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One more, Reykjavik, Amsterdam, Bruges, then ?

Next summer my husband and I are going to take advantage of Icelandair's stopover program and go to Reykjavik for a few days, then fly to Amsterdam. After a few days there, we were thinking of taking a train to Bruges for a few days, then my thought was to fly somewhere for a few days from Schipol that is relatively close. We like to add places we've never been if possible - we have been to London, Paris, Rome, Venice, Barcelona. What's a great city to go to that is not too long a flight away, but gives a different flavour than the ones I mentioned. We like history, love to really walk a city, like art, museums etc.

Thanks for any input!

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Why return to Amsterdam? Fly out of Brussels if you are in Bruges. Once in the air who cares if the flight is one or two hours. You have all of Germany and then Prague, or Budapest, Or how abut Athens or Istanbul? Of course, I think southern Spain - Cordoba, Sevilla, Granada - is very different than most of Europe because of the Muslin influence. Then there is Portugal Lot of choices.

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I'm just assuming cheaper flight if I fly in and out of same destination. They count the return flight at from Amsterdam and the Reykjavik part was just a stop over.

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Why???? We almost always find open jaw tickets the same price and many times cheaper than RT tickets. And multi leg flights can also be very reasonable when booked together.

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Icelandair is one of the easiest airlines to go open jaws with. They basically take the price of a round trip ticket and cut it in half for each leg of your trip. Having said that, they do not fly in and out of every European city and it can be expensive to take a connecting flight to get back to a city where they depart from. You might want to look first at the cities they do fly to and pick one of those to visit. It will save you time and money. (Munich, Oslo, Copenhagen and more My husband and I had a 3 day layover in Copenhagen in 2003 and had a great time.). You then go to their web site and put in that you want to look at a multi city trip. This allows you to put in different arrival and departure cities. I think you will find they are very fair in their pricing, as I said above. I have used them twice for one way tickets to Europe (I had enough air miles to come home for free on another airline). Both times, they charged me 1/2 of a round trip ticket and nothing more.

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From Bruges travel by train to Aachen, Cologne & then on to Hamburg.
Icelandair fly in/out of Hamburg.

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Does Icelandair share code with anyone?

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Copenhagen, Olso, and Stockholm have Icelandair service and are certainly different from the cities you've visited before. Or try Berlin, then train to Hamburg or Frankfurt to fly home.

Their codeshare partners are Finnair and SAS. They list a lot of others, including United, Delta, US Air, Lufthansa, British, etc. as "interline partners," whatever that means.

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Great advice! Thanks everyone, I'll look in to it, I did notice they flew to quite a few larger cities so I'll see what appeals to us.

Thanks again.