Such an awful airline - You have to make your own way to the airport, they don't send a Chauffeur. Then you have to carry your bags to the terminal, no Valet is provided.

How uncivilized.

we recently flew to Spain.
I had one small suitcase, the lightest possible for an adult.
My children both had large suitcases, much heavier. However, a child's luggage is half the price of an adult's, so it was a big saving. You have to have at least one adult paying full price for a suitcase but it doesn't have to be particularly big.

You just need to be sure when checking in the luggage to use the right boarding pass with the right suitcase!

thats not the catch, problem is the whole journey takes eight days

Also if booking return leg in Euros, click more in conversion box to deselect Ryanair doing the conversion. if you have a good card with low conversion fees you can save more. €14.99 with Ryanair conversion is roughly £11.80 but only £10.14 with my Travelex Supercard.

Yes true, about that time my friend sat and used my computer to book over 30 1p flights one morning and when I questioned him about it , he said, well if I don't use them all I haven't lost much have I.

Direct. The deal was posted here 9 years ago

Can you find anything on the new website ? Even accessing it is a pain from computers with old browsers. Hate the new look myself.

Resurrecting and old thread, but I can no longer find this option on the new style website? Has anyone else found this?

my first flight was a decent 8am and I live two miles away, the last landed jut before six (hour difference 5 in Uk) and had a leisurely stroll about the two airports with no stress as had time to spare.....that alone was worth the bother.....total each was 60 euros, these flights a re only about half to one hour each and are dirt cheap x

Direct! It was on the good old days back in 2007!


http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/flights-for-1p-includes-tax-16164#

I've had hand luggage taken at the bottom of the aircraft steps due to this new 90 cases rule but not been told I can check them in which maybe to save time taking cases off people as they board.

Experienced the same recently on a DUB - LBA Ryanair flight. We are a family of four. All 4 hand luggage bags checked in for free.

Hopefully someone will benefit:
approx 1 month ago i was flying from brussels charleroi to manchester.
I only ever carry hand-cabin luggage on my ryanair booking (learnt to travel light)!
My luggage weighed 8kg...
when my luggage went through checks, I was told I was able to check this bag in for FREE, by franch speaking belgian, who then escorted me back to checkin desks and queue jumped, waited and then took me back through.
I asked the lady at the check-in desk who was English...she explained this was something new -that any CABINLUGGAGE up to the weight of 20kg was now FREE to check in.....
and then i was thinking about all the liquids i could have packed on my earlier journey!

...she said this was something new and may also be temporary but is currently in place...worth enquiring about!

I was also thinking i could have checked in a bag and taken hand luggage and hand bag....but of course i dont need to generally speaking.

:smiley: let me know your thoughts/finds!

that's a neat trick with airhint : what confidence do you have that it means what it says?

I normally just throw my euros away. I've never viewed it as real money.

Ryanair are what they are a cheep way to fly round Europe I fly Bournemouth to Malaga return several times a yr with a case because of sun creams and liquids and nice cloths for about £130 return who cares what seat I sit on don't give a dam about speedy boarding don't buy their food or drinks can last 4 hours with a bottle water. Just read the T and C your not getting on with a 30kg case as hand luggage so don't try but you will provide free entertainment to the rest of us if you do. They run on time they get you their cheep and safe. They do take the **** with their debit card fees but then I'm not paying £180 for the sam flight with another airline. Anyway the train trip in the UK to the airport cost more.

Check other airlines before booking Ryan air. Cheaper with Thomas Cook and Monarch and with more luggage allowance

I spent 6 years stationed at that old RAF airfield (Laarbruch) in the 80's. Not a bad place to live actually.

Yes Ryanair's vision of Dusseldorf is an old RAF airfield over 30 miles from the city of Dusseldorf.

I'd like to point out that when I applied for an Halifax Clarity card I was quoted 21% apr which was 6% higher than my Halifax Platinum, as I pay off my card each month this would not affect me but anyone who does not pay off their card would be paying for the privilege of better exchange with higher repayments. These charges are unique to me and my credit score and each person would be charged according to their credit score, so please be alert, nothings ever free.

thanks for the effort you put in posting this info, I for one found it very helpful and I will use it the next time I decide to never book Ryanair again.

