Flights Trains Airport Parking, Hotels & Travel Insurance
All our destinations can be reached by low-cost airlines from a wide range of regional airports in the UK,
and there are some tremendous bargains to be snapped up. We can provide you with information about which
airlines fly to each Upland Escapes destination, and can hold your booking provisionally for up to 3 days
to allow you time to arrange your flights, either directly with the airline or through your travel agent.
Although we do not sell flights ourselves, we are happy to help find the right flight for you and to arrange
for you to offset your flight carbon emissions if you wish.
This table indicates which airports in the UK & Ireland have direct flights serving the airports closest to our Upland Escapes destinations. Please note that airlines change their schedules regularly and without warning. The information provided is accurate to the best of our knowledge.
| Airport | Pescara |
Rome Ciampino |
Ancona | Nice | Trieste | Klagenfurt | Salzburg | Ljubljana | Venice Marco Polo |
Venice Treviso |
Las Palmas |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London Heathrow | BA | BA | |||||||||
| London Gatwick | EZ | BA, EZ | JP | BA, EZ, TO | EZ, TO, TC, MO | ||||||
| London Stansted | FR | FR | FR | EZ | FR | FR | FR | EZ | FR | TO, TC, FC, FR | |
| London Luton | EZ | TO, MO, FR | |||||||||
| London City | BA | ||||||||||
| Southampton | BE | ||||||||||
| Bournemouth | FR, TO | ||||||||||
| Bristol | EZ | EZ | FR | TC, FR | |||||||
| Exeter | TO | ||||||||||
| Birmingham | WW | FR | TO, MO, TC, FR | ||||||||
| Cardiff | TO, TC | ||||||||||
| East Midlands | FR | WW | TO, TC, FR | ||||||||
| Manchester | LS | JP | TO, LS | TO, MO, TC | |||||||
| Liverpool | FR | EZ | FR | FR | |||||||
| Donc./Sheffield | TO | ||||||||||
| Leeds/Bradford | LS | LS | FR | TC | |||||||
| Newcastle | EZ | EZ | TO, TC | ||||||||
| Glasgow | TO, TC | ||||||||||
| Glasgow (PIK) | FR | FR | |||||||||
| Edinburgh | FR | EZ | LS | FR | |||||||
| Belfast | EZ | TC | |||||||||
| Dublin | FR | FR, EI | JP | EI | FR | EI, FR | |||||
| Shannon | FR | FR |
| The Majella: | Pescara (1 hour); Rome Ciampino & Ancona (2½ hours) |
|---|---|
| The Mercantour: | Nice (2 hours) |
| The Julian Alps | Trieste (1½ hours); Klagenfurt (2 hours); Ljubljana (2-2½ hrs), Venice Marco Polo & Venice Treviso (2½-3 hours) |
| The Carinthian Alps: | Klagenfurt (1½ hours); Ljubljana (2 hours); Trieste (2½ hours); Salzburg (2½-3 hours). |
| Gran Canaria: | Las Palmas (1½ hours) |
| The Rhinogs: | Birmingham, Manchester & Liverpool (2¾ hours). |
| Key | Airline | Website | Phone number |
|---|---|---|---|
| BA | British Airways | www.ba.com | +44 (0)870 850 9850 |
| BD | British Midland | www.flybmi.com | +44 (0)870 607 0555 |
| BE | Flybe | www.flybe.com | +44 (0)871 700 2000 |
| EI | Aer Lingus | www.aerlingus.com | +44 (0)870 8765 000 |
| EZ | easyJet | www.easyjet.com | +44 (0)905 821 0905 |
| FR | Ryan Air | www.ryanair.com | +44 (0)871 246 0000 |
| JP | Adria Airways | www.adria-airways.com | +44 (0)20 7437 0143 |
| LS | Jet2 | www.jet2.com | +44 (0)871 226 1737 |
| MO | Monarch | www.flymonarch.com | +44 (0)870 040 5040 |
| TC | Thomas Cook | +44 (0)870 750 5711 | |
| TO | Thomsonfly | www.thomsonfly.com | +44 (0)870 190 0737 |
| WW | bmibaby | www.bmibaby.com | +44 (0)871 224 0224 |
There are many reasons why some people prefer not to fly if offered an alternative. If the idea of traveling on some of Europe’s excellent trains to reach your Upland Escape appeals to you, we are happy to provide you with information on how this can be achieved and book tickets for you. Although this option is impractical for Gran Canaria, the Majella, the Carinthian Alps and the Julian Alps can be reached in about 24 hours in the comfort of a private sleeper-cabin, and with the chance to dine in Paris, and breakfast in Milan, Bologna or Venice. The Mercantour can easily be reached in a day or there is also the option of taking an overnight train, arriving in Nice in time for coffee and croissants. The Rhinogs and the Cotswolds can be reached from all over the UK with ease. We are also happy to arrange for you to offset your train carbon emissions if you wish.
