Cheapest Ryanair flight - where to and how much?

sunflower27

Just booked a flight today to London in three weeks to see my best friend. Flying out of Dublin on Friday afternoon, back Monday afternoon -all in it came to 40e (12e of which is administration fee).

Was quite impressed with that.

I'm sure plenty of you have done better, so what's the cheapest flight you have got anywhere with Ryanair?

Am so excited, bloody need to get away...

PrincessLola

Ferries are about 30 euro one way and theres no baggage restrictions:)
I hate the way ryannair flights lack reading material, there are no magazines or anything..

admiralofthefleet

i got dublin>stanstead>nimes and nimes>stanstead>dublin for 180 a few years ago

Tusky

Ive flown return from Dublin to London for 2c a couple of times.

JustAddWater

Got dublin to cork and back €20 yoyo's!!

€5 each way plus €5 each way cc charge so €20 return!

For 2, it was cheaper than 1 person on a train. Was bout 3 years ago. Also just back from birmingham which was €50 return

chucken1

I got Shannon-Gdansk return, for 4cent plus 12euro(admin fee). It was the last flight between the 2 places :mad:

I LOVE Ryanair:D

Agricola

Krakow to Pisa - 20euro for 2 people.

sunflower27

Tusky wrote: »

Ive flown return from Dublin to London for 2c a couple of times.

Fees and charges?

Posy

You can get 'no tax' flights to London for €5. I think the credit card charge is around €4, so a flight to London for under a tenner, including charges, afaik.

Mike 1972

Open up Skyscanner.net

Select "any" as your departure and destination airports select "flexible on dates" sort by price and filter by airline and theres your answer.

cson

Cheapest I've gotten were from Shannon; to Faro and London - €20 return all in [inc credit card charges and all]. Kinda crazy when you consider the bus to Shannon from Limerick is half that.

Ryanair when you play by the rules/know what to expect.

baldbear

sunflower27 wrote: »

Just booked a flight today to London in three weeks to see my best friend. Flying out of Dublin on Friday afternoon, back Monday afternoon -all in it came to 40e (12e of which is administration fee).

Was quite impressed with that.

I'm sure plenty of you have done better, so what's the cheapest flight you have got anywhere with Ryanair?

Am so excited, bloody need to get away...

€50 for 2 to Birmingham i think. You can avoid that €6 each way admin. rip off charge. Buy a prepaid mastercard for a one off €6. It would of save you approx. €7 http://www.payzonemoney.com/

partyatmygaff

In the past three years i've managed to fly to London STND, Brussels (Charleroi) and Birmingham airport for for 2c return each.

Say what you want about Ryanair but there is no other company in the world capable of an offer like that.

endabob1

Luton Shannon Return £20 each, cost more to leave the car at the airport for the weekend!

AfterDusk

PrincessLola wrote: »

Ferries are about 30 euro one way and theres no baggage restrictions:)
I hate the way ryannair flights lack reading material, there are no magazines or anything..

So what do you suppose those glossy things that the cabin crew walk down the cabin with are, while asking passengers if they want a copy of the Inflight Magazine?

For Forks Sake

neil2304 wrote: »

So what do you suppose those glossy things that the cabin crew walk down the cabin with are, while asking passengers if they want a copy of the Inflight Magazine?

Pornography?

udonwannado

PrincessLola wrote: »

Ferries are about 30 euro one way and theres no baggage restrictions:)
I hate the way ryannair flights lack reading material, there are no magazines or anything..

Ferries get you to wales, how much would you then spend on petrol / train / bus to get to your destination, london, leeds, newcastle etc. How much luggage do you actually need? I don't need to check bags in if its only a weekend.
If you want reading material take some with you, thats one of the stupudest things i've ever heard. And when you say anything exactly what do you mean? Flights to the UK are normally no more than an hour. And as far as I know the longest you would spend on a ryanair flight is 3-3 1/2 hours. Are you telling me you want ryanair to provide you with entertainment for that time period? When in some cases the flight costs less than the trip to the airport!

