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Dont know if this question was before,i am interested whats the cheapest way to go from London to Dublin for 1 day,as a tourist,to get flight in the morning,spend a day in Dublin and go back to London?

Also i saw on Ryanair web page there are flights for 1 euro and it says no taxes,one guy told me that is not true that real price is 2 euro for 2 way ticket coz they calculate you tax later and you have to pay way more than 2 euro.I dont believe it coz on the same page in regular fares tax is calculated immediatlly in ticket price so i dont get why would they have hidden tax costs for these no taxes flights

mopi wrote: »

For the cheapest way you'll need to factor cost to travel to/from airports. Sticking with the Ryanair side of the deal a same day return for 2p is easy get if your not in a hurry, use a VISA Electron card to pay for the booking and 2p is all it will cost. If you are in a hurry there are £1/e1 tickets on sale right now. If you really want to save money book the outbound and return flights separately that way it's 1p LON2DUB and only 1c! DUB2LON now that's cheap ) You must checkin online, print your own tickets, take only hand luggage and do not buy travel insurance.

You can flight from (say) Luton and then back to Gatwick if it makes sense to do so.

But still as i saw even there are flights for 0 GBP there are taxes so at the end ticket for 2 ways cost 50-60GBP

Shouldn't be possible but yesterday (6th) I printed a two way pair where the return date is the 14th of Oct, the otherward bound flight is on the 8th so that's inside the 5 day rule.

Good to see both sides of the argument. My experience has not been happy. I travel every week to England and depending on where I need to be I take the most appropriate flights. At one stage the Derry to Stansted flights with Ryanair suited me best and I spent 3 months using this 'service' every week. Now Derry is a very small airport so you can't be sent to the wrong gate so there shouldn't be any issue there but here's a couple of examples of my Ryanair experience.

(1) Most weeks the flight out on a Monday morning was close to leaving on time so no complaints about that. But on one Monday the flight landed from Stansted (I won't say London as it's a long way from London) late and we were told just as we were expecting to take off that the flight was cancelled - no reason was given. We were sent back to the check-in desks where we duly queued to see what the story was. We were told that we could change to the late evening flight or get our money back. As I needed to be at work I asked to get my money back and was duly sent to another queue to the ticket desk to ask for my money back - why they couldn't have announced this first I'll never know. I was told my money would be paid back on my credit card within 5 days so I drove to Belfast and got a flight with BMI. When my credit card statement arrived 3 weeks later no refund had been made so to give them a chance I left it until I received the next statement. Again no refund so I rang Ryanair and eventually got through their automated system to be told I needed to fax my request in. I put together a fax explaining the issue and took two days to get through to the fax number I was given (the number was constantly busy). The refund was applied to my credit card 10 weeks after the flight was cancelled and I still have no idea why the flight was cancelled.

(2) The Friday evening flight was regularly more than 1 hour late but as I took the 4.00pm flight I was prepared for the usual delays. However, on one Friday we were told the plane had a technical fault and couldn't fly. They asked us to return to the gate at 6.00pm and there would be an announcement. The lady who announced also told us that (a) there was no seats available on the later flight or on the Saturday morning flight so if they couldn't find a plane that evening the earliest we could get out was Saturday evening and (b) don't be expecting any vouchers as they won't give you any. At 6.00pm no announcement was forthcoming - at 6.40 pm they announced that there would be a plane arriving which would take us to Derry at 10.00pm. Again the lady stressed "don't expect any vouchers". We eventually left Stansted at 10.30pm. For fun I thought I'll make a complaint and went through the pain of faxing through the issue. This time I got through in just over a day and a week later received an email saying my request for a refund under the EU legislation (I can't remember the number but this wasn't provided to passengers at Stansted or at Derry in the first example which the airline are legally obliged to do) was rejected as the 6.5 hour delay was not the fault of the airline. As I said I was just interested in what the response would be and I didn't push it further.

For the past 6 months I've been on a different project so the Aer Lingus flight from Belfast to Heathrow suits me better. In this time I've had 2 delays, one because the flight had been diverted to Luton on a Sunday evening due to thunder and lightning and couldn't get a slot into Heathrow on Monday morning before flying to Belfast so we had a 2 hour delay. The second was due to Air Traffic control in the south of England and we had a 3 hour delay two weeks ago. On both occasions the airline provided regular information and a £3 voucher - the staff couldn't have been nicer.

I would not say that I will not fly Ryanair again as I will use the most appropriate service but where there's a choice I would always use the alternative and the extra few quid on some occasions for a far better and more reliable service, for me, is worth it. Also, the myth about the "cheap flights" is simply not true if you need to be somewhere unless you're very lucky. I regularly compare the prices of the Aer Lingus Belfast-Heathrow flight and the Ryanair Derry-Stansted flight for Monday morning returning Friday evening and have found that the Aer Lingus flight is usually cheaper when all the add-ons are taken into consideration. Obviously, people can be lucky but in general there is little difference in the price and, in my opinion, the Aer Lingus service is way beyond anything I have ever experienced with Ryanair.