European City Breaks and Multi-City Trips

Cheap European city breaks and real multi-city flight routes from your local UK airport. Tell us where you can fly from and when you are free, and Europe Unlocked™ searches the combinations so you do not have to.

Go for one city, or come home with stories from three. Squeeze in a day somewhere else while you are out there. Every flight is priced, from the first to the last, so you see the total flight cost before you choose.

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Every example below is a real route departing before the end of the year.

✈ Fly from all major UK airports

Select your local airport to see the real trips we have found for you.

Showing real trips from AberdeenThe trips, same-day side routes and reachable destinations below all update with your airport.

Real trips from your airport

✈ Extreme Day Trips

What's better than an Extreme Day Trip from the UK?

An Extreme Day Trip (fly out in the morning, home the same night) that starts from within Europe instead. You are already close, so you get far more time there for a much smaller fare.

Whilst you are away, a whole new set of day trips opens up.

✦ Free to try

Seen one you fancy? There are thousands more.

Every city, every date and every trip length from your airport, side by side and cheapest first, with the flights home included. Have a play: it takes seconds, and you do not need an account.

What is Europe Unlocked?

Your next European trip, 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. Europe Unlocked™ searches cheap flights in both directions, onward routes and different city orders to find 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 a same-day side 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.

Europe Unlocked Finder multi-city search from Manchester, with complete routes and total flight prices — A first look at the Europe Unlocked Finder.

✦ Five ways to find your trip

However you like to travel, there is a search for it.

One night or a whole week. One city or four. A spur-of-the-moment midweek escape or a Christmas market weekend planned weeks ahead. Pick how you want to go and the Finder does the rest.

Every city break from your airport, side by side.

Pick your dates and watch every city you can fly to and back from line up, cheapest first, with every trip length and the total flight price already worked out.

The one that makes you say "let's go" jumps straight out, and you know it really is the best deal going, not just the best one you had time to find.

Cheapest first
Every date priced
Day trips from your base

Try Single City

And that is just one city. Wait until you see Multi-City.

A Manchester to Barcelona city break in the Finder, with the route map, both flights and the stay

882 trips. 71 cities. One search. That is how many city breaks from Manchester the Finder compares in just two weeks of dates, away for 2, 3 or 4 nights and leaving any Monday to Thursday.

✦ Prefer to browse?

See every trip on one map.

Flip any search to the map and every trip from your airport is drawn across Europe, with the cheapest fare on every pin. Tap a pin to trace the route and see it all.

The Finder's map view: trips from Stansted drawn across Europe, with the cheapest fare on each city

⚡ Introducing the Same-Day Connector

Pisa for the day. Ibiza by bedtime.

All the thrill of an Extreme Day Trip, but instead of flying back home, you fly on to your next destination.

7 AM

Fly Manchester → Pisa Morning flight, landing in Pisa at 10:30 AM local time.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa — Pisa · 10:30 AM - 7 PM

10:30 AM

Into PisaPisaMover to Pisa Centrale, then an easy flat walk to the Tower: about 30 minutes in all. Walking the whole way through the old town is a relaxed 40.

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.

The coast of Ibiza — Ibiza · from 8:40 PM

7 PM

Fly Pisa → Ibiza Touch down at 8:40 PM.

9 PM

Cocktails at a beach barYour second city starts the same evening.

11 PM

Hotel in IbizaSleep, then wake up ready for a beach day.

Land in Pisa in the morning. See the Tower, take your time over lunch, then fly on to Ibiza that evening. If one day is enough to see what you came for, why spend a night there?

No dead time between flights. A full day in one city, then the first night of the next part of your trip.

Manchester → Pisa for the day → Ibiza for three nights → Manchester

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

Three 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 → Ibiza → Barcelona → Turin → Bristol From £56

↩ Open jaw

You don't have to come home the way you came.

Your flight home might land at a different nearby UK airport. When that makes the trip cheaper or easier, we show you both airports and exactly how far apart they are.

Glasgow → Barcelona → Lisbon → Edinburgh .

A glimpse inside the finder

All the searching. One clear answer.

A Manchester, Milan Bergamo and Barcelona trip shown with its route, map, calendar and flights — **Compare the whole trip**See the cities, nights, dates, route order and total flight price together.

