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Despite Tallinn's popularity as a party town, direct flights to Tallinn from the UK or Ireland are only available from London and Dublin (summer only). Easyjet offer cheap flights to Tallinn from London Stansted, whereas Estonian Air offers Tallinn flights from Gatwick. Ryanair have previously operated cheap flights to Tallinn from Stansted, whereas Estonian Air used to have a direct route to Tallinn from Manchester.
Connecting flights
Tallinn is not particularly well connected with other European airports, but you should be able to find flights via Frankfurt, Copenhagen, or perhaps other Baltic cities such as Stockholm or Helsinki.
Flights to Tallinn February 2009 price comparison
We looked at prices for flights to Tallinn from various UK airports using our partner search engines Expedia, Ebookers and Netflights. All prices are rounded to the nearest pound, and correct at the time of writing (February 20).
The cheapest flights to Tallinn for a one-week trip starting April 16 were £169, with Lufthansa via Frankfurt. However, direct flights with Estonian Air were not much more expensive at £175. Easyjet do not operate flights on the sample dates (they only operate four flights each week between Luton and Tallinn). The cheapest flights Easyjet had were for the day before – April 15 to 22 for £97, excluding luggage, and any other extras.
When looking at flights from Birmingham to Tallinn, we found a huge gap between the prices on Expedia and Ebookers. The cheapest flights from Birmingham to Tallinn with Ebookers were £262 with KLM via Amsterdam, whereas the best deal on Expedia was £169 with Lufthansa via Frankfurt. The same flights were £171 on Netflights.
For flights from Manchester to Tallinn, the best deal we found was £175 with Lufthansa via Frankfurt on Netflights. Again, there was a substantial difference between different booking engines -- the best deal on Expedia was £203, with Czech Airlines via Prague, whereas all Ebookers could offer was £245 with Finnair via Helsinki.
When we looked up flights from Edinburgh to Tallinn, the same massive discrepancy between different flight booking engines occurred, but this time Expedia were by far and away the cheapest -- with a difference of £100 between them and their nearest rival. Expedia’s best price for Tallinn flights from Edinburgh was £169 with Lufthansa via Frankfurt, whereas the best Ebookers could offer was £277 with KLM via Amsterdam. Netflights also offered the Amsterdam option for £277.
Flights from Dublin to Tallinn were the most expensive that we sampled, but it is notable that Netflights do not offer flights from Dublin on their route menu. Both Ebookers and Expedia offered flights with KLM via Amsterdam for £295. A wider choice of flights to Tallinn from Dublin is available in the summer, when Estonian Air offer direct flights between the two cities.
SAS do not appear on any of the listings despite offering connecting flights to Tallinn from Stockholm and Copenhagen. We can only suspect that this is because they do not want to compete with Estonian Air, who are part of the SAS group.
Alternative options
Although, you should have no problem finding connecting flights to Tallinn from most UK departure airports, thanks to flights with KLM via Amsterdam, these can clearly be a little bit pricey for the budget traveller.
Looking at the map, the most obvious option might be to take a ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn. The ferry journey between the two capitals takes two hours and there are six sailings a day. The price for ferries to Tallinn starts at €23 (approximately £20), rising up to €38 (£34) for peak weekend sailings. This is certainly an attractive way to enjoy a short break in both cities, but it is still only really viable if you live near airports in London or Manchester, as there are no other flights to Helsinki from UK regional airports.
Taking flights to St Petersburg might sound like a more enticing option, but the journey from St Petersburg to Tallinn is much more cumbersome than the journey between Tallinn and Helsinki or the Latvian capital Riga. When it comes to flights, it is the latter, which is by far and away the best connected -- Ryanair offer cheap flights to Riga from Liverpool, Glasgow Prestwick, East Midlands, Bristol, London Stansted and Dublin.
Unfortunately, there is no regular rail service linking Tallinn to St Petersburg or Riga, so you will have to go by Eurolines bus. Allow at least 4 1/2 hours to travel between Riga and Tallinn by bus -- there are typically seven services each day, costing €12 (approximately £11) each way. By contrast, there are eight or nine buses each day between Tallinn and St Petersburg, with a journey time of at least five hours and 20 minutes.
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