Longest distance day trip from Dublin for a passenger

Fred Swanson

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Noxegon

I've gone to Barcelona for the day. Not on the same aircraft both ways though.

Fred Swanson

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robyntmorton

Fred Swanson wrote: »

We have a start. Any advance on Barcelona?

I did an Alicante day trip once on the same plane. JetGreen (op by Icelandair) on their first day of operations. They lasted a week. Check in in ALC was closed when we got there (the message about returning pax wasn’t relayed down the line) but we got it sorted out.

It was funny that on the outbound a Jet Green crew and an Icelandair crew both tried to work the cabin, with a meal service from the front, and a bar service from the back. They refused to talk to each other, blocked each other in the middle, and refused to move. (On the return the Icelandic crew sat down in the many empty seats and let the Irish get on with it)

knucklehead6

Damn. Was gonna mention the Concorde Cannonball until i saw Dublin.

Fred Swanson

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Boxcar_Willie

I went on the 9am flight to Newark once , arrived there at 11.45am , went across to Jersey Gardens , made some purchases and returned on the evening flight arriving back into Dublin at 7am the next morning . Not exactly a day-trip but got to the US and back in 22 hours and the savings I made on my purchases covered the cost of the flight.

Chris_5339762

I've looked into this a little but decided to do it without playing around with timezones.

The best you could do back then was...

Dublin - Lanzarote with Ryanair, early flight.

Get the bus into Arecife, go for a walk, have a drink and a meal.

Lanzarote - Dublin with Aer Lingus, late flight gets in around 11pm.

Done!

Schedules and carrier may have changed, but I believe thats the best you could do.

Technically you could do LAX and SFO in a day just

Fred Swanson

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Boxcar_Willie

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105 mins on the ground at LAX and yes if pre-cleared in Dublin you arrive as a domestic passenger so just walk up the airbridge , grab a snack and board again at the same gate. You would already have been TSA screened at Dublin.

Fred Swanson

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goingnowhere

Should be possible at all EI US destinations to do a turnaround.

For BOS, JFK, ORD, SFO it certainly works

Now for some real fun, ask the check in agent to check you in for the return while in Dublin...

The poor CBP staff will be confused, so 'mileage run'

Almost went to New York for lunch once...

Van.Bosch

I suppose I took the question to mean that you would actually spend some time somewhere, if so I’d say the Canary island example above would be hard to beat.

Boxcar_Willie

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Correct and that applies to all pre-cleared flights from Dublin.

Fred Swanson

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goingnowhere

I've managed depart Dublin, have mid morning coffee in Brussels, have lunch in Paris, climb the Efflel tower, have a meal in London and still be back home in Dublin by 11pm

In all cases I left the airport for the city centre...

Fred Swanson

Fred Swanson wrote: »

Would you enough time to get back around the whole check in/security apparatus before the AC leaves again?

I’d imagine you could and still have time for a three course meal.

knucklehead6

Fred Swanson wrote: »

Do explain. I am interested.

People were able todo the Concorde Cannonball - leave LHR at 1030, get to JFK at 0920. Do the days business . Leave JFK at 1325 arrive LHR at 2225 (ish).

Chris_5339762

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I very nearly pulled the trigger on it once, you have to use two carriers and it is a bit indulgent on the pricing side.

You'd get about 3 - 4 hours in Arecife (theres a bus from the airport) for 8 hours of flying.

The only reason I looked into it was a few friends of mine day-tripped Frankfurt and I wanted to do better than them.

Edit; Might be one to consider if a few tier points are needed and I'm sick of going to London.

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scudzilla

Done Madrid before, left Dublin at around 06:00 (not 100% sure i can remember correct times), got into Madrid at around 09:30 madrid time, straight to my Aunties bar, seen the family, went to see their new gaff just outside, she took me to the tobacconist where i crammed me case full and got the 20:00 flight back.

Bolloxed we were

Van.Bosch

goingnowhere wrote: »

I've managed depart Dublin, have mid morning coffee in Brussels, have lunch in Paris, climb the Efflel tower, have a meal in London and still be back home in Dublin by 11pm

In all cases I left the airport for the city centre...

