Dublin arrivals to GoBus terminal in 20 mins, doable?

BhoscaCapall

Our flights gets in at 9.25pm and there is a bus at 9.45pm (next one is an hour later). Is this manageable (everyone has hand luggage all young and healthy hungover lads).

irish_goat

Very, get yourself a seat at the front of the plane (if possible) and leg it. Also if it's a Ryanair flight you'll probably arrive a few minutes earlier than that.

killbillvol2

Maybe, but unlikely. If you touch down on time it's another 10 minutes before you're off the plane so it depends on which gate you park at and the queues at passport control (usually worse at night).

30/70 at best if you land on schedule I'd say. You'd really need to land early.

mikedragon32

Why rush? Bunch of lads... Someone's bound to disappear, stop at the loo or god knows what else.. Relax, and if you get through fairy easily reward yourselves with a beer in the Failte bar!

BhoscaCapall

mikedragon32 wrote: »

Why rush? Bunch of lads... Someone's bound to disappear, stop at the loo or god knows what else.. Relax, and if you get through fairy easily reward yourselves with a beer in the Failte bar!

Uh we're not women/children. Hardly going to do something stupid like go to the toilet when we're rushing for a bus

After 2 days of solid drinking I don't know if we're gonna be all "oh hey we have to wait ages for a bus, let's spent 6 euro on a pint!" either.

How flexible are GoBus... say we were to book the 9.45 bus and end up having to get the next one, would it be ok?

CricketDude

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

Our flights gets in at 9.25pm and there is a bus at 9.45pm (next one is an hour later). Is this manageable (everyone has hand luggage all young and healthy hungover lads).

You'll be lucky to make the 10:45 bus.
Thats an awful time to be arriving. Wait til you see how long it takes you to get through passport control at that time.

mikedragon32

I organise lads weekend regularly, trust me, wimmins would be easier!

BhoscaCapall

CricketDude wrote: »

You'll be lucky to make the 10:45 bus.
Thats an awful time to be arriving. Wait til you see how long it takes you to get through passport control at that time.

Why would there be passport control for a flight from Glasgow to Dublin?

CricketDude

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

Why would there be passport control for a flight from Glasgow to Dublin?

It wont be your flight thats jamming it up. It will be three or four other flights
and you are stuck behind arriving at that time. Only one guy on checking passports. All go through the same gate and you cant bypass that queue. You have to go through the same bottleneck

Shane732

You can get through the airport in about 8 minutes from the second you step out of the plane.

I've been forced to do it on a number of occasions. You're walking but its like those marathon walkers...

dory

CricketDude wrote: »

It wont be your flight thats jamming it up. It will be three or four other flights
and you are stuck behind arriving at that time. Only one guy on checking passports. All go through the same gate and you cant bypass that queue. You have to go through the same bottleneck

Sounds like you're one of those people that never notice the signs and ends up standing in the long queue with the Japanese people while the other Irish folk are skipping through the EU queue. I always feel bad for those people...

CricketDude

dory wrote: »

Sounds like you're one of those people that never notice the signs and ends up standing in the long queue with the Japanese people while the other Irish folk are skipping through the EU queue. I always feel bad for those people...

Considering I fly back into Dublin airport at least once a week I think I know Dublin airport fairly well.
Im talking about the times in the evening when there is noone manning the EU queue. There is only one immigration person working.

richardjjd

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

Why would there be passport control for a flight from Glasgow to Dublin?

All passports are checked, no matter where you're coming from.

BhoscaCapall

richardjjd wrote: »

All passports are checked, no matter where you're coming from.

I fly Knock-Gatwick very regularly and passports are never checked on arrival. Why would they? You don't need a passport to travel between the UK and Ireland.

killbillvol2

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

I fly Knock-Gatwick very regularly and passports are never checked on arrival. Why would they? You don't need a passport to travel between the UK and Ireland.

It doesn't matter what happens in Knock or Gatwick - you asked about Dublin. In Dublin everyone goes through passport control and queues are worse at night.

