Traveling from Man. Airport to Nottingham

Not sure if there is a direct route, but you can definitely go by bus from Manchester to Derby, and then there are loads of options from Derby to Nottingham. London's a hell of a lot further from Nottingham than Manchester!!!

Seriously? I wonder why the sites told me they are both about 2 hours from both locations. Maybe I was looking at it all wrong.

I guess bus would help with all the luggage. Still, it would take quite a long time right?

Do you know where I can go to check it out?

The buses you need are probably on here:

http://www.trentbuses.co.uk/

I'll look it up for you tomorrow in my bus and train timetable, and see if I can find you the exact details. There's another much faster bus which I don't think is operated by Trent - I'll check it out for you.

Cut out London, you'll just be doing a huge U-turn really. If you're coming from abroad and flying to Manchester Airport all you have to do is catch a train from said airport to Manchester Piccadilly, and then from there catch a train direct to Nottingham via Sheffield.

As for tickets, try and ask for a saver or cheap one-way (if you want one-way, cuz I'm guessing you do) ticket when you buy. And if you buy tickets from Manchester Airport just ask to go to Nottingham rather than saying "Manchester Piccadilly" and then asking again for a ticket to Nottingham once you get there.

(If there are computerised FastTicket machines at Manchester Airport's train station, which I'm not sure if there are, ordering tickets is a doddle anyway).

1) Don't bother with the London route; completely pointless, you'll be wasting your time. Although I don't know where you got the 45 minute travel time change in London; Euston is 1 tube stop from Kings Cross St Pancras for St Pancras International Station; that said, it's utterly ridiculous and excessively a timeconsuming journey.

2) Your options are thus two fold:
a)from Manchester Airport Station: take any service and change at Manchester Piccadilly, waiting for the Central Trains City Link service to Nottingham (Destination possibly Nottingham, or likely Norwich). This service runs Manchester Piccadilly, Stockport, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Alfreton, (Langley Mill) and Nottingham.

It only runs every hour, and as such could mean you're waiting around at Manchester Picc for a while for the connection.

or b) From Manchester Airport Station, take the Transpennine Express service (destination Sheffield/Cleethorpes somewhere like that); this will run Manchester Piccadilly, Stockport, Sheffield. CHANGE AT SHEFFIELD.
From Sheffield you'll then have more routes to Nottingham available to you, thus less waiting time.
Either, Midland Mainline (destination London St Pancras via Nottingham), or Central Trains Citylink (destination Nottingham or Norwich).

Same price no matter which, as it's Airport to Nottingham using Any Permitted route. Trust me when I tell you, Airport to Manchester, Manchester to London Terminals and London Terminals to Nottingham IS NOT a permitted route!!!

You are going to have to change at least once, at most twice; in either case you're journey shouldn't take more than 2 hours 15 minutes.

I don't think he was ever considering airport to Manchester, Manchetser to London Terminals and London Terminals - I think it was fly into a London airport and get a train from London to Nottingham, skipping Manchester completely.

Whichever route you take you'll need to get a train/tube/metro from the airport (be it Manchester or London) to main terminals, then a train from there (be it Manchester or London) to Nottingham - So expect the same about of train switching and same kind of dawdling about, although the wait times might vary.

Personally, I think you should just try and book both routes and see which works out cheapest overall (probably Manchester route) and which has less waiting time (probably Manchester again) and then decide which you want.