I hope you are a female.

Then you are lucky, Stansted = worst airport I have ever used, and I have used a lot.

I usually have over s grand of camera gear in my bag. I always go priority to make sure it stays with me on the plane. And if another passenger tries to move it once I've placed it in the overhead bins.... they get short shrift lol.

If you haven't paid for allocated seating you could get split up even though you did all go on one booking.

does it show you how many seats are left? say I had a group of 10, booking everyone individually is no issue but don't want to be in a position of seats finishing before everyone gets a ticket.

Ryanair are one of the cheapest flight companies you will find. If you play by their rules they're fine. The only issues are that there is no checked in baggage unless you're willing to pay extra, and it can be hard fitting everything into your hand luggage while keeping within their size and weight requirements. They're very hit and miss with how strictly they enforce such baggage restrictions, and if you're caught on the wrong side of them it's a £50 charge per bag. Similarly with online check in, you will be charged if you try to check in at the airport, you need to check in and printing your boarding pass before the flights, some hours before. If you're not careful that £30 flight can quickly climb. They also fly to outside of where you generally want, meaning you need to take some sort of transport from the Airport to the city you're actually interested in, which means transport costs you wouldn't have with a non-budget line.

All in all, Ryanair are fine and a good way to travel, just make sure to play by their rules and you take account of other things like transport.

That is exactly my logic.
But I could also understand that a few people might prefer to get priority boarding as they will have more chance to get their luggage in the overhead locker.

You will often find your cabin suitcase will be put on free hold luggage which for some people will be inconvenience as they will need to wait their for luggage coming out from the conveyor belt on the other end
to be

They say they have improved customer service 2015........shame they didnt improve the airline itself!!!

But you kind of expect it anyway from these cheap airlines.

I imagine the only problem with this method is you all may be split up on the plane instead of sitting together. Unless you then paid for allocated seating but then you would lose any savings made.

Yeah just keep adding seats till the price goes up...

does it show you that information?

I booked some flights a few months ago, the price for one seat was £27 but when I added five seats to the booking the price for all seats jumped to £35 each, as there were only 3 seats left at £27, so did two booking one for 3 seats at £27 and one for two seats at £35...

Why? When did you last fly with them? And what happened?

is point 1 in the opening post about booking tickets individually for each person as oppose to a group booking and booking everyone together? so if 4 people are flying, you book each ticket for each person separately?

direct? or via 15 other airports....:laughing:

I once went to Milan with my wife for and paid 4p for the flights ( return!)

The only problem is when you need to cancel your parking. By booking direct with Jetparks - no hassle but if you need to cancel parking booked with Ryanair, you lose the money. Happened to me last time, both ryanair and jetparks washed their hands.

Oddly I have found the same when flying out of Edinburgh. Twice now when booking a last minute flight I've found booking the on-site long stay parking is cheaper via Ryanair compared to anyone else.

I would actually class myself as one of those people who avoided Ryanair like the plague. But since they introduced allocated so it’s no longer a scrum I don’t actually mind flying them for short haul flights. Now I’m flying 15-20 times a year with them. I normally have my head in a book on a flight so to be honest it doesn’t really matter to me who I’m flying with, as long as I get there on time and at a good price then I’m happy.

Follow the basic rules (I mean, how hard is it really to make sure your luggage is a certain size/weight and you have your boarding pass in advance?) and you will be fine.

The baggage trick is working and I have tried it several times.
Last time was going to Rabat morocco, flight was £35 + £20 luggage, this is a one way ticket as I booked the return desperately and it was £32 + £9 for luggage and this is due to the currency exchange as well as the prices were different anyway if I was to buy both tickets in one go.
Some fellows up saying it's an old trick and doing it for ten years... Good for you but not everyone is aware of it and no harm in sharing good practices and that's the beauty of HUKD

Issue is that RA has to be at last 25% cheaper than any other airline to make it worth considering.....if they can do this then I would, but still not when with flying with kids as delays get much more problematic. Still they are doing well and don't seem to be short of bookings...

