Howdy, I live in Salt Lake City(SLC) and work for a regional airline with flight benifits on UAL. My daughter and I have flown UAL First Class to London serval times to meet my wife who was there on business. Only thing is SHE has never been in first class on a 3 class aircraft. She generally flew Business on DAL.
So, my goal is to get her on a UAL First seat. Looking for the best chances, Europe seems to be in low season. We have been to London several times and would probably go back again, but the high cost Lodging in London central and the fact that we may want to try something new has lead me to look at other places to go.
We would probably non-rev to ORD and then try to catch a UAL flight out of there. If we don't make first, we would probably do something different. Again the goal is to get UAL first and if we do great, if we don't that is fine.(Hope this doesn't upset some gate agent. Maybe I should explain this up front to them?)
So, where to go? Germany has always been an intrest of mine. THere are 2 Frankfurt(FRA) flights out of ORD and right now the loads looks just fine. Our calendars are permiting us to Leave Wed Jan 25th and Return Sun Jan 29th. We could go plus or minus a day or two on the return. Plus returning home if we just had to grab any flight home that would be fine.
I've looked at Munich(MUC) but there is only 1 flight in/out I believe.
Talking with my wife she has said that she would rather not drag around some large city and she would like to see the country. Plus looking at Lodging in FRA seems to be higher.
I've never done any type of train travel and we would like to keep the cost of the trip as low as we can but not quite at the HOSTEL level. :-) A nice clean room with a private bath would be fine.
So where should we go. It would be nice to see the Castles at Neuschwanstein but that may be a longer expensive train ride from FRA. But again, I don't know. Again, I know that Winter may not be the best time to visit.
Any suggestions on where we should go or stay after we get in to FRA?
Some of the SPA/WELLNESS places sound like fun, it would be nice to be pampered. Don't know if we are comfortable enough to walk around in mixed company in my birthday suit.
Thanks in advance for all of your help!
Also, any good hotel chains that offer Interline rates? I've heard ACCOR does, will they quote you a rate if you ask? Is it best to do hotel in advance or just hit the INFO booth at the train station.
Thanks again!
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