Help! stuck in Madrid!
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- akrok0
you can check here, pepe. >> http://www.flightradar24.com/
- bigtrickagain0
hope you put your time in lisboa to good use. find a good bar and sample some of the ports!
- forbes0
you should definitely hit sintra while there. its outside of lisbon to the left.. awesome place
- raf0
Tip: daily/weekly bus/tram/metro ticket is good for Santa Justa Elevator and those skewed trams (funiculars) as well. Be sure to ride them all!
Jumping on and off old trams in random interesting looking places turned out to be the most fun way to sightsee Lisbon
- benfal990
get drunk and party
- Continuity0
Have you looked into Eurolines coaches? There _must_ be service to Libson, surely.
- ismith0
Too bad I'm not in Madrid because I would totally help you out... good luck!
- Centigrade0
Get the small train out to the beach. It's easy to get to and the town is beautiful. There's also a smaller section which would be good for kids. Ask a local for where the beach is and they'll send you here. Oh and get taxis everywhere, they are so cheap it's almost ,like there are free.
- boy you must have lots of money out there... we don't have money to ride a taxi everywhere, it's not cheap for usESKEMA
- us...ESKEMA
- 5 euro when I was there for basically anywhere in the city.Centigrade
- But I was living in Dublin at the time where it's 5 euro to just sit in a smelly cab.Centigrade
- I'm using he subway. Less than 1 euro and pretty quick. I'm happy with that :)jfletcher
- raf0
All I know is this: http://madrid.loquo.com/ce/commu…
- jfletcher0
ok, looks like we found a bus service, a woman with a map to the subway to get to the bus. Waiting to try and book tickets on the bus for tomorrow.... hopefully they are still available.
The first rental car place we asked was 1000 euros.... some luxery car I guess. Plus apparently renting cars in Europe isn't like the US. You can't just return it anywhere... adding to the pain.
- how about hertz? can't you drop those off anywhere?********
- My parents used Hertz in France... dropped it off in another city.ismith
- really? they weren't opn when we arrived :( already booked the bus. Guess it will be cheaper though in the end.jfletcher
- Yeah... another city - but you're trying to get to another COUNTRY. Not gonna work..beav
- you can't do that here either- get charged huge fees for not bringing it back to the same place you got itdoesnotexist
- how about hertz? can't you drop those off anywhere?
- jfletcher0
ok, booked a bus... 35 euros a person. Leave at noon (about 9 hours). Guess we'll crash for a bit. A woman gave us her subway map to get to the bus station... so we're on our adventure :p
benfal... there will be plenty of drinking in Lisbon, I'm there for UXLX.
- ESKEMA0
^^thank god, I thought you were coming for the Pope!! :D
- elDoctor0
Go to Toledo.
- jfletcher0
Apparently our bus has a transfer in Merida, so I'll see a bit of that I guess... like 30-60 minutes :\
Overall I'll just be happy to get to Lisbon and rest. I'm already wrecked from travel this month (went to Mexico last week) and spending a night not sleeping in an airport isnt helping.
I'll be in Lisbon for almost a week, and just had 2 days in Paris (good god was that expensive). Overall it's been fun so far, and this is just a little detour :)
Expecting Lisbon to be awesome. Any places QBN thinks I should go?
- beav0
Lisbon is awesome. You'll have a great time!
- pepe0
are all flights cancelled coming in and out of madrid? Im suppose to fly there friday.
- yes, part of france, spain and portugal. but that might have change before friday.akrokdesign
- jfletcher0
Ok, got to Lisbon. Took a bus... nice to see the country side, but a bit of a rough journey. The hotel was nuts with people. Apparently EasyJet cancelled almost all flights from Lisbon today.
pepe - I talked to someone who was trying to get out of Lisbon for 3 days now. However other people have no issues. Seems to be a lot about the time of day an the airline itself EasyJet seems to suck a bit. For Madrid, it's where we got diverted to, so seems like they should be fine for now. I'm hoping by Sat things should be more cleared up. Good luck :)