Consider a mini-break while on your London trip

London Ryanair One of the great things about visiting London on a holiday is that it’s rather easy to take a short break from London to visit another city in the region. If you are coming from the States and you book, say, a week in London, it’s actually easy and surprisingly popular to book a cheap flight out of London to Amsterdam or Dublin or Paris, which will add some nice contrast to your trip.

And since London is pretty much the most expensive city in Europe for visitors (and even for locals) you can actually save enough money in the break city to pay for the cheap and short flight out of England. As summer approaches the prices will go up for these short flights in the region, and obviously availability becomes more competitive, but if you plan ahead you can still get a flight that is surprisingly cheap, and probably cheaper than if you’d planned an open-jaw flight from the start.

Right now you can get some really good deals for mini-breaks out of London, so if you are planning a longer trip here you might consider pricing out a short hop as part of your stay. Getting to Heathrow is quite cheap on the tube, so even coming and going right in the middle of your stay isn’t really a budget-buster. But you could also try to book, say, 2 days in Paris for the final two days of your London stay, and plan your flight back to Heathrow to arrive a couple hours before your trip out of London is scheduled. This can be a great strategy to get more bang from your trip without spending much, if any, more money.