Booked a Ryanair return flight from Stansted a couple of days ago.
Would never normally consider their own car parks / insurance / car hire add-on's.
Obtained quotes from various airport park websites first, cheapest I could find was Jet Parks £39.99 for 7 days. Included Jet Parks within my Ryanair booking at £34.79.
That's a fiver I didn't expect to save!
Reference number for car parks is same as flight booking so I'm guessing they may have their own allocated chunk of car park within Jet Parks?

Agreed. Why pay the extra for being on board longer? Now everyone has an allocated seat, why the need to get on board so quickly??

It is a grey area. They will argue they are not charging UK people more but they are using their own conversion rate ....

Mind you there are a lot of people have been saying this, yet they still fly Ryan Air once they know that the alternative flight could be ten times more....

You will only believe the people who are saying "never again to fly Ryan Air" will not break their promise if this wordings are spell out by the people who could effort to lead a millionaire lifestyles. Well, people who could lead a millionaire lifestyle are not a lot on this planet earth and definitely will not bother to visit HUKD in the first instance..

Like Michael O’ Larry used to say to p**s off people in the past “if you hate Ryan Air do not fly Ryan Air”. Other people have said "you pay nothing you get nothing"

I think he is right as there are a lot of the bargain hunters out there with reasonable expectation will keep flying Ryan Air who will be more than happy to take your seats. There are a lot of bargain hunters out there who play by the rule with reasonable expectation, they
- Do not expect to get refunded or to be scheduled if they miss the flight due to their own fault
- Do not expect to be seated together or allocated a seat if they have not paid for it. You have family, OHs, children, etc. and want to be seated together pay for it, otherwise prepare to seat separately. It is only a few hours anyway.
- Do not mind to be asked to pay check in luggage if they break Ryan Air baggage rule for cabin baggage.
- Do not expect to get meal or refreshment onboard as they know they have not paid for it ...
- Do have the hard copy of their boarding pass, not on electronic form on tabs pr phone.
- etc

It is all on the t&c which you have agreed before purchasing ...

Play by the rule, lower your expectation, you will love it, I do ....
The rule is there to ensure RA could keep the price low and to make more people fly on budget...

For small amount, you will realise that quie often (if not always) Ryan Air is using conversion £/EUR = 1:1. So the flight in £9.99 or £19.99, etc for intances if you book it in Euros, it will be EUR9.99 or EUR19.99 respectively . So you are always be better off if could book a cheap flight in Euros and not in £.

I always do that on my return flight, from somewhere in Europezone to UK. by booking two seperate flights.
But I have yet to find how to book flight originated from UK to somewhere else in Europezone in Euros ??

Anyone know how to book Ryanair flights originated from the UK in Euros ??

You only get priority Q for free if you book and pay for a premium seat , not the ordinary cheap seats

Thanks for the post and the helpful-useful discussion it brings up!

Is it legal for them to charge more for UK customers than European ones? Disneyland Paris are currently being done for charging residents of some European contries more than others.

you are describing North Korea

Misc, surely?

Personally i dont mind paying in advance if it guarantees me first on and more importantly first off and would never risk leaving it on the off chance i normally fly with ryanair about 10 times a year.

they will only give for free the last to check in on a full flight, quite often at boarding they still have a couple of extra leg room seats if anyone wants an upgrade

all spot on. Have used them all before!!!!!! saved a fortune on booking a stag do. booked 6 at cheaper price then 7 at slightly dearer. trying to book 13 was all at slightly dearer. Another ploy that I can recommend is to leave checking in till the day you fly out. seat allocation is fill middle of plane. so if you book day check in opens you end up in the middle. if you are last to check in you get unsold priority seats. had extra leg room half the time and priority seats 1-5 (i think) the other half. was only split from partner once. I do check in on day of flight but.

