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£635 - £885
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London HeathrowDes Moines
LHR - DSM
LHRDSM
London Heathrow
Sat 14/9
1 stop15h 35m
Des Moines
Sat 21/9
1 stop10h 54m
London HeathrowOmaha Eppley Airfield
LHR - OMA
LHROMA
London Heathrow
Fri 13/9
2 stops23h 19m
Omaha Eppley Airfield
Fri 27/9
2 stops26h 00m
London HeathrowOmaha Eppley Airfield
LHR - OMA
LHROMA
London Heathrow
Wed 25/9
2 stops15h 29m
Omaha Eppley Airfield
Tue 1/10
1 stop13h 35m
London HeathrowWaterloo
LHR - ALO
LHRALO
London Heathrow
Thu 31/10
2 stops46h 02m
Waterloo
Mon 4/11
1 stop15h 00m
London HeathrowDes Moines
LHR - DSM
LHRDSM
London Heathrow
Sat 14/9
2 stops17h 35m
Des Moines
Sat 21/9
2 stops18h 30m
London HeathrowOmaha Eppley Airfield
LHR - OMA
LHROMA
London Heathrow
Mon 1/7
1 stop14h 08m
Omaha Eppley Airfield
Mon 15/7
1 stop18h 15m
London CityOmaha Eppley Airfield
LCY - OMA
LCYOMA
London City
Wed 25/9
2 stops18h 45m
Omaha Eppley Airfield
Tue 1/10
2 stops16h 00m
London HeathrowCedar Rapids
LHR - CID
LHRCID
London Heathrow
Tue 9/7
2 stops22h 42m
Cedar Rapids
Tue 30/7
1 stop19h 50m
London HeathrowCedar Rapids
LHR - CID
LHRCID
London Heathrow
Tue 9/7
1 stop13h 56m
Cedar Rapids
Tue 30/7
1 stop18h 25m
DSM Temperature | -5 - 25 °C |
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If weather is an important factor for your trip to Iowa, use this chart to help with planning. For those seeking warmer temperatures, July is the ideal time of year to visit, when temperatures reach an average of 25.0 C. Travellers hoping to avoid the cold should look outside of January, when temperatures are typically at their lowest (around -5.0 C).
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When I was going to board, one of the staff members told me that I could not board with my passport bag because it was tree items and I would need to check a bag. This was so stupid ! The bag was small. So I had to put my things in my pockets, put the funny bag inside the other bag. Then go throw it. Then in the plane put everything back again in my funny bag.
Comfort
Food
Crew
Entertainment
Overall
Boarding
Reviews
When I was going to board, one of the staff members told me that I could not board with my passport bag because it was tree items and I would need to check a bag. This was so stupid ! The bag was small. So I had to put my things in my pockets, put the funny bag inside the other bag. Then go throw it. Then in the plane put everything back again in my funny bag.
Comfort
Food
Crew
Entertainment
Overall
Boarding
Reviews
When I was going to board, one of the staff members told me that I could not board with my passport bag because it was tree items and I would need to check a bag. This was so stupid ! The bag was small. So I had to put my things in my pockets, put the funny bag inside the other bag. Then go throw it. Then in the plane put everything back again in my funny bag.
Comfort
Food
Crew
Entertainment
Overall
Boarding
Reviews
When I was going to board, one of the staff members told me that I could not board with my passport bag because it was tree items and I would need to check a bag. This was so stupid ! The bag was small. So I had to put my things in my pockets, put the funny bag inside the other bag. Then go throw it. Then in the plane put everything back again in my funny bag.
Comfort
Food
Crew
Entertainment
Overall
Boarding
Reviews
When I was going to board, one of the staff members told me that I could not board with my passport bag because it was tree items and I would need to check a bag. This was so stupid ! The bag was small. So I had to put my things in my pockets, put the funny bag inside the other bag. Then go throw it. Then in the plane put everything back again in my funny bag.
Comfort
Food
Crew
Entertainment
Overall
Boarding
Reviews
When I was going to board, one of the staff members told me that I could not board with my passport bag because it was tree items and I would need to check a bag. This was so stupid ! The bag was small. So I had to put my things in my pockets, put the funny bag inside the other bag. Then go throw it. Then in the plane put everything back again in my funny bag.
Agriculture dominates the landscape here, with a neatly ordered patchwork of fields and farms occupying the softly rolling plains. It’s pleasant, with a gentle pace of life and hospitable, small-town feel, but its tourist appeal – and some would say excitement value – is limited; as Bill Bryson, born in its capital, memorably declared, “I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.”
The two major tourist draws are the small white house that, along with its stony faced residents, was immortalised in Grant Wood’s American Gothic, and the bridges of Madison County, where the eponymous book and film were set.
Cinema buffs can also make a detour to see Dyerville’s baseball diamond, built for the filming of another tear jerker, 1989’s Field of Dreams.
In the westernmost part of the state, the dramatic ridges of the Loess Hills rise some 61 metres above the plains. Formed in the Ice Age by drifts of windblown sediment, they’re now home to a number of wildlife and nature reserves and State Parks, popular with hikers, hunters and campers.
One of the Great Plains states, Iowa’s climate has wild weather with thunderstorms, droughts, blizzards, and hailstorms, and the western part of the state is in tornado alley.Iowa generally has hot and humid summers with temperatures reaching or exceeding 37 degrees (Celsius). Winters are cold and harsh, January temperatures are generally in the minus figures and low single digits, and travel can be difficult. Spring and autumn are mild, but the springs are wet. Typically, the state has 266 sunny or partly sunny days and an average of 76cm (30 inches) of winter snowfall.
Driving is the best way to get around Iowa and its cities, and the best way to see the state. Scenic drives take you to the Madison Country bridges, along the Mississippi valley, and through the Loess Hills. Iowa has 13 scenic drives and 23 visitor centres.
The terrain of plains and low, rolling hills makes bicycling easy, and the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (Ragbrai) is an annual seven-day bicycle ride across the state and is the longest, largest, and oldest touring bicycle ride in the world.