flying from Atlanta to Amsterdam, London and Paris

Round trip is usually cheaper. However, there is a third option. Multi-City.

When you go to book flights you will see that there are three options: One way, round trip and multi-city. Choose the multi city option. This will save you money over one way tickets.

It's called "open jaw" ticketing.

I agree with Frank

Do look for the "Multi-city" option on the airlines site.

As for your question of which airport is easier, the consensus of the forum is seems to be (easier to more challenging) Amsterdam, London, Paris in that order.

Above answers are correct, but may be missing a more important point.

You are planning to fly to Europe from North America, and your plan is to visit London, Paris and Amsterdam (as an aside, if you do this, I'd suggest you do them in that order).

Here's the issue:

I am planning a 10 day trip

You will get much more valuable advice if you provide specific travel dates/times - because...

1. 10 days is a very short trip to Europe (some might say too short, but if that's all you have, it is what it is).
2. What many people describe "a 10 day trip" actually leaves them with just 8 (maybe just 7) full, usable days on the ground in Europe (a little willful self-deception that can actually ruin your trip). 7 or 8 days is not enough to "do" the three cities you list (neither is 10 days, but 7 or 8 is completely crazy).

If you post specific dates (and times) - even if they are just proposed dates/times before you have booked tickets, people here can give you a very valuable reality check that I think would help you a lot. Do NOT book your tickets until you have done this.

Also, when (what month) are you planning this?

hey radhakedia
agreeing with frank also.
doing your research before booking is valuable. 10 days are not that many days to see what you want but it's your vacation. don't count arrival day (long overseas flight and jetlag and fuzzy brain), passport/immigration check may be fast or slow, get to hotel. look at your arrival and departure times (too early to check in and is there luggage storage, no pushing luggage around city, you can only move so fast with your kids) departure days don't count, (getting up, packing, breakfast, getting to airport/train station, next location).
atlanta to london, eurostar to paris, paris to amsterdam by thalys train, amsterdam to atlanta. (multi-city) we did something like this 2 years ago. trains are usually city center to city center, airports further out and take time.
what are your dates and have you booked any hotels yet and what is cancellation rules? give this forum more info and they will give you good bad and ugly. it's to help you out and have an enjoyable trip. booking trains early will give you cheaper fares. get all your facts together and come back. it's a lot of work and research but it will pay off in the long run.
aloha

Sorry but 8 days is only enough time for 2 cities. I would fly into London and out of Paris.

I agree that multicity is your best bet. You could fly into London, take the Eurostar to Paris, then take the high speed train to Amsterdam and fly home from there. We've flown into both London and Amsterdam and flown out of CDG Paris, all out of ATL.

The 10 days you mention, are they in Europe is that total time from Atlanta and back? Frankly, either way, I'd just do London and Paris, especially if you've never been to them before. We took the afternoon Eurostar to Paris, but by the time you check out, get to the train station and board the train, you have little or no time that day for sightseeing. The high speed train from Paris to Amsterdam is 3 1/2 hours travel time. Tack on at least two hours in front and another hour or two in back to get to your hotel and settled in, you've burned another day just traveling.

Note that it's often slightly cheaper to fly into London and out of a different airport because most UK airports have higher airport departure duty/airport departure tax for long haul flights than other European airports.

If you're looking to fill the gap of an open jaw/multi-city option, BA also tends to have cheap one way flights to and from London when booked directly on their web site on routes where they have heavy competition with low cost carriers.

hello- we are doing a short trip arriving London on march 29th morning and flying out of Amsterdam april 7th. I read the reviews and we are now thinking of taking out paris and just doing London and Amsterdam for now? please advice on euro rail from London to Amsterdam vs flying and where to stay? we are 4 of us - 2 adults and 2 girls 10 and 12. Thank you.

also- a friend also said we can stop in Brussels for one to two days from London to Amsterdam?

It's quite late to be booking transportation from London to Amsterdam for early April. I'm afraid the reasonably priced airline and train tickets were sold some time ago. You can check for flights on skyscanner.com and Eurostar trains on the Eurostar website. Be careful about departure and arrival airports (some budget airlines use airports that are time-consuming and costly to reach) and baggage allowances.

I haven't taken the Eurostar so don't know how easy or costly it would be to stop off in Brussels, but you should not do that. You have only eight full, non-jetlagged days on this trip. Brussels is by consensus one of the very dullest capital cities in Europe. Don't spend even one of your precious days there when London and Amsterdam are also possibilities. There are much more interesting places in Belgium, but they'd take longer to reach, and you don't have extra time for a third location.

Eurostar has 2 daily non stop, London-to Amsterdam trains.

With the time you have I would limit myself to 2 locations.

I always check for low fares on kayak.com first, then go to the airline (my preference is Delta since I live in Georgia).

I would limit a trip this short to London and maybe some nearby day trips. I definitely wouldn't waste time in Brussels when your time is so limited-if I had never been there, I wouldn't have missed anything important.