Route comparison
London to Paris: train or flight?
The train wins on total door-to-door time for most travellers. Here is when flying still makes sense.
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Find your way there.
Plan your next trip by air, rail, road, or sea. We compare how people actually make each journey, then point you at the company that takes the booking.
Searches the 10 guides published on this site. We do not run live fare searches — for prices and availability you continue to a booking provider.
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Every way of getting there, in one place
Most trips are not one booking. They are a flight, then a train, then a ferry — each bought somewhere different. Start with the leg you are least sure about.
Flights
Compare airlines and agencies, then buy from whoever actually issues the ticket.
Hotels & Stays
Hotels, apartments and hostels — and which site tends to list which.
Trains & Buses
City-centre departures, no check-in queue. Often the fastest door to door.
Car Rentals
Worth it off the rail map. Expensive and awkward in big cities.
Ferries
Island hops and short sea crossings, including cars and foot passengers.
Cruises
Sailings, ports and the transfers that get you to the ship on time.
Tours & Attraction Tickets
Timed entry, skip-the-line tickets and shore excursions.
Route comparisons
Should you take the train, the plane, or drive?
Real routes, compared on total door-to-door time rather than the number printed on the ticket.
Trip planning
Planning a Greek island trip using flights and ferries
Build the itinerary around ferry days, not flight days — and leave the last island hop well clear of your flight home.
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Port transfer
Getting from Miami's airports to the cruise port
PortMiami is about nine miles from MIA — but the airport you fly into changes the answer completely.
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How it works
Three steps, and we only handle the first one
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Explore your options
Read how the journey actually works — the realistic timings, the transfers, the things that go wrong. That is the part we do.
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Choose a provider
Every button on this site names where it sends you, and opens that company’s own website in a new tab.
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Complete your booking there
The provider takes your payment and issues the ticket. Your contract is with them, not with us.
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Before you book
The checks that save money and stress, written for people who are booking their own travel rather than handing it to an agent.
Route comparison
Rome to Florence: train, flight, or rental car?
Fast trains cover the 232 km in about ninety minutes. A car only earns its keep if you are stopping along the way.
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Checklist
What to compare before booking a flight
The headline fare is the least useful number on the page. Nine things worth checking first.
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Decision guide
When renting a car makes sense on a European trip
A car is the wrong tool for capital-to-capital trips and the right one for everything off the rail map.
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Be clear about what we are
We do not sell travel
AirOrSeaTravel is a guide, not a travel agency. We hold no inventory, take no payments, issue no tickets and cannot change or cancel a reservation. Nothing on this site is a quote, a hold, or a confirmation.
When you follow a link from here, you leave this site and deal directly with an airline, a rail operator, a ferry company, a hotel or an online travel agency. Their terms, their prices, their cancellation rules, their customer service.
If you already have a booking and something has gone wrong with it, contact the company that took your money — they are the only ones who can fix it. We keep a short list of who to chase for the common cases.