Discover curated cheap European city breaks and real multi-city flight routes from your local UK airport. We have already done all the heavy lifting, so you don't have to.
Expect Extreme Day Trips to another country while you are already out in the sun, cities your local airport cannot reach directly, and a fare that stays cheap as chips from the first flight to the last.
✈ Every example below is a real route departing before the end of the year.
✈ Fly from all major UK airports
Choose yours. Every airport below has trips ready to explore.
Real trips from your airport
✈The trip keeps going
✈ Extreme Day Trips
What beats an Extreme Day Trip from the UK?
One you can tag on to your existing trip for a crazy low price, because you’re already in Europe.
Whilst you are away, a whole new set of day trips opens up.
✦ Destinations unlocked
The first flight opens up a much bigger map.
Just some examples of the destinations that become possible once your getaway reaches Europe.
Extreme Getaways will open for a limited launch period at our launch price. We will cap the first group so everyone gets a fast, useful service and the best chance of spotting the strongest deals.
300,000+adventurers in the wider Extreme Day Trips community
What are Extreme Getaways?
Your next European getaway, found and built for you.
Tell us which UK airports are within reach, how long you want to go for and roughly when you can travel. Extreme Getaways searches cheap flights in both directions, onward routes and different city orders to uncover trips that are almost impossible to spot one search at a time.
That could be a £30 city break, two European cities for less than one standard return, or a route that adds an Extreme Day Trip once you are already in Europe. Every option shows where you go, how many nights you get, how you get home and what the whole flight route costs.
See more of Europe for less. The searching, comparing and route building are already done.A first look at the Extreme Getaways Finder.
How it works
Start with the basics. We build the best trip around them.
You tell us where you can fly from, how long you have and when you could go. We turn those simple choices into complete European getaways.
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Pick your local airports
One airport or five. Include every UK airport you would genuinely travel from.
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Choose your trip length
One night, four nights or a full week. Tell us how much time you can steal away.
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Give us your dates
Half term, Christmas markets, next month or simply whenever the fare is right.
Behind the scenes, we compare cheap return flights, one-way fares, multi-city routes, departure airports, city order and every sensible way home. If a nearby airport unlocks a better trip, we make that clear too.
Open the shortlist. Pick the trip that makes you wonder how the fare is real.
Not every good trip is a return flight
One city. Two cities. Sometimes three.
A cheap city break when one place works best. A multi-city European trip when the low-cost flight routes line up.
✈ Multi-city
Two cities that look nothing alike.
We join separate low-cost flights into one multi-city route, with enough time in each place to make every stop worthwhile.
Bristol → Bergamo → Sardinia → Barcelona → Bristol From £61
↩ Open jaw
You don't have to come home the way you came.
An open-jaw flight home may land at a different nearby airport. If it creates a cheaper or more practical European route, we show you exactly how far apart the airports are.
Glasgow → Barcelona → Lisbon → Edinburgh .
Destinations unlocked
Your local airport opens up a much bigger map.
Extreme Getaways searches complete routes, not isolated flights. A well-priced first leg can open up cities that never appear in a normal return search, with every onward flight and the journey home already joined together.
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Start local
Tell us which UK airports you can genuinely reach.
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Use Europe as the connection
We test useful first stops, onward fares and different city orders.
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Unlock somewhere unexpected
You get a complete route, meaningful time away and the flight home priced in.
Explore from your airport
Destinations unlocked from Gatwick
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We only show a route when it is worth showing.
This airport is still being checked for a complete unlocked route with sensible timings, a strong fare and a way home that works.
These are a few examples from the current search, not the limit of where you could go. Fares and routes move, so the Finder keeps testing the combinations for you.
The obvious question
Why has nobody done this?
Flight search was built to answer "get me from Manchester to Rome". It was never built to answer the much more exciting question: "where can I go?"
Package travel sites sell you one place and a hotel. They do not search thousands of route, date, airport and city-order combinations to uncover the best complete trip for you.
That missing middleNobody sat there because it means doing an enormous search for every person who asks. That is the part we built.
⚡ Introducing the Extreme Day Trip Connector
Pisa for the day. Ibiza by bedtime.
It has the energy of an Extreme Day Trip, but instead of flying back home, you fly on to the next exciting destination.
