Contrary to all the negative stuff above, we went on one of these trips last August for 3 days. Paid £9.99 each way for flights to Cologne, hired a car for £60 (paid with Tesco vouchers) stayed at Base Camp Bonn for 2 nights for £90 for 2adulte + 2 kids, and bought tickets for Phantasialand (on a PE with Eurodisney/Alton Towers etc) for about £90 on funtickets.be. Family of 4, mini-summer holiday for under £300. Kept the kids amused for a few days and we had a fantastic time. There are so many possibilities with flight deals like this, as long as you're not too narrow-minded!

A soaring deal reindeer :smile:

cold ...its ryan air

would never fly on this people hating Union bashing Oleary hell airline

Of course they're a nice mob to fly with, they give you complimentary ickle bars of chocolate on take off and landing :wink: along with a free sarnie and bevvy, even on short haul.

As for safety? No such thing as safety anywhere, let alone when it comes to travelling in a tin can with wings, because when they drop out the sky you're brown bread. I've never been one to worry about terror but I don't trust Biggles up the front to not be fiddling with the trolley dolly or sticking an Henry of shovel up his hooter when he's got us on board :smirk:

As an air traffic controller I trust you fully support your comrades across the channel when they show their evil capitalist regime(don't mention Hollande is a red though) who is boss every time they walk out?

I don't think she would be delighted to hear this because according to my next door neighbour, a leftist pavement pounder of decades well in the know of all things team Trotsky UK, it's a badly kept secret she's not one for the boys.

I'm sure Diane Abbott would be delighted to hear this.

Each to their own. I'm an air traffic controller and therefore also prefer to fly out of my local airport, mainly because it's 10 minutes along the road and I can get free parking, but when that's not suitable I tend to choose my flights based on price, airline safety record and convenience rather than principles or politics.

Enjoy the flights with Swiss, they're a nice lot to fly with, but I'll continue to pick the best value airline for my own needs (usually BA/AA for me, but often Ryanair for short haul stuff) and I'll not worry too much about receiving criticism for doing so on an Internet thread about low cost fares. :smiley:

O'Leary couldn't even decide what side he was on in the referendum till sleazebag Juncker slipped a few sheets his way.

Got to love people with ethics :smirk: I much prefer to use my local airport so I fly out of Silvertown, luckily I can afford to spend a fiver more so I use Swiss and go via Zurich or Basel to absolutely everywhere.

I'd rather have a one night stand with Diane Abbott than use Ryanair :man:

Me!! Love them. Great safety record, loads of free luggage (unlike Thomson, Thomas Cook!), and as punctual as any other airline. And of course almost always the cheapest around.

Despite the huge number of Ryanair haters, every time I fly with them the airplane is FULL!. Who likes them then? :-)

Please could you be as so kind to point out anything I said that was bigoted flower, sorry I meant shamrock, because the last time I looked the thought police in here are as hyper active as the green goddess on a Henry of pink bubbly in 1982.

Oh by the way I write this from Zum Heimchen.....a Catholic Hungarian establishment in Catholic Eisentstadt which kind of suggests I am zero bigoted whilst you're the one who happens to be spouting utter outlandish assumptions drawn from your own bigoted outlook on life after seeing my avatar.

And finally, never forget where Seán Russell came to his sticky end poppet and of course better not to mention O'Leary's Uncle Tommy, do have a lovely evening :smirk:

Hajrá Fradi! Tschüß tschüß

​Keep your bigoted bile out of this deal forum and to confines of your sevco forum please.

Hahaha let's keep to Deutsches Fussball then

Hole is a bit harsh, especially when I have managed to knock Poznan in 91, Vukovar in 92 and Castries in about 98 off my list, but Leverkusen is something like Basingstoke on a Tuesday night in February :smirk: just with loads of Bayer related factories and offices lobbed in.

You really would only go there for business, family/friends or football because it's got absolutely nothing going for it.

Until I gave up smoking three years ago I'd much rather have stayed on the other side of the border anyway.

Heerlen/Kerkrade is also a dump but at least there's a couple of decent coffeeshops there, Venlo ain't too bad but I found Sittard the most pleasant of them Dutch border towns

You'll most probably take this wrong as I'm a West Ham fan , but if you say it's a hole & knowing the area around the Den reasonably well , I'm glad I didn't try to get tickets as it must be bad :wink:

Must be drug salesmen to the NHS lol I went there with Rangers 20 years ago and it's a hole where even the natives seemed to follow more traditional clubs close by.

Bayer 04, VW Rovers Wolfsburg and of course those plastic R B dregs from Leipzig too now are all like MK Dons to me.