Below are some examples of how you could reach our Upland Escapes by train:
| The Majella (out via Milan on The Stendhal, back via Bologna on The Palatino) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
OUTBOUND |
INBOUND |
|||
St Pancras Paris Nord |
14:04 17:26 |
Pescara Bologna (arr) |
15:50 19:04 |
|
Paris Bercy Milan (arr) |
20:33 05:38 |
Bologna (dep) Paris Bercy |
22:31 09:16 |
|
Milan (dep) Pescara |
07:05 12:05 |
Paris Nord St Pancras |
11:13 12:29 |
|
| The Julian Alps & The Carinthian Alps (to Venice on The Stendhal) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
OUTBOUND |
INBOUND |
|||
St Pancras Paris Nord |
14:04 17:26 |
Venice S Lucia Paris Bercy |
19:57 08:19 |
|
Paris Bercy Venice S Lucia |
20:33 09:34 |
Paris Nord St Pancras |
10:13 11:28 |
|
| The Rhinogs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
OUTBOUND |
INBOUND |
|||
Birmingham New Street Harlech |
10:24 14:13 |
Harlech Birmingham New Street |
12:25 16:26 |
|
| The Mercantour – (day train) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
OUTBOUND |
INBOUND |
||
St Pancras Lille Europe (arr) |
06:20 09:07 |
Nice Lille Europe (arr) |
10:32 17:36 |
Lille Europe (dep) Nice |
10:30 17:55 |
Lille Europe (dep) St Pancras |
18:35 19:03 |
| The Mercantour – (overnight on the Train Bleu) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
OUTBOUND |
INBOUND |
||
St Pancras Paris Nord |
15:02 18:17 |
Nice Paris Austerlitz |
21.01 07:46 |
Paris Austerlitz Nice |
22:25 08:47 |
Paris Nord St Pancras |
10:13 11:28 |
| The Cotswolds | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
OUTBOUND |
INBOUND |
|||
London Paddington Charlbury |
09:51 11:06 |
Charlbury London Paddington |
12:31 13:59 |
|
If your flight departs from the UK very early in the morning you may wish to arrange to stay the night before in an airport hotel. You may also wish to park your car at the airport (booking a hotel often gets a great deal on parking) or purchase travel insurance for you and your party. Upland Escapes does not sell these services but has used Holiday Extras in the past and they have proved to be very reliable and competitively priced. If you are interested in any of these services, please do click the links below. If you would prefer to book your holiday insurance by speaking directly to a Holiday Extras Travel Insurance expert, please call 0870 844 2742, quoting reference WV424.
We are pleased to have teamed up with Cotswold Outdoor to ensure that you have all the equipment that you may need for your holiday. We especially recommend that you have comfortable walking boots with ankle support, and waterproofs. You will also benefit from the use of walking pole(s), as much of the walking that you will be doing will be on a gradient, a daypack, warm but lightweight clothing and walking socks. We suggest that you have a sunhat, sunglasses and suncream, and you may also wish to carry a basic first aid kit, whistle and compass. If you are interested in purchasing any of these items, you may wish to click on the Cotswold Outdoor link which will take you through directly to their website.