That’s class, would you have a rough idea of the timings?

Ash.J.Williams

That beardy celtic tiger property tycoon would have a few great stories for this thread

Noxegon

If you'll forgive a little thread drift, I *have* travelled to South Africa for a three day weekend. Flew after work on Thursday, in country Fri/Sat/Sun, went straight from airport to work on Monday morning. I was younger then.

goingnowhere

Van.Bosch wrote: »

That’s class, would you have a rough idea of the timings?

0640 DUB BRU with EI
1130 train from Brussels Midi to Paris Nord
1600 train from Paris Nord to St Pancras
2045 LHR DUB with EI

Impossible to fly if you want to go downtown

I've done day trips to London, Paris, Dusseldorf, Berlin. Also managed to sit on the same seat on the same aircraft next sector. Done Dublin - London LGW - city for meeting - LCY - AMS for dinner

With a bit of planning you can cover a lot of ground very quickly in central Europe

Van.Bosch

goingnowhere wrote: »

0640 DUB BRU with EI
1130 train from Brussels Midi to Paris Nord
1600 train from Paris Nord to St Pancras
2045 LHR DUB with EI

Impossible to fly if you want to go downtown

I've done day trips to London, Paris, Dusseldorf, Berlin. Also managed to sit on the same seat on the same aircraft next sector. Done Dublin - London LGW - city for meeting - LCY - AMS for dinner

With a bit of planning you can cover a lot of ground very quickly in central Europe

About an hour to wander in each city?

Chris_5339762

goingnowhere wrote: »

0640 DUB BRU with EI
1130 train from Brussels Midi to Paris Nord
1600 train from Paris Nord to St Pancras
2045 LHR DUB with EI

All looks good but Pancras to Heathrow must have been a rotter at that stage. Probably a late Ryanair from Stansted would have been more time efficient, but Stansted is awful.

I've done plenty of daytrips to the UK over the years... Liverpool, Manchester, Brighton, London. I found London the tough one as the transport into the city takes so long. My fav was always Brighton, you used to get about 10 - 11 hours in Brighton for about a €40 daytrip

L1011

Done the Brighton one for football many times. If you're lucky with the bus in LGW you can be on the train sub 15mins after landing

LXFlyer

Chris_5339762 wrote: »

All looks good but Pancras to Heathrow must have been a rotter at that stage. Probably a late Ryanair from Stansted would have been more time efficient, but Stansted is awful.

I've done plenty of daytrips to the UK over the years... Liverpool, Manchester, Brighton, London. I found London the tough one as the transport into the city takes so long. My fav was always Brighton, you used to get about 10 - 11 hours in Brighton for about a €40 daytrip

St Pancras to LHR would be simple.

With handbaggage only, and the close proximity of EI gates to security at LHR T2, it wouldn’t be too bad. Arriving into St Pancras at 17:30ish you would have time to grab a quick meal and get the Heathrow Express at 19:25 from Paddington and comfortably make that flight.

Chris_5339762

Oh of course, Express or Connect. I'd use Piccadilly Line for savings... which would be a sickener of a trip at that time of night.

useless

I did DUB-WAW in a day last year. Early direct flight with EI, arrived around 0930, a days work then a BA flight around 1700 to LHR to connect with the last EI flight to Dublin

munchkin_utd

The new Ryanair timings for Dublin-Munich now have a 6.10am in the morning, arriving at 9.40am local time and the evening is 9.10pm local time getting back to Ireland for 10.40pm.

Similar to lads heading to England for a Premier League day trip, that would mean a Bundesliga Saturday afternoon 3.30pm kick off for Bayern Munich would also be comfortably doable as a day trip

goingnowhere

Munich sucks though as its 40 minutes by train to get downtown (major engineering works going to mess that up between now and September) and the security/passport queue in T1 MUC can vary from 0 to 90 minutes depending on its mood

Boxcar_Willie

goingnowhere wrote: »

Munich sucks though as its 40 minutes by train to get downtown (major engineering works going to mess that up between now and September) and the security/passport queue in T1 MUC can vary from 0 to 90 minutes depending on its mood

I agree , passport control in T1 is a shambles , they've now installed self-service gates which are slow enough but I was travelling with my 15 year old son to a game in the Allianz Arena so had to queue up for a manual check in the Non EU queue , total shambles.
At least I now know that when travelling to MUC with Ryanair the trick to get to the top of the passport control queue is to get seated towards the front of the aircraft and hop on the 1st bus to the terminal , standing near the rear right hand door as this is opened first.

goingnowhere

Arrival is actually fine since the gates went in two years ago. Once you are quick to get there before the herd.

