Cheap Flights from UK to Sarajevo

Compared to many other Eastern Europe’s capitals, Sarajevo is highly isolated in term of the numbers of affordable flights in and out of Sarajevo. SkyEurope, Germanwings, EasyJets or Ryanair to name a few cover an impressive list of European cities. But Sarajevo and its ex-Yugoslav sister cities in Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro still remain in oblivion.

Less accessible from Europe, Sarajevo is probably less accessible from America. Normally, American travelers are recommended to fly to UK and then connect to their final destination in Eastern Europe. Without any budget airlines flying from UK to Sarajevo, these following travel companies are the best (many cases) alternatives.

• Cheapflights.co.uk
• Opdo.co.uk

A sample round trip ticket with Jat Airway and Austrian Airlines from the 10th and 17th of November  between Edinburgh or Glasgow and Saraejvo costs around 290 GBP including taxes and booking fees while route London-Sarajevo is 100 GBP cheaper.

As for accommodation, you can find last minute hotels with Cheaperthanhotelsfrom 10 GBP in London, 15 GBP in Edinburgh and 32 GBP in Glasgow.

 

From Sarajevo to Prague

According to our original plan, there were two routes

1.1 Sarajevo to Zagreb: departed at 6.50 a.m. and arrived at  1 p.m. Cost 54KM for oneway.

1.2 Zagreb to Prague: departed at 9 p.m. and arrived at 9 a.m. Don’t know

I did not know what got in my head; I opted for the route through Vienna. Have we gone to Zagreb, we only had to wait for 8 hours during day at the bus station and caught another bus from the same place to Prague.

But no!
2.1 Sarajevo to Vienna: departed at 8.00 a.m. and arrived at 10 p.m. Cost 86KM for oneway.  Paid 8 euros/16KM for luggage (4 bags).  It would have been less for Zagreb.
2.2 Stayed overnight in Vienna until 6 a.m.

2.3 Walked for < 10 mins to the metro stop at Sudbiroler Platz. Paid 1.5 euros for the metro ticket.

2.4. Rode 20 mins to Praterstern.

2.5. Walked 5 mins to the Wien Nord Praterstein bus stop of two early buses to Praha.

2.6 Chose the first bus (blue bus) departing at 8.15 from Tourbus because of the free luggage.  Paid 4.70 euros for ticket to Brno.  The second bus (yellow bus) from StudentAgency departing at 8.20  might charge extra for luggage and some cents more for the ticket. However, according to Jan, the bus was much bigger, ran faster, and served coffee and newspaper.

2.7 Arrived in Brno at around 10 a.m. Wanted to get on the bus to Praha at 11.  Could not since the bus driver refused to sell us tickets since the bus had only one seat left and was full in term of reservation.  Kicked myself on my behind for yielding to other people.   Got on the bus departing at 11.30 p.m. to Praha.  This Slovakian owned bus was extremely slow and hot.  Jan pointed to other yellow bus which passing our bus and ridiculed my choice.

2.8 Arrived in Prague at 2.20 p.m.  Walked > 5 mins to the metro to the train station. Paid 1 euros for the ticket. Rode 10 mins.

2.9 Arrived at the train station and took the 2.50 train to Celakovice.  The metro ticket included the train ride.

2.10 Arrived in Celakovi at 4 p.m. Walked 15 mins home.

Imagine luggage twice my weights and all of those changing and walking. Bye bye Vienna.  So you know my recommendation, I hope?

 

Train time table

Railwy Station
Put života 2
033 65 53 30

	From	To	cost(KM)	duration
Budapest	17. 45	20.32	92/180	12 hours
Ploce	06.40 16.20	06.25 18.18	18/29	4 hours
Zagreb	08.57	10.41	45/74	9 hours

 
Train time table (pdf)
Remember to double check the dates and time though.