I just checked their terms and conditions and this is what it says just for clarification as i normally only book row 2 so wasn't sure about other seats but here goes
Front Row Seat from £/€ 15.00 - Rows 1 A,B,C and 2 D,E,F. Rapid exit seats include priority boarding.
Premium Seats from £/€10.99 - Rows 2-7 and rows 16 & 17 (extra leg room). Premium seats include priority boarding. Passengers who have purchased Priority Boarding will
not be asked to place their cabin bag in the aircraft hold, unless necessary due
to operational reasons.
Regular Seats from £/€5.99 – All other seats (rows 8-15 and rows 18-33). Regular Seats may be upgraded to include Priority Boarding from £/€2.99 per person/per flight.

guess so? but at the time i booked all 6 together and just paid 6x the same for seats only, you can add priority at a further cost

Nope, if you pay for your seat you get priority boarding, trust me I use this airline 30+ times a year.

so the ones on row 8 if they want pty boarding will have to pay

never knew 1-7 got auto priority without charge?
6 of us off next weekend, 4 got it on 6&7 , 2 on row 8 didn't

Also Korky if you book a premium seat like row 1-7 and 15 and 16 then you automatically get pty

every passenger gets a selected seat, priority gets you front of queue to avoid risk of get bag put in the hold

ok i just did a dummy check on that flight if you got row 2 and row 7 they are classed as premium seats thereby you will have pty boarding

Sorry what exact row letter

Hi archer1204. 2 on one and 7 on another

I am going to pop another post within a post - not sure who might read this...

For car hire I generally use Luz Cars in Faro - a bit more pricey but a good service. One small tip for Faro and other locations is that many of the websites use "Cartrawler" - when you book your car whilst the logos of the booking form belong to the airlines you are, on occasions, diverted to an embedded third party - Cartrawler.

Cartrawler own Argus car rental - just google to find it - you never know, you might be missing out the middle man / woman!

Bring on the car hire tips (not sure how to do a thread but someone might...)!

Hi can i just ask what the seat numbers and row are

How the hell is this a deal? It's just a tip.

I suppose someone will post advise saying book early and get better prices and post as a deal?

Hi virgo17. I have just printed off my boarding passes for my Sunday flight. I booked seats when I booked the flight and in the top right hand corner I have "Priority Q" on both - I didn't pay for priority...!

Maybe it is just for Manchester Faro but... I would be surprised!

Should be in Misc

Totally correct. Ryanair have not given priority boarding to customers who have paid for seats for quite a few years now.

I've flown with my 4 children (aged 8-18) with Ryanair for the past 3 years (England to Spain and back) and have never had a problem with them. The staff that I've had to deal with - on the ground and in the air, have always been polite and most helpful. This year (returned from a holiday last week), my oldest son was really car sick flying to the airport, and ended up walking up the steps of the plane with a plastic sick bag over his face! The captain greeted us at the top of the steps and was most polite. He told my son that it was important to drink plenty of water, gave him a handful of sick bags and said that if any more could be done to make his trip more comfortable, to let a member of staff on board know.

Disregarding this, I don't understand why people grumble about Ryanair - the fares are relatively decent (if you book at the right time) and we've never experienced any delays, late arrivals, or lost luggage with them. One good thing is the fact that they now allocate you a seat (if you don't want to pay to select your own). A couple of years ago, I remember it tipping with rain when we had to board the plane. I know that some people don't like getting wet, but there were quite a lot of grown adults charging for the plane with their suitcases and bashing into young children and not even stopping to apologise! At least with allocated seating, it stops that huge rush for the plane seats. One thing that I would say though, is that if you are a family with young children, it is really worthwhile to pay out to select your own seat. If it adds on too much money for the whole family, perhaps make sure that there is at least one adult/parent sat next to a young child - this year I did see quite a few families grumbling on the plane because they were not given allocated seating together.

Thanks OP - this will be useful for me in a few weeks :smiley:

Don't forget the good old halifax clarity card - offers (usually) unbeatable euro exchange rate. Last time I used it (July) I got €1.41 whereas the best currency rate was €1.38 so big savings to be had. Just be mindful that as its a credit card you'll incur additional charges for the flights - worth it IMO if over £100 though for the extra protection you get.

You should also be aware that if you book multiple flights, then if your first flight is delayed and you miss the later ones, then you're screwed, even though they are still Ryanair flights. Their punctuality is not bad, but you have to be aware of it when you split flights.

good on ye !

