A woman travelled to Lake Como for FOUR hours with her friends – and says she’'ll "never do a day trip again"."

Onyi Okorie, 24, surprised her friend Edesiri, 23, with a surprise birthday day trip to Milan costing a grand total of £285.

Edesiri believed she was going away with her sister when eight of her friends turned up at the airport instead.

Onyi planned the trip to a tee and the pals flew from Stanstead to Milan on £123 return tickets at 5.55am.

After landing at 8.50a

on July 29 2023 they got straight on a bus and a train to take them to Bellagio, Lake Como, where they arrived at midday for lunch.

They then took a ferry to Varenna, Lake Como, for ice cream and drinks before heading back at 4.30pm to Milan and stopped off at the spa for a massage.

Onyi and the friends travelled back to the airport for their 11.20pm flight – but didn’t arrive back in the UK until 3am due to delays.

Onyi, a lab admin, from Fulham, London, said: "She thought she was going away with her sister and then we all surprised her."

"We had good pizza, ice cream, drinks and chilled in the spa but it was absolutely exhausting."

"I’d never do a day trip again."

The girls decided to book something for their friend Edesiri’s birthday but could only go for a day as she had already planned something for the actual date.

Onyi looked into day trips and started to plan everything.

After arriving in Milan they hopped straight on public transport to get to Lake Como for midday.

Onyi said: "We had really good pizza."

"We went to a famous street."

They then headed to a different commune, Varenna, and had ice cream and drinks.
Onyi said: "It was hot but not nasty hot."

"We dipped our feet in the sea."

They headed back to Milan on a train by 4.30pm – after only having four hour and a half to explore Lake Como.

They went straight to the spa when they arrived back where they spent the rest of their time before heading back to the airport at 8.30pm for their 11.20pm flight.

Onyi said: "We chilled in the spa."

"I didn’t see Milan very much."

"I’d definitely go back."

A tired Onyi "didn’t move for the whole weekend" when she got back and doesn’t think she can hack a day trip again but said her friend "loved it"."

INTERINERY
5.55am – 8.50am - Flight for Standstead to Milan Bergamo airport
9.36am – 9.50am - Milan airport bus to Bergamo airport
10.07am – 11.24am – Railway to Varenna
12.05 – 12.20pm

- Ferry to Bellagio
14.28pm - Ferry back to Varenna
16.35pm – 17.40pm – train back to Milan
17.50 – 20.00pm – spa
20.30pm – train to Mikan Bergamo airport
23.20pm – flight home

Cost of return flight - £123 each (€143.76)
Cost of airport bus - €2.60
Train to Varenna - €5.80
Return ferry from Varenna to Bellagio - £9.20
Pizza - €9
Ice cream - 3 scoops for €6
Train back to Milan from Varenna - €7.80
Spa entry - €64 each, massage €49
Train back to the airport - €36

Total cost - £285.22 per person