Coming back especially in the morning it can be painful, I've taken 75 minutes to get through passport + security, I got wise and came 10 minutes earlier the next time and was through in 40 minutes.

The train is actually 45 minutes... The route via Neufahrn will be closed over the Summer so it will get ugly on the train as everyone will have to go via Ost Bahnhof

VG31

Is Terminal 2 at Munich any better for security/passport queue times?

Boxcar_Willie

VG31 wrote: »

Is Terminal 2 at Munich any better for security/passport queue times?

Of the three carriers on the DUB - MUC route , only Lufthansa use T2. Last time I used it I was more or less straight through , although this can all depend on the volume of passengers arriving at same time as you.

What Username Guidelines

Technically not a day trip total, but a few years back for work I did DUB-LHR-SIN, leaving DUB 06:30 Sunday, arriving Monday 06:05 local, day in the office, dinner and drinks in the Marina Bay Sands and midnight departure SIN-LHR-DUB, landed back in Dublin 09:10 Tuesday.

I wasnt right for about a month after it

Chris_5339762

Amsterdam is a GREAT one for a day trip. Both AL, Ryanair and KLM all serving it. 15 minutes by train to the city center, the only trouble I had was getting the railway ticket did not seem as straightforward as it could have been.

Did eight hours in Amsterdam, plenty of food and drink and a lot of walking. Nabbed it for a €20 daytrip when Ryanair launched the route

Noxegon

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

Technically not a day trip total, but a few years back for work I did DUB-LHR-SIN, leaving DUB 06:30 Sunday, arriving Monday 06:05 local, day in the office, dinner and drinks in the Marina Bay Sands and midnight departure SIN-LHR-DUB, landed back in Dublin 09:10 Tuesday.

Yegads.

I do regular DUB-DXB-SIN-DXB-DUB runs stretched over a week, and those destroy me.

I bow to you, sir.

What Username Guidelines

Noxegon wrote: »

Yegads.

I do regular DUB-DXB-SIN-DXB-DUB runs stretched over a week, and those destroy me.

I bow to you, sir.

Its a mad route, trip out feels like a week, return feels like minutes with the time difference.

All economy too, but I will admit on the 777 LHR-SIN I had two seats free next to mine, so got a decent kip in

It was for a pitch and we (un)fortunately won the contract, which just meant more trips out there which were thankfully longer

goingnowhere

Dublin Berlin is pretty good, 0645 out, 2205 back with Aer Lingus.

I've done

DUB-JFK-SEA 2 days SEA-CLT-BWI (red eye painful)
SFX-DUB overnight DUB-JFK-PDX 1 day PDX-MEM-TPA 2 day TPA-MCO (office TA wanted TPA-IAD-MCO) I got the train...

And for bonus marks, a SFX DUB cabin crew member was also operating the DUB-JFK..

ozzy jr

Kinda falls into this category but I did a day trip from Dublin to Tehran back in 2001 for the World Cup play off. Can't remember the exact times, but it was a very long day, probably even passed the 24 hour mark.

x567

Another slightly off-topic one, but a few years ago I did a 'day trip' to LA from LHR; first BA flight out, two hour meeting in LA not too far from LAX and then the last VS flight of the day back to LHR, landing the next afternoon. Sorted out the body clock-turmoil by changing planes at LHR and on to Paris for a FRAvIRE rugby weekend..!

jjbrien

Did LGW JFK on Norwegian last year out on the 8am flight ex LGW into jFK just after 10am then back on the 23:00 JFK LGW flight. Was also wrecked but might do it now with Nowegian ex Dublin into SWF