Ryanair - Comments & Feedback Thread

miamoo

When you see a cheap price with Ryanair you have to book it there and then, the next day it will most probably have gone up.
If you don't have the money for the flights there is no point checking, you will just be annoyed if you see them really cheap.

kingston_toon

I'd wait, and would bet money on you getting the flights for £10 per person per direction (plus luggage charges on top of course). Ryanair's sales usually start 3 months before the date of travel, and because they change so often, routes can be included in one and not the next. If you can invest the time in checking *every* day from mid-Marrch onwards you'll eventually find a deal (even if it means booking one direction, then waiting and booking the other when it goes down in price).

You are also travelling on a Monday and a Thursday which are generally fairly good days for cheap fares. Have faith. It's a gamble but I do it for every single trip and it usually pays off. Even for Friday nights... the Fri evening flights to Bremen and Weeze often go down to £10/£5 inc all taxes, but usually only for a day or two, then the price goes back up.

Enjoy Friedrichshafen... it's a lovely town!

albalad

have just come back from a four day trip , where 6kg was plenty - including bag , sat nav , camera ,jeans and some winter clothes, spare shoes - wore boots , jacket hat & scarf going through customs .
I always now use a flexible holdall for ryanair as it is much lighter and flexible(for the sizing cage) a normal hard sided hand baggage case can weigh 2-3 kg on it's own

mr_maniac

I myself used less than 10kgs when I went to North Germany for 2 weeks (though I was staying with a family, rather than camping which requires you to bring some sort of camping stuff as well!) - we could probably squeeze all our stuff into 3 holdalls (I'd thought of that one as well albalad!), but that's probably something to be investigated in due course, if we decide to wait and see if the price comes down...

I'll have quite a hard job convincing the others that we should wait, though - the 'peace of mind' argument is quite a strong one, but if we decide to do that, we'll have to be prepared to pay more - quite a bit more, now that the price has gone back up again... if it returns to the sort of value we had yesterday, I think we'd book at that point rather than wait any longer, as I think everyone was happy with that price!

One of the group is now off on holiday somewhere, so we won't be making the payment for at least a week or so, so maybe there's not much point in looking again until we've got the money sorted and are ready to pay

mr_m

jaymac_2

I've done ten days in Spain with hand luggage only...and that was in January! Ten kilos is actually quite a lot though if you need camping equipment I can see you might have a problem.

BYW, on the Ryanair site, if you click on the "book now" at the top of the first page then tick " my dates are flexible" yoou can then move backwards and forwards on the calendar to find the cheaper flights.

mr_maniac

Thanks for that Jaymac - I've just tried that, and it appears that my flights would cost almost exactly the same, even if we were booking for August, at the height of peak-season!

Something tells me that we'd be being ripped off if we booked at this stage?

mr_m

FZwanab

Did you try the flight checker on this site? and are you signed up for the weekly emails, as they usually let you know when fares are at rock bottom.

Carol444_2

This is what I BELIEVE I have discovered about Easyjet flight prices, and I think the same holds true about Ryanair, but I stand to be corrected.

Firstly you get a normal flight period where no sales are taking place and flight prices are reasonable.

Next you get what I call the pre-sale period. This is a 2-week period before a sale when the prices to all destinations seem to drop.

Finally, you get to the sale period. In the sale period any destination which no one actually wants to go to, or any destination which has very expensive accomodation and a high cost of living (eating and drinking out and day trips) goes into the sale (1p for Ryanair and a certain percentage off for Easyjet).

HOWEVER any destination which most people want to go (Alicante) or any destination which has a cheap accomodation and a low cost of living, sees a flight price rise in the sale period.

The moral of the story is, for the best flight prices to the best destinations buy your tickets in the pre-sale period (2 weeks before any Sale occurs).

terryw

Carol444 wrote: »

This is what I BELIEVE I have discovered about Easyjet flight prices, and I think the same holds true about Ryanair, but I stand to be corrected.

Firstly you get a normal flight period where no sales are taking place and flight prices are reasonable.

Next you get what I call the pre-sale period. This is a 2-week period before a sale when the prices to all destinations seem to drop.

Finally, you get to the sale period. In the sale period any destination which no one actually wants to go to, or any destination which has very expensive accomodation and a high cost of living (eating and drinking out and day trips) goes into the sale (1p for Ryanair and a certain percentage off for Easyjet).

HOWEVER any destination which most people want to go (Alicante) or any destination which has a cheap accomodation and a low cost of living, sees a flight price rise in the sale period.

The moral of the story is, for the best flight prices to the best destinations buy your tickets in the pre-sale period (2 weeks before any Sale occurs).

Yep Carol , you have got it right. I wish I had written your post.;)

bw

terryw

terryya

I was just wondering if you miss the outward leg of your journey can you still use the return or do they cancel it?