Ryanair flight time change

corm500

Booked a campsite holiday in france for May. All was going well booked flights through Ryanair arriving to Nice airport for 2.30pm, which meant after picking up hire car etc, we would get to the campsite about 4.30pm. Flight back 2 weeks later leaving at 2.30pm arriving home a couple of hours later. Perfect.

I just got an email through from Ryanair telling me that the flight has been changed and now we are landing at 9pm in Nice and our return flight will be landing after 11pm. A disaster when you are travelling with a toddler. I had a look into changing the flight but it is now the only flight Ryanair has for that day. Aer lingus is too expensive as usual.

Question is....do you think they will add another flight that day? or should I just click the link to accept the flight change? How long can I hold off accepting before they cancel our flights?

Cheers

Strumms

In a word, no, they won't. The summer timetable has been published and in all my years flying that route several times a year, Ryanair to the best of my recollection have never had more then one return flight per day.

munchkin_utd

its not all that bad.
landing at 9pm is 8pm irish time, so it isnt all that late really. It probably also means youre leaving at 5 or 6, so again within the boundaries of what is do-able with a small kid, and if anything you might have him/her sleeping on the plane after all the excitment of the airport beforehand.

Coming back, indeed, you could potentially have a rough time with the wee one as by the time you board they'll be overtired and possibly throwing a wobbler. We did a late flight once from the continent to Ireland with our 2 and it was a disaster.
But, if the little one is busy all day then maybe they'll be asleep at the airport and there'll be no problems .
Best of luck anyhow

schemingbohemia

Calpol!

corm500

munchkin_utd wrote: »

its not all that bad.
landing at 9pm is 8pm irish time, so it isnt all that late really. It probably also means youre leaving at 5 or 6, so again within the boundaries of what is do-able with a small kid, and if anything you might have him/her sleeping on the plane after all the excitment of the airport beforehand.

Coming back, indeed, you could potentially have a rough time with the wee one as by the time you board they'll be overtired and possibly throwing a wobbler. We did a late flight once from the continent to Ireland with our 2 and it was a disaster.
But, if the little one is busy all day then maybe they'll be asleep at the airport and there'll be no problems .
Best of luck anyhow

I suppose the main problem is that we planning to do what we usually do, pick up the hire car, pick up the grocery shopping on the way. Get to the campsite for about 4.30, unpack and have an hour in the pool before it closes.

With the flight time change we won't arrive in Nice till 9pm by the time we pick up car and drive for an hour there won't be a supermarket open in the whole of the south of France. Plus we will not get to the campsite till around 11pm. It's all changed and not for the better. The changed the times last year too, but only by about a half hour. This time it causes problems.

LXFlyer

It's always worth bearing in mind when booking flights that flight schedules (in general) change on the weekends of the last Sunday in March and October.

Until relatively shortly before those dates, they can still change.

finbarrk

Will they give you a refund? If so go with Aer Lingus.

schemingbohemia

finbarrk wrote: »

Will they give you a refund? If so go with Aer Lingus.

Yes they will but the OPs problem is the cost of the Aer Lingus flights in comparison.

corm500

schemingbohemia wrote: »

Yes they will but the OPs problem is the cost of the Aer Lingus flights in comparison.

Plus the return flight is an evening flight too with Aer Lingus.

LXFlyer

corm500 wrote: »

Plus the return flight is an evening flight too with Aer Lingus.

Aer Lingus have a daily flight from Nice at 15:05 - surely that's not too late?

webpal

Could you fly to a nearby airport? You should also consider that you may not be able to drive into the campsite at that hour. You'd have to carry everything in from the gate. Ryanair have changed our flight in September from 7am to 7pm which is an absolute nightmare for us. They havent even contacted us yet but we've no choice we have to accept it.

Jamie2k9

Is flying to Marseille an option in terms of distance from the camp, should be cheaper than Nice with Aer Lingus.

Could you fly to a nearby airport? You should also consider that you may not be able to drive into the campsite at that hour. You'd have to carry everything in from the gate. Ryanair have changed our flight in September from 7am to 7pm which is an absolute nightmare for us. They havent even contacted us yet but we've no choice we have to accept it.

No other options with other carriers?

Genghis

Would you consider staying the first night in somewhere like Formule1 or Ibis, think there are options at Nice Airport?

Your room may cost about the same as campsite if you can amend that. Then you start fresh the next morning, pick up car, groceries etc and go to camp.

We had a late flight back from a campsite last year, we managed to negotiate a 3pm leave time just by charming our rep, there was no one coming in that day, we could even have stayed later.

thomasm

Same thing happened with us travelling in July this year with Ryanair to Nice. Specifically booked these flights as travelling with 3 young kids and times were great. Now have same times as OP and would love to change to get lingus earlier flight but about €350 more. Also pre paid car hire which would cost to cancel. Pain in the stones to be honest

tina1040

It'll be no where near the disaster you're thinking it will be.
Families travel to all parts of Europe and further for holidays with babies and toddlers. Kids don't have the same routine as at home anyway.

One year we arrived in Girona late. It took ages to get our rental car and get on the road and we didn't get to the campsite near Perpignan til 3am. The 3 kids slept in the car. I had a bag ready for the night so we could leave other bags in the car (couldn't drive to mobile at that time). We got sheets on the beds and the kids to bed. We then sat down and drank the welcome bottle of wine before getting some sleep ourselves.
It was lovely all waking up to sunshine and went to the camp shop for breakfast supplies.

As for arriving home we've had many flights arriving home late and the kids would end up sleeping in the taxi and then straight to bed.

Don't stress!!!!

Dayor Knight

Genghis wrote: »

Would you consider staying the first night in somewhere like Formule1 or Ibis, think there are options at Nice Airport?

Your room may cost about the same as campsite if you can amend that. Then you start fresh the next morning, pick up car, groceries etc and go to camp.

We had a late flight back from a campsite last year, we managed to negotiate a 3pm leave time just by charming our rep, there was no one coming in that day, we could even have stayed later.

That's a good idea. Stayed in one of these a couple of years ago. Just across road from Airport. Clean, functional budget hotel. Start fresh in the morning.