Bargains of the week: Bucharest | New Orleans | Frankfurt

Tuesday 27 October 2009

Looking for bargains? Skyscanner's travel team uses Skyscanner's popular "cheap flights from the UK to Everywhere" search feature to handpick three cheap destinations.

With Halloween just round the corner, we look at a few spooky bargains this week.

Bucharest, Romania (return from £34)

The region of Transylvania in Romania was home to Vlad the Impaler, a real life torturer that the legend of Dracula is said to be based upon.  But it’s not all spooky stuff – Transylvania’s beautiful, remote mountainous terrain is also popular with skiers, hikers and bikers.

Find cheap flights to Bucharest from London Luton, Gatwick and Heathrow.

New Orleans (return from £286)

Go and visit the state of Louisiana, setting for the massively popular, bloodsucking blockbuster series, True Blood, currently showing on Channel Four. Why not buy a bottle of TruBlood to get a taster of Vampire social life?

Find cheap flights to New Orleans from London airports, Manchester and Birmingham.

Frankfurt (return from £6 return)

Take a tour of Castel Frankenstein near Frankfurt/Main and feel a strange presence as legions of zombies follow you through the darkness and hair-raising shows can be seen in the dungeons and dark chambers of the castle.

Find cheap flights to Frankfurt from 7 UK airports including Stansted, Edinburgh, Manchester and London airports.