Fly out at dawn, home by midnight. Find the cheapest extreme day trips and weekend breaks from your local UK airport — no fixed dates, no fuss. Just go.
Popular routes
STN · LTN · LGW
GLA · EDI
MAN · LPL · LBA
MAN
BHX
Same-day returns
Fly out in the morning, explore a European city, and be home tonight. Search anywhere with live Kiwi prices for the next 7 months.
Jun 2026 – Jan 2027
STN · LTN · LGW
Stansted, Luton & Gatwick
GLA · EDI
Edinburgh & Glasgow
MAN · LPL · LBA
Manchester, Liverpool & Leeds Bradford
MAN
Manchester Airport
BHX
Birmingham Airport
Why us
Leave at 6am, land somewhere in Europe by 9am, and be back before midnight. An extreme day trip means no hotel, no big budget — just a flight, a city, and a day that punches well above its weight.
Every feature is shaped around weekend breaks and day trips — not two-week holidays. Search by vibe, pick a window, and we surface what actually fits.
What we offer
Pick the kind of escape you're after — extreme day trip, weekend city break, or quick coastal getaway.
Live prices from Kiwi.com, updated daily. See the cheapest routes from your airport across Europe.
City guides with things to do, food, and stay ideas — built for short trips, not two-week holidays.
Travel profiles
GettingAway helps travellers move from a rough idea to a ready-to-use route. Plan the stops, keep the details together, then publish the itinerary so other people can use it for their own escape.
Add flights, places, timings, food stops, and ideas into one practical plan.
Turn a list of saved places into a route that actually works on the ground.
Publish the finished itinerary as a clean travel page others can discover and follow.
Shared itinerary
A planned route becomes a public page with timings, mapped stops, notes, photos, and practical tips for the next traveller.
Where to go
Extreme day trips, explained
An extreme day trip means leaving the UK at sunrise and being back in your own bed by bedtime — a full day in another country with no hotel and no time off work. GettingAway scans hundreds of routes from regional airports to surface the cheapest extreme day trips and extreme weekend breaks, then lets you book around your life instead of fixed dates.
Catch the first flight out of your local UK airport, explore a European city all day, and fly home the same night. No hotel, no luggage, no annual leave — just one unforgettable day abroad. Popular extreme day trips from the UK include Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Geneva, often for less than the cost of a night out.
Browse extreme day tripsWant a little longer? An extreme weekend break stretches the same idea across a Friday-evening to Sunday window — one or two nights that let you travel further while keeping the working week untouched. We surface the cheapest extreme weekend trips for your departure point, then let you flex the dates.
See weekend breaksMost travel sites make you pick dates first. GettingAway works the other way around: tell us where you are flying from and we scan 300+ live routes to show what is genuinely worth doing — this weekend, next month, or whenever suits. No booking fees, no fixed dates, no fuss.
How GettingAway works
Mobile App
Elevate your travel experience with our iOS app. Discover, book, and plan your perfect getaway all in one place.
Good to know
An extreme day trip means catching the first flight out of a UK airport, spending a full day exploring a city abroad, and flying home the same night — with no hotel, no luggage and no time off work.