BhoscaCapall

killbillvol2 wrote: »

It doesn't matter what happens in Knock or Gatwick - you asked about Dublin. In Dublin everyone goes through passport control and queues are worse at night.

Oh right. Fantastic. I hope whatever genius decided on that system is on a really great salary :rolleyes:

Can anyone let me know about GoBus/citylink being flexible at all? If we missed the bus and there was space on the next one, would we be let on?

schemingbohemia

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

Oh right. Fantastic. I hope whatever genius decided on that system is on a really great salary :rolleyes:

Can anyone let me know about GoBus/citylink being flexible at all? If we missed the bus and there was space on the next one, would we be let on?

You might get more info on Gobus/Citylink over on commuting & transport. I'll post the forum link here - you could do something dynamic yourself and ring Gobus/Citylink yourself and ask them?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=246

By the way does either Bus do a loop from Terminal 1 to Terminal 2? If it does you might catch them at Terminal 2, mates have caught up with Aircoach buses that they missed at T1 by legging it down to T2.

I would think your ire should be directed at An Garda Síochána regarding the design of passport control in the airport.

BhoscaCapall

schemingbohemia wrote: »

I would think your ire should be directed at An Garda Síochána regarding the design of passport control in the airport.

You mean they apply different laws at different airports?

schemingbohemia

now don't be stupid, I'm fairly sure the Garda would have been consulted when passport control in both terminals were being designed. The Garda decided they wanted all passengers both those within the common travel zone (UK & Ireland flights) and those outside to have to progress land side via passport control.

By the way just because it's called passport control doesn't mean you're obliged to show a passport if your journey didn't require it.

Lapin

I've never understood how I can walk off a flight in Gatwick and out the door by simply handing in my boarding pass.

And yet I have to queue at passport control in Dublin regardless of where I flew in from (including Galway).

Despite Gatwick being a far busier airport than Dublin ever was, with flights arriving from a much wider list of countries worldwide.

Something doesn't make sense.

Lapin

schemingbohemia wrote: »

By the way just because it's called passport control doesn't mean you're obliged to show a passport if your journey didn't require it.

Yeah. But try skipping the queue and see how far you get.

prettygurrly

the boyfriend landed from glasgow prestwick on the 9.25 flight. nearly positive it was after 9.45 when i met him at the arrivals so book yourself on to the later bus and just accept you may have to wait a little while. will save you sweating!

prettygurrly

also should have said, don't citylink and go bus go at different times on the hour? go bus is quarter to and the citylink is quarter after? just occurred to me as i was dropping my friend to get a bus from drogheda to the airport to pick them up and if she had chosen citylink as her bus service to galway then she wouldn't have had to wait around as the drogheda bus got in in time for the quarter past.

leggit

If it's ryanair you'll land earlier and shouldn't have a problem. If not then you probably still have a good chance at making it. Too many variables to consider like passport control, people stopping for the toilet, etc....

Good luck!

schemingbohemia

Lapin wrote: »

Yeah. But try skipping the queue and see how far you get.

I never suggested anything of the sort! You don't have to show a PASSPORT is what I stated :rolleyes:

Lapin

schemingbohemia wrote: »

I never suggested anything of the sort! You don't have to show a PASSPORT is what I stated :rolleyes:

So you don't skip the queue ?

You queue up to not show your passport.

Hardly a time saving tip is it ?

schemingbohemia

I never said it would save time! Do you have difficulty understanding what I've written?

The OP was banging on about Dublin Airport being different to the bustling airport in Knock I was pointing out that everyone has to go through Passport control even if you don't need to show a passport, if you're travelling in the common travel area any ID or none will suffice though if you don't have any you will end up talking to the Garda for a lot longer.

Do you understand now?

mikedragon32

Lapin and SB, play nice or don't bother posting!

