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Luxembourg Travel: Getting There and Getting Around

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If you’ve just visited Paris, London, or Rome, Luxembourg will be a very relaxing and European experience. For the most part, the beautiful countryside is interrupted by small villages and impressive medieval castles rather than by tour buses. Luxembourg is so small that you probably won’t pass through it unless you plan an excursion from a neighboring country.

Luxembourg City has an international airport (LUX), but there are no direct flights to the United States; you’ll have to fly through a European hub such as Amsterdam. Round trip tickets from major cities in the northeast U.S. (e.g. Boston, New York, and Detroit) generally cost about one thousand dollars while flying from U.S. metropolises such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and Atlanta takes the price to approximately twelve hundred dollars. In many cases, Northwest’s partner airline, KLM, offers the cheapest flights.

If you’re coming to Luxembourg from elsewhere in Europe, you will likely arrive on the train. Luxembourg accepts the Eurail pass as well as the Benelux Tourrail Pass, and trains depart from Luxembourg City for Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Frankfurt every 1-2 hours. The Luxembourg City train station is on the south side of town, and you can walk downtown or take one of the many buses or taxis.

Within Luxembourg, you can buy transportation passes for one to three days that will get you on any train or a bus, and most of the country’s larger cities have both bus and train stations. In addition, however, make sure and take advantage of Luxembourg’s many biking and hiking trails. Luxembourg is beautiful, and it is one of the only European countries that you can experience in its entirety through a bicycle trip. Most of the major cities have bicycle rental shops.

As much as possible, make your plans ahead of time; you only have one to three days, so you don’t want to spend your time finding a place to stay or deciding what to do. Either make a hotel reservation or have a list of several hotels that you plan to visit as soon as you arrive. Then, talk with your group and determine what your interests and priorities are so that you can make your trip as rewarding as possible.

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