Ryanair - New reserved seating structure(s)

I'll always move to let a mum/dad and child sit together. Stressful enough flying with little ones without