Manchester · 7 AM
🛫7 AM
Fly Manchester → Pisa Morning flight, landing in Pisa at 10:30 AM local time.
Pisa · 10:30 AM - 7 PM
🚶10:30 AM
Into PisaWalk to the Leaning Tower in 30 minutes, or transfer to the city centre in 15.
📸11 AM
The Leaning TowerSee the Piazza dei Miracoli before lunch.
🍕1 - 6 PM
Lunch, then explore PisaTake the afternoon properly, then head back for the evening flight.
Ibiza · from 8:40 PM
🛫7 PM
Fly Pisa → Ibiza Touch down at 8:40 PM.
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Cocktails at a beach barYour second city starts the same evening.
🌙11 PM
Hotel in IbizaSleep, then wake up ready for a beach day.
Make smart use of the day. If one stop gives you enough time to see what you came for, fly in that morning, explore properly, then fly on that night.
No dead time between flights. A full day in one city, then the first night of the next part of your getaway.
Manchester → Pisa for the day → Ibiza for three nights → Manchester
Your departure board
The UK on one side. Europe on the other. Hundreds of ways between them.
This is the whole network currently on the board. Every glowing point is a city we can connect into a real getaway, and every line is a fare combination we have checked from a major UK airport.
24 UK airports60+ European cities300+ real routes
One map. All current airports, destinations and onward possibilities.
Save your time. Save your sanity.
You can search all weekend and still not know if you found the best one.
A cheap flight out is only the start. The real work is finding the right dates, joining the cities together and getting home without the final fare wiping out the bargain. You can pan for hours and never know whether you found the gold or just gave up near it.
A glimpse inside the finder
All the searching. One clear answer.
Search onceChoose your airports, dates, trip length and the kind of getaway you want.Compare the whole tripSee the cities, nights, dates, route order and total flight price together.Open every detailCheck each flight, stay and Extreme Day Trip without rebuilding the route yourself.
😵 What finding it yourself looks like
Test every trip lengthTry two nights, then three, four, five and six across every possible date.
Search every airport within reachRepeat the same searches from each place you could realistically fly from.
Build the outward and onward routeCompare different city orders, times and low-cost carriers one leg at a time.
Find a cheap way homeThe trip looks brilliant until the return flight wipes out the saving, so you change the route and compare it all again.
Hours of tabs, dates and half-built routes that are difficult to compare.
✈ What Extreme Getaways gives you
Every trip length, tested at onceOne night through to a full week, across every date that could work.
Every airport you'd travel from, comparedAll your realistic departure points checked in the same search.
Every city order, already builtComplete single-city and multi-city routes ready to compare.
The way home, already priced inNo brilliant outward route followed by an impossible return fare.
A shortlist of complete trips, and the certainty that nothing better was hiding.
Manchester → Barcelona → Milan → Manchester
The trip in picturesBarcelona → Milan
3 flights£79 per person in total
BarcelonaComing in over the coastBarcelonaSagrada FamíliaBarcelonaThe Olympic StadiumBarcelonaThe harbourBarcelonaBarcelonetaBarcelonaFeet in the MediterraneanBarcelonaTapas togetherMilan and beyondWater park dayMilan and beyondMonza CircuitMilanSan SiroMilanThe Duomo
How it all got started
The trip was brilliant. Finding it nearly broke me.
Last summer I wanted an affordable multi-city trip around Europe for me and my kids. It took several days of searches, spreadsheets and different flight combinations before Barcelona and Milan finally lined up at a price that worked.
BarcelonaSagrada Família, the Olympic Stadium, the harbour, La Rambla and the best tapas we could find.
Milan and beyondLake Como, the San Siro, Monza Formula One track, the Duomo and Milan city centre.
Two major European cities packed into one unforgettable trip. The three flights cost £79 per person in total. I loved it and wanted something similar this year. I just could not face going through all that searching again.
I wanted one simple answer: “I live near this airport. I want to go away for two to four nights. Where can I go that gives me the most time in the best places for the best value?” That is how Extreme Getaways was born.
RickFounder of Extreme Getaways
A new way to get away. From a team you already know.
We will open for a limited launch period at our launch price, then close the doors while we look after the first group and keep the service fast, focused and useful.
