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How much should I worry about getting to Dublin Airport on Saturday?

  • 30-04-2015 7:07pm
    #1
    allfloaton
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭


    I have a 4pm international flight from Dublin airport on Saturday, 2 May.

    I have a citylink bus booked for 9:15am from Galway to Dublin Airport (not a direct, also stops in Dublin city). On its normal schedule, it should arrive at 12pm, giving me loads of time, so even if there is traffic that delays the bus, I should be grand on that account.

    However, my worries are about my luggage. Citylink says "two medium pieces of luggage." I have two... well, I'd call them on the large size of medium... bags that I need to take with me. I believe they are under the 20kg limit, but they are much bigger than the typical bags I see going on citylink coaches, which are usually the tiny wheelie cases.

    My main worry is that the bus will be so crowded due to the bus strike, that my luggage will be turned away because it is too big, and then there is no way for me to get to the airport.

    Can anyone give me advice/ease my worries? I just can't miss my flight or change it, and I don't want to have to spend and extra hundred euro to go to Dublin the night before and get a hotel at the airport.


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  • #2
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,082 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    allfloaton wrote: »
    I have a 4pm international flight from Dublin airport on Saturday, 2 May.

    I have a citylink bus booked for 9:15am from Galway to Dublin Airport (not a direct, also stops in Dublin city). On its normal schedule, it should arrive at 12pm, giving me loads of time, so even if there is traffic that delays the bus, I should be grand on that account.

    However, my worries are about my luggage. Citylink says "two medium pieces of luggage." I have two... well, I'd call them on the large size of medium... bags that I need to take with me. I believe they are under the 20kg limit, but they are much bigger than the typical bags I see going on citylink coaches, which are usually the tiny wheelie cases.

    My main worry is that the bus will be so crowded due to the bus strike, that my luggage will be turned away because it is too big, and then there is no way for me to get to the airport.

    Can anyone give me advice/ease my worries? I just can't miss my flight or change it, and I don't want to have to spend and extra hundred euro to go to Dublin the night before and get a hotel at the airport.

    Chill.

    Just turn up at the coach station a good 30-45 mins before the bus is due to leave, so you get your bags in first.

    Lots of people have bags bigger than the silly -wheelie cases.


  • #3
    allfloaton
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭allfloaton


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    Chill.

    Just turn up at the coach station a good 30-45 mins before the bus is due to leave, so you get your bags in first.

    Lots of people have bags bigger than the silly -wheelie cases.

    Thanks, that's the plan, I just needed reassurance that it will work out! Honestly, I'd call both of my bags "large," so that got me feeling nervous when I read "medium bags" whatever that means, anyway. But at Galway coach station, I think you load your own bags, so I don't think the driver would even necessarily see that they both belong to me anyway...


  • #4
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    You could always get a taxi for about 20 euro


  • #5
    allfloaton
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭allfloaton


    Zachariah Fancy Dandruff wrote: »
    You could always get a taxi for about 20 euro

    A regular galway city taxi would take me all the way to Dublin??


  • #6
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    allfloaton wrote: »
    A regular galway city taxi would take me all the way to Dublin??

    Ah no. What about booking a taxi from dublin - is imagine they'll be in demand this weekend


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  • #7
    allfloaton
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭allfloaton


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Ah no. What about booking a taxi from dublin - is imagine they'll be in demand this weekend

    Should all go to plan, I won't need a taxi, other than to get from my apartment to the bus station -- and, anyway, it's a 15 minute walk, I think I can leg it if I can't get a taxi for whatever reason!! Citylink busses drop you off right at the terminal, even, so once I get on a bus I should be grand.


  • #8
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,917 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    Zachariah Fancy Dandruff wrote: »
    You could always get a taxi for about 20 euro
    allfloaton wrote: »
    A regular galway city taxi would take me all the way to Dublin??



    I suspect that they meant a taxi from Dublin city centre, rather than Galway, having misread the thread.


  • #9
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,082 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    allfloaton wrote: »
    But at Galway coach station, I think you load your own bags, so I don't think the driver would even necessarily see that they both belong to me anyway...

    Nope, that's the bus station where the drivers don't help :)

    At the coach station, they do assist. And CityLink often have a passenger assistant there who helps also.

    But I still say Chill.

    If the bags are small enough that you can manage to carry or push them, they'll be fine.


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