Each flight and stay on a Manchester, Milan Bergamo and Barcelona trip, with day trips to Venice, Ibiza and Palma from Barcelona — **Open every detail**Check each flight, stop and same-day side trip without rebuilding the route yourself.

Europe Unlocked Finder single city search from Manchester to Spain or Italy, with results — **Or keep it to one city**Pick single city for the best return to one place, with same-day side trips from there still shown.

Your departure board

The UK on one side. Europe on the other. Millions of ways between them.

A taste of the trips on the board right now. Every glowing point is a city we can build into a real trip, and every line is a fare combination we have checked from a UK airport.

23 UK airports 230 cities in 44 countries 40 million+ trips

Every airport we fly from, and a taste of where the trips go.

Manchester → Barcelona → Milan → Manchester

The trip in pictures Barcelona → Milan

3 flights£79 per person in total

Barcelona coastline seen from the flight — BarcelonaComing in over the coast

The Sagrada Família in Barcelona — BarcelonaSagrada Família

Swimming pools and the city view at Barcelona's Olympic Stadium — BarcelonaThe Olympic Stadium

Barcelona harbour viewed from above — BarcelonaThe harbour

Barceloneta beach and the Mediterranean — BarcelonaBarceloneta

Rick's daughter paddling in the Mediterranean at Barceloneta — BarcelonaFeet in the Mediterranean

Rick and his children having tapas in Barcelona — BarcelonaTapas together

Water slides at a water park near Milan — Milan and beyondWater park day

The entrance to the Monza Formula One circuit — Milan and beyondMonza Circuit

The San Siro stadium in Milan — MilanSan Siro

The Duomo di Milano and its piazza — MilanThe 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?” The searching needed doing once, properly. That is what became Europe Unlocked.

RickFounder of Europe Unlocked

The big question

How Is This Different From Skyscanner Or Google Flights?

They are powerful tools. If you know exactly where you want to go and when, nothing beats them.

But like most people, you are probably thinking "I want to go away for a few nights in October, from any of my three local airports." And it is all the combinations you have to trawl through after that:

Start with Manchester. Three nights, leaving on a Thursday.

Now try the Friday. Now four nights instead of three.

Swap to Liverpool. Then Leeds Bradford.

Try the week after. Then the one after that.

Open a new tab for the next city, and lose track of the first.

Wince and repeat.

Each search is a fresh start, and each result is gone the moment you run the next one. We got tired of the wincing and repeating bit, so we're doing something about it.

Why pay when the flight sites are free?

Because your time off is worth more than another evening of searching.

Half term is coming. You have two to four nights free, and you would go anywhere in Europe for the right trip. So you open a free flight site.

You search everywhere. A tempting price pops up.
You click through for the details. The flight out is at 6am, or the way home lands after midnight, or that price was one way only. Back to the list.
You try another day. Then another trip length. Eventually you find something decent. But was it the best that week, or just where you stopped looking?

Get your evenings back We have already searched every day you could leave, every trip length and every city, with the times and the full return price checked. Less searching. More choosing.

Find the trips you would miss Two, three or four cities in one trip, lined up and priced for you. Rick spent several days piecing one together by hand. Leave the spreadsheets to us.

Pick the best, not the first Every trip that fits, side by side, cheapest first. So you book the one that makes the most of your time off. You just choose.

Where we come in

They Hand You A Pan. We Hand You The Gold.

Then you just pick the piece you like.

We ran the whole search: every airport you would travel from, every trip length from one night to a week, every day you could leave, every city order and every sensible way home. What comes back is a handful of complete trips, priced, dated and ready to book direct. The best on the board, not the best you had the patience to find.

Over 40 million trips, already found. No more panning for gold. Narrow it however you like, and pick the one you want.

★ From our beta testers

The first people through the door love it.

A small group of Extreme Day Trips regulars have been using Europe Unlocked before anyone else. Here is what they told Trustpilot.

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Genuinely brilliant travel website!

This is my new favourite travel website. It finds an abundance of flight options within seconds. It makes finding great travel options within Europe ridiculously easy. It has various filters to find you the perfect trip that suits your travel dates, your budget, preferred destinations, and length of trip and many more.

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★★★★★

So many trip options found in seconds!

A fantastic site. It's simple, it's quick to load and it saves so much time compared to Skyscanner/Kayak. It also shows me far more destinations than I can find elsewhere. Genuinely a brilliant site which I use daily.