Don't get me started on franchise football and multi national corporations bank rolling Mickey Mouse clubs please :confused:

Flying there is a cheap way of seeing football too. Leverkusen is about 7 or 8 miles away & several of their English based fans were catching the same flight back to Stansted as myself last year :smiley:

Got to give it them on the football front too, Köln seem to be a bit lefty nowadays as are the bulk of Düsseldorf too unfortunately :disappointed: but my life some atmosphere their ultras generate and what numbers their firm get up for the derby against Gladbach :wink:

Cologne's brilliant. The build of the Airport may give some people a headache , but would recommend the City & surrounding area to all.

Yes, Ryanair have their own - use the Fare Finder function on the Ryanair website, then you can specify as much or as little info as you want, all you need to give is the departure airport. They've tinkered with it recently tho and it's a bit glitchy but keep refreshing and it'll work.

Also Skyscanner as mentioned above but it's not always accurate with generic searches.

MSE Flight Checker does something similar too, worth a look.

​aye right!....

Yes, Skyscanner

Is there a website that shows cheap fares without the punter specifying a destination? For people who can be flexible about where they go?

Hi HotUK members
I can only speak of my experience involving flights to Spain,3yrs ago when i flew with Ryanair i was charged for using toilet paper in the loo, I argued furiously saying of course i used toiletpaper did they want me to daub the wall with feecees?
Last year again i went to Spain this time i took incontinence pants with me (adult size) and my own toilet roll , inflight i had two bottles of wine when i felt the urge to go, I went to the toilet just staggering in before my bladder emptied it self out. Fortunately i had the incontinence pants on and dumped the pants in the toilet bin. Just before landing the Chief Stewardess came over and called me into her office to say they were charging me with gross behaviour for dumping a soiled incontinence pad in the toilet bin.
I was angry and went on the attack " you're talking a load of crap" i said . No she said you are the one talking crap and doing crap. I told her i know my rights, every one has the right if caught short to do what they have to do, why do you think we fought two world wars with Germany? you look in in the Magna Carta you will find in olde English it mentions a mans home is his cattle etc etc and further down it says if any man ( or woman )can give goode cause for depositing the remains of his meal in public no action will be taken against him or anyone with him. Little did i know the cabin crew were listening and they burst out in applause.
I swaggered out like a lord to go back to my seat not realising my Y fronts were ontop of my trousers like superman, passengers laughed and clapped but i didnt care. I have heard nothing since from the airline but i think they know i was right. I have not flown with them ever since that incident.

What you going to do, collect names and addressess of those who don't like provoair and have us knee-capped?

I fly regularly with work and invariably I end up on Easyjet or Ryanair. Easyjet is still better than Ryanair but to be fair to O'leary he has put his hands up and accepted that their customer care was shocking. I have seen massive improvements over the last year and I am no longer filled with dread when facing a flight with them.

Voted hot, came into the thread solely just to see what kinda anti-Ryanair waffle would be posted. Not disappointed! :stuck_out_tongue:

cologne is a lovely city liked the two floor airport as well when I went I paid £6 for coming back from Cologne to Gatwick by easyjet I think was 13 years ago though. Ryanair are bunch of idiots used them once not nice staff I'd say

Now this is how you save... Haha. Well done

Thanks for the input :smiley:

Your comment doesn't make sense.

Contrary to all the negative stuff above, we went on one of these trips last August for 3 days. Paid £9.99 each way for flights to Cologne, hired a car for £60 (paid with Tesco vouchers) stayed at Base Camp Bonn for 2 nights for £90 for 2adulte + 2 kids, and bought tickets for Phantasialand (on a PE with Eurodisney/Alton Towers etc) for about £90 on funtickets.be. Family of 4, mini-summer holiday for under £300. Kept the kids amused for a few days and we had a fantastic time. There are so many possibilities with flight deals like this, as long as you're not too narrow-minded!

Why?

Damn it, if it was only for August I would have taken it for Cologne. Superb deal.

Repugnant company run by the nephew of a republican gun runner versus rabble rousing Trotskyist unions hmmmm let em tear each others' throats out I say :smile:

Nice, will get one way and join the line to get a German passport

Might just treat myself to a flight into the refugee camp, ekhem cologne

would never fly on this people hating Union bashing Oleary hell airline

Jesus. i was thinking about going Dusseldorf with Ryanair. It's quicker to get to Eindhoven then to Dusseldorf!

Great for those crapping it when it comes to going to Turkey etc

Formerly known as RAF Laarbruch. I spent 6 year there in the 80s/90s. It is a fair way to Dusseldorf.

A soaring deal reindeer :smile:

You're flying to europe..

If you go to Cologne, avoid the train station!

the "Dusseldorf" they fly you to is right next to the Dutch border and a long way from Dusseldorf!

good find op, heat added :smiley:

cold ...its ryan air