Lapin

I understand the the OP wanted to know if it is possible to get from plane to bus in 20 mins and simply suggested that if Dublin had a similar method of vetting passengers to somewhere like Gatwick, he might have a chance.

But as things stand in Dublin (where everyone has to queue at passport control, regardless of what ID they have) I would suggest he has little chance of making that 9.45 bus.

mikedragon32

I think we'd all agree it's a major PITA that you have to do passport control for any arrival to DUB.

BhoscaCapall

schemingbohemia wrote: »

The OP was banging on about Dublin Airport being different to the bustling airport in Knock

Literally one post, barely over 1 line long. Hardly "banging on" about it, [SNIP].

mikedragon32

User infracted. OP, I've already addressed the post you quoted. Any more crap like this will result in a ban.

amacachi

I wouldn't be trying to make the earlier bus, would have to be a proper mad dash to get there once you're through passport control etc.

MOH

From the Gobus T+Cs:

The Following conditions apply to the issue of e-Tickets:
You must print your Order Confirmation number to board the coach. You must be at your departure point 15 minutes prior to departure to guarantee your reservation.Tickets are only valid for travel on the selected journey date and time.....The Company may give your seat to another passenger if you arrive later than the scheduled check in time, in which case you will be considered to have missed the service. The Company shall not be liable for any loss in such circumstances.

Aside from that, you'd need to be a bit lucky to make it in 20 mins. If you come in at one of those stands at the far end of terminal one, you'd be pushed to make it even without a queue at immigration. And there's a couple of times I've spend nearly 20 minutes at immigration alone.

I'd definitely suggest getting a later one.

schemingbohemia

Just to post back with my own experience at the weekend. Made it from plane to aircoach stop at Terminal 1 in 10 minutes! Couldn't believe it, now I was walking quickly but not legging it, our plane (Ryanair from Manchester) was parked near enough to passport control (we left from gate 217, think our plane back was close enough to there). There was no queue at passport control at all, thankfully as only two Garda on duty, so straight through and out to bus stop where I was actually early for the bus.

Granted this was arriving at 445pm on a Sunday so your mileage may vary but it can be done. I probably wouldn't risk it with a pre-paid ticket myself though.

BhoscaCapall

I made it from the plane to the bus at a leisurely pace, including a stop at the toilet, and still had over 5 mins to spare. Passport control involved literally zero queuing. Thanks for the helpful advice :rolleyes:

schemingbohemia

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

I made it from the plane to the bus at a leisurely pace, including a stop at the toilet, and still had over 5 mins to spare. Passport control involved literally zero queuing. Thanks for the helpful advice :rolleyes:

This was your first flight into Dublin in how long? You ask for advice, it was given with good intentions by people on here who fly regularly and who regularly get stuck at passport control due to being at the mercy of how many Garda are on duty and how many flights are coming in at the same time and you come back to give stick? :rolleyes:

BhoscaCapall

It's not the first time I've been given misinformation on here by people who then got arsey when I questioned the advice they gave (advice which later turned out to be erroneous), so I just figured I'd break the mould and post something accurate and helpful

schemingbohemia

No one would be able to guarantee any advice in advance, everyone was giving advice based on their experience to date.

You were lucky, people didn't give erroneous advice none of us are able to predict the future and to label people as being arsey when they're giving advice is just ignorant.

Lapin

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

It's not the first time I've been given misinformation on here by people who then got arsey when I questioned the advice they gave (advice which later turned out to be erroneous), so I just figured I'd break the mould and post something accurate and helpful

Why do you seek the advice of others if your intention is simply to question the response they give?

Are you just out to waste peoples time?

Or do you lack the intellegence to comprehend that no two people will have a similar travel experience and thus, there will be many different answers to a question like the one you posed. It requires a little judgement on your part to weigh up the advice freely given by others and make your own mind up. If you choose to go along with the experience of one poster over all the others feel free do do so.

Either way I won't waste my time replying to any further queries you may have.

mikedragon32

Thread closed. BhoscaCapaill given a holiday from the forum.