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Lowest Flight Fares: Thrift transportation by sea is a far more complicated subject than is such transportation by air and careful consultation with your travel agent; is almost a necessity. Plane fares across the Atlantic are nearly uniform | —those of Icelandic Airlines are a thrift exception—but ship fares are i decidedly not uniform. Also, there are three classes, first, cabin and tourist, as against two, ordinarily, by air.The Iceland Tourist Bureau will be your great and good and even essential friend in all your touring plans. I might mention here that plane fares are definitely low in Iceland while car hire, even without a chauffeur, is high. Car rental is usually 250 kronur a day (about $15.30 at the official exchange), plus gasoline and oil. The figure of 250 kronur, as it happens, is exactly that of a one-way lowest flight fares between Reykjavik and Akureyri, a distance of 281 miles! The bus fare for that same trip, an extremely punishing one, comes to two-thirds of the plane fare.
Economy Touring and Lodging You can do a lot for a little in Finland if you are the hardy type, and in a clean, well-ordered land like this it is not too rigorous a job to be thrifty. Rail traffic, in third class, costs not much over a cent a mile for long distances, and inland steamer tariffs are extremely moderate. Furthermore, the Finnish State Railways offer a surprising choice of 42 circular tours— 25 of them mapped out in an official booklet—at 20 per cent below standard fares, available from May 1 to Sept. 30; and in the off-season they offer general tariff reductions of 25 to 50 per cent on return fares. |
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