I'm fairly sure that's not the case. You can only select (and pay for) priority boarding if you have paid for booked seats but paid for booked seats don't automatically give you priority boarding.

we recently flew to Spain.
I had one small suitcase, the lightest possible for an adult.
My children both had large suitcases, much heavier. However, a child's luggage is half the price of an adult's, so it was a big saving. You have to have at least one adult paying full price for a suitcase but it doesn't have to be particularly big.

You just need to be sure when checking in the luggage to use the right boarding pass with the right suitcase!

Such an awful airline - You have to make your own way to the airport, they don't send a Chauffeur. Then you have to carry your bags to the terminal, no Valet is provided.

How uncivilized.

You're not doing yourself any favours your supposed to say they are a terrible airline etc

At least with Ryanair you can take a handbag as well as hand luggage!

cant believe how much folk moan about Ryanair,if you do as they say then everything is all good,if you want to behave like a little princess then your always going to get hassle

fear not people always believe the worse version of events on the internet so no one will actually believe what i said.

my top ryanair tip is tell everyone how terrible they are that their customer service sucks and their planes are made of paper mache. then everytime you want to book a ticket there are plenty of seats available. oh this is being written from madrid following a flight with ryanair that left on time, arrived on time and they didnt lose my bag and thanks to buying my food and drink airside at STN i didnt buy owt onboard. and all this for £40 return.

Is it a bargain ?????
TBH, what you mention here is not new. Everyone who call himself as a bargain hunters who travel a few times in a year should have known ...

That's what I thought too

Darn OP, you would have written a 10-page book titled "Ryanair Secrets" and flogged it on Amazon Kindle store and fleabay for a quid to make some dough because these tricks work. :wink:

Not exactly a deal though.

Most disgraceful airline to have EVER existed.

Would only fly with them if I had absolutely no other option.

Disgusting company with no customer service or morals at all.

I see, my mistake! Sorry.

Also if booking return leg in Euros, click more in conversion box to deselect Ryanair doing the conversion. if you have a good card with low conversion fees you can save more. €14.99 with Ryanair conversion is roughly £11.80 but only £10.14 with my Travelex Supercard.

thanks for the tips
Useful

Note that the OP refers to baggage only not the return flight cost.

thats not the catch, problem is the whole journey takes eight days

If you play by their rules, they are as good as any other airline, and much cheaper. Shame I live miles from Stansted.

I think he meant £60 pp

nice one!

own seat for a charge yeah?

Do Ryanair have allocated seats or is it still a rush and fight job?

Yes, that happened to me too on a booking from Dublin handful - they used to give you the option of paying in £s or Euros at one time but that seems to have disappeared now - that is one of the "marmite" things about Ryanair but, as I say, all in all they have been good to me despite a well bitten tounge!

I may have done this wrong previously but I recently booked a return flight from Brussels to Lanzarote and when I chose to pay with a UK debit/credit card it converted the transaction from Euros to GBPs, at a pretty dire exchange rate. Couldn't be bothered to investigate why but assumed that was how it had to be?

should this not be in Misc? Thanks for the tips OP. Many people may know about this but im sure lots don't. besides, reminders like these are always welcome.

Probably

aren't you just repeating what grinnaslee said or did you just use the quote function to make it clear what you were responding to?

Aren't you just repeating the same thing or did the OP get edited?

This probably won't help many people and it's not a massive saving but if you are flying from Bristol airport and need to use a trolley they will charge you £2 for the privilege,but if you have euros then you can pay €2 instead of £2.

Did this flying back from Faro this summer, realised it was cheaper for the flight and baggage as it is in Euro's. Def worth checking the single flights.

2.
Also try booking return flights separately e.g. the leg there separate to the journey back, this will be priced in Euros and can be cheaper.

Ha ha, been doing all this for over ten years ......tomorrow I will take three flights to get to Granada, a cost of about £60 each, direct is £140 each.......I still use Ryanair and also admire how prompt they are, unfortunately they don't fly from my local airport...........also check British Airways as I am flying back for £18 each which includes two items of hand luggage and free food and bar- enjoy.