Cheaper alternative to visiting Poland with children?

Frenchie	Jan 11, 07, 16:21 / #
My husband is a Polish ex-pat, now a US citizen. We have 3 small children (7 yr old twins and a 2-yr old). He still has family living in Poland, in Gdansk. We've been discussing visiting for a bit over the summer but have run into a major stumbling block in that tickets are very, very expensive - at least $6000 round trip for the five of us. Is there a cheaper alternative than flying into Warsaw? Both he and I are quite comfortable in Europe, so we would have no problem flying into Paris, Frankfurt, etc. and then taking the train. But I don't know if that would be expensive and/or inconvenient enough that it would just be better to fly straight to Warsaw. When we first got married, LOT had a special for families - basically parents pay, children go free. Too bad they don't have anything similar...

Grzegorz_Threads: 81 Posts: 6,211 Joined: Nov 16, 06	Jan 11, 07, 16:47 / #
Maybe flying to UK first? There are many "low cost" flights to Poland.

helloThreads: 37 Posts: 1,104 Joined: Dec 5, 06	Jan 11, 07, 16:50 / #
Flying to the UK won't make a lot of difference (maybe saving of 1K total) - but with children it is much more difficult to plan. I once had a good deal from SAS airlines - Chicago through Kopenhagen and Warsaw.