set in stone yet. We know we won't be able to see much, but wanted to get a feel for the UK and felt the best way was to drive rather than flying from one city to another.
Your London York Edinburgh legs make no sense by car. They would IF you had time to explore, but you wouldn't. This part really only makes sense by train. And you dont want/need last minute airline tickets a car in any of the 3 cities. Then the Ireland bits are maybe even worse. You won't need a car in Dublin and you are giving yourselves about 1.5 days for 'rural/scenic' Ireland.
- If you're flying from America it's stupid to the point of simple criminality to step off an overnight flight into a self drive car. Then driving it into London is prima facie grounds for having you deported.
- It's almost as stupid (but not criminal) to drive it, even after a night's proper sleep, last minute airline tickets into London, where you'll be paying up to 50 a day in parking and congestion charges for a lump of metal that's completely useless for most tourists as an option for getting round
- From York to Dublin, there's a kind of logic. But again: last minute airline tickets in York, Edinburgh and Dublin, you're lumbered with a lump of useless metal that's going to cost a fortune to park and take up serious last minute airline tickets tourism time getting rid of.
- from Killarney to Newport (why Newport? last minute airline tickets Have you any idea what a dump it is?) is a horrible last minute airline tickets drive, generally with a choice between sailings around 0900 (which last minute airline tickets mean leaving Killarney about 0400) or around 2100 (getting you into Newport around 0400.
Kaustav, just checking do you mean Milton Keynes, which is way out of London. Flanners point about driving after a long flight is well made. Note that you are also on the wrong side of the road with different rules (for instance no "undertaking").
Driving last minute airline tickets from flat MK to flat York up a flat motorway (boring), last minute airline tickets I'd catch the train. York for one night is a bit meh (have you done much driving inside a medieval city?). Going north to Edinburgh by car is a bit more interesting and living near York I'd not do it compared to catching a train (and I already own my car).
Basically very few cities in the UK are designed for the car, except possibly for Milton Keynes (just so you know Milton Keynes [which I've lived and worked in] makes most Brits smile because of its crazy city layout which is just mad [all those right angles and straight roads])
As bilbo says, the drive from York to Edinburgh is great . . . But not if York and Edinburgh are your aims. You won't have any time for Hadrian's wall or Lindesfarne, or st Abbs Head, or anything. (You really won't have much time for York itself)
You should also be aware that most hire companies will not allow you to take a car across last minute airline tickets to Northern Ireland and into the Republic and back again. If they do, there will be a big insurance charge and other surcharges.
After reading all the responses I'm actually thinking last minute airline tickets about cancelling the car reservation. I really enjoy driving and have done some long drives last minute airline tickets in the past, but I kinda see it doesn't give us much time to see these locations.
Dotheboyshall's plan is good and pretty efficient. Still very rushed, but ticks all your boxes. If Belfast was just there originally because last minute airline tickets of the ferry - then even better would be to fly from Scotland last minute airline tickets to Dublin and skip Belfast.
I reckon on 14 days to see the island of Ireland and get something out of it. Scotland slightly less, London you can keep Dublin's not much better and Belfast is good for a couple of days as a touring base.
A road trip to those places is a great idea - IF you had another last minute airline tickets 8 or 9 days to actually see some things along the way. We have done several road trips in the UK and loved them - but first we spend several days in London, then picked up the car to drive around versus last minute airline tickets various routes - ending up in York or in Edinburgh and dropping the car there to fly home - or on to Paris.