Ryanair's DCC or Escape cashcard for flight in euros?

melb

sorry I will try and find myself but i want to book some flights asap in euros and my choices are the above. For flights costing 344 euros Ryanair will charge £321.21 but does anyone know offhand how much the Escape will charge will mark-ups etc? thanks if you can help

fifeken

melb wrote: »

sorry I will try and find myself but i want to book some flights asap in euros and my choices are the above. For flights costing 344 euros Ryanair will charge £321.21 but does anyone know offhand how much the Escape will charge will mark-ups etc? thanks if you can help

You can avoid Ryanair's DCC and pay in GBP if this helps to reduce/eliminate the charges and hence the overall cost. It's a trick to do with opening two windows and then closing one at a certain stage in the process. It's written up on here if you can find it or hopefully someone will come along and point you in the right direction.

lfc84

example: DUB-MAN paying in GPB

Get to the page where Ryanair shows you a week of flights from DUB (with prices in Euro) but go no further. Open another Ryanair window and search for any flight from UK, then go back to the DUB-MAN page and click through on your chosen flight, the price should now be in GBP.

melb

thanks for both your replies but as the cost was the same in euros as GBP I thought it would work out cheaper to pay in euros. In the end i used a currency converter tool which equated Ryanair's exchange cost of £321 as being 376 euros so I took the chance that the Escape card would be cheaper. Iwon't know if it was until I can get to an ATM to see how much is left on the escape card. thanks for help

apt

The Ryanair rate is poor so you will have saved some money. I saved about 4% with the fairfx anywhere card.