Layovers!

So when booking your flights you may be similar to myself and wish to find the best deal. Something to keep in mind is there may be a flight that is slightly cheaper but has a short layover. This may seem great in two ways, the first is less money spent and the second is less time waiting to catch the next flight. Beware of layovers that are less than an hour. I have been let down by this on several incidents. One of the times I thought my layover time would be enough I was near the back of the plane and the airport we landed at used buses to transport passengers. The issue was that they only had one bus working and it took over an hour and half to deplane. The issue was my layover was only for an hour and fifth teen minutes. While the airline was willing to get me another flight it was not going to be until the next day. In order to get a flight that day but five hours later I had to catch a bus to another airport an hour away. Bottom line is I will never cheap out and by picking the slightly less ticket but have under an hour layover. I usually will pick one that is around two hours.

The plus of a long layover- So I have used a long layover to my advantage as well. I have use a 23 hour layover to spend a day in Dublin, and a 26 hour layover in Madrid in the past. While this might be a source of inconvenient for some, I saw this as an opportunity to have a bonus destination added usually in the tale end of my adventure. One that I purposefully added to add excitement even though that experience was coming to a close it would with a fun end.