Tusky

sunflower27 wrote: »

Fees and charges?

Nope. Total of 1c each way.

thee glitz

udonwannado wrote: »

Ferries get you to wales, how much would you then spend on petrol / train / bus to get to your destination, london, leeds, newcastle etc.

and why the feck would you be going to Leeds :pac:

It's about €85 return to any UK train station from Dublin port and cheaper again to nearer ones.... no messin, you can turn up on the day with your 80/85 quid and youll get there and back. as a bonus, it's a 1 month open return.

scrapsmac

Tusky wrote: »

Nope. Total of 1c each way.

I can second this! It was a good few years ago but I know the deal! Ryanair did 1p/1c flights with no taxes or charges (pre tourist tax crap). We flew to London then on to Eindhoven for 2p! Infact we booked 4 or 5 different return flights that summer to Bremen/Eindhoven/London/Gdansk etc..

silverwood

udonwannado wrote: »

stupudest things

:D:D

galwayrush

Dublin to Manchester for 16 euro last week. I honestly expected to be hit with taxes / airport charges at the airport, thankfully not.

jive

PrincessLola wrote: »

I hate the way ryannair flights lack reading material, there are no magazines or anything..

LMAO. They're not flying libraries jesus. How about buy a magazine that interests you in the airport shops, people complain about the most ridiculous things. You know what I hate about Ryanair flights? The lack of hookers onboard - what's that about??

udonwannado

udonwannado wrote: »

thats one of the stupudest things i've ever heard.

Now i feel really stupud!

rossie1977

cheapest flight i got was dublin to pisa for 1 cent

Senna

I booked a few of the €1 "no tax" ryanair flights before. Never actually got to go on any of them:(
I'd book them well in advance and try and pick dates i think would suit, but everytime i couldn't go for one reason or another. Ryanair made about €10 off me and i never even fly with them.
Used to use an Entropay card so never any Credit card charges either.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

Been flying Dublin to Manchester every week since September for €8 each way total. Only need to book about three weeks in advance. Have to have an entropay prepaid Mastercard though to avoid charges.

Storminateacup

8 euro and 4 cent from dublin to stansted and back, for 4 days!!!

it cost me more to get to dublin lol

Spread

Lots of flights Dublin: Stanstead/Luton/Birmingham/Baden Baden over the years for €10/€16 per head. Entropay and more recently pre-paid MC. Also lots of flights not taken. You can afford to book just in case you've nought else to do.

pauge2007

God!its the tight arses who get ryanair any way!A magazine in the shop won't break the bank balance!

Also do you not think your are getting what you pay for??????

rebel.ranter

I flew to Cork-Dublin every Wednesday for 2 years & most of them were €2 return plus a small fee on my entropay card at the time. I'd book up as many as I had the patience to do when the €2 offer was available. Sometimes I'd book a flight up on a Tuesday or down on a Thursday too just to give me options to do an overnight some weeks.

RachaelVO

I'm always checking for flights, mostly so I can get home. Best flights I got was all in 42 euro for 2 people Eindhoven to Dublin return. Thought it was great value! Although have to admit lots of people on this thread have done really well in getting a good ol deal!

Guill

No tax to liverpoool and back for 2 euro a few years back.

sbsquarepants

Guill wrote: »

No tax to liverpoool and back for 2 euro a few years back.

You were robbed mate - i done it for €1.98:D

Also flew 4 of us to cork, hired a car for the day and flew back that night for under €50. Brought the kids to fota - certainly beats driving there and back, cheaper too!

inforfun

A few years ago i managed to book a flight dublin - eindhoven and back for free.

summerskin

we flew Stansted to Kerry return for 6p for three of us four years ago. No taxes and charges. Sweet deal indeed.

Also I used to fly Shannon to Stansted every monday, coming back on the thursday for a year, and as i booked well in advance I don't think I ever paid more than €20 including charges etc.

The Stansted train cost more than the flight usually.

I was pretty impressed at getting from jersey through bristol to dublin at short notice for less than 100... one of the legs was ryanair, i think it must have been 40 at most

jos28

Got Dublin to Edinburgh for 1c each way 2 years ago. Total bill for 4 of us was 8c !! That included taxes and I used an entropay card to avoid the charges.

mickdw

Ive got return to uk for 2c including all charges. It was an offer price so no extra charges and also booked it at the time with visa electron which has zero booking fee.

gigino

PrincessLola wrote: »

I hate the way ryannair flights lack reading material, there are no magazines or anything..

buy a newspaper or magazine before you board ( esp if you are departing from UK rather than Ireland as they are much cheaper there ).;)

the groutch

I've done Dublin-Edinburgh for €6 return (no extra charges)

Lapin

sunflower27 wrote: »

Just booked a flight today to London in three weeks to see my best friend. Flying out of Dublin on Friday afternoon, back Monday afternoon -all in it came to 40e (12e of which is administration fee).

Was quite impressed with that.

€40 is actually quite a lot for Stansted. (Although you are going at a weekend so not too bad).

I went to London the weekend of the royal wedding for €33. (Luton)
Off to Oslo next week (ash cloud permitting) for €32. (Rygge)

However, when going to London its worth weighing in the cost of onward travel from airports like Stansted, Luton and Gatwick.

If an Aer Lingus or BMI flight to is advertised for around €30 more than Ryanair, it can still work out cheaper and just as quick to fly with them and get the tube from Heathrow.

I've had loads of those 1 cent and €1 flights other posters have mentioned. If you're flexible with your travel plans, you can get flights for next to nothing by booking reasonably well in advance and keeping an eye out for Ryanair's special offer deals. I often go on day trips to the races in the UK for less than €15.

Enjoy your weekend in London !

orchidsrpretty

Flew to Oslo for 1c a couple of years ago- Great bargin, doesn't seem to have deals like that anymore though.

emeraldstar

udonwannado wrote: »

Ferries get you to wales, how much would you then spend on petrol / train / bus to get to your destination, london, leeds, newcastle etc. How much luggage do you actually need? I don't need to check bags in if its only a weekend.
If you want reading material take some with you, thats one of the stupudest things i've ever heard. And when you say anything exactly what do you mean? Flights to the UK are normally no more than an hour. And as far as I know the longest you would spend on a ryanair flight is 3-3 1/2 hours. Are you telling me you want ryanair to provide you with entertainment for that time period? When in some cases the flight costs less than the trip to the airport!

Nope, a £32 Rail & Sail ticket is inclusive of the train to London.

dalyboy

I got to Berlin for €33, all in, last year. There were no taxes. Looks like those days are gone now as I just checked Ryanair today for the same month this year and the cheapest is €144 because of the crap tax charge. Looks like they have taken their eye off the ball.

steve9859

emeraldstar wrote: »

Nope, a £32 Rail & Sail ticket is inclusive of the train to London.

and it takes a soul destroying 8 hours door to door - a full days travel. So if you want 3 days in London you have to stay an extra night to get your 3 days in. therefore probably works out more expensive in total (or a shorter holiday)

Funkstard

Return to Stockholm for the princely sum of €7 two winters ago. It was excellent.

Aidric

Shannon to Biarritz for 30 quid return.

number10a

I got a lot of those 2c flights back in the tax-free days too. Once I booked so many of them, I forgot to got to Stockholm. But after all those years I'm going on Sunday for the princely sum of €27. Then on to Tallinn for €15 (bus to Riga) then Riga to Brussels for €29 and back to Dublin for €34. Great 'aul holiday for €105. It would have cost me about €150 to fly directly out to Brussels and back from there again, so I said I might as well try to go via somewhere else and it worked out cheaper and waaaaayyyyy better!

dalyboy

Sounds like a blast that trip you have planned. Shame we are getting screwed by Ryanair nowadays in regards to our Irish outbound flights to European destinations. Aerlingus is actually cheaper now in alot of their destinations . Good luck with your hols

coffeelover

Shannon to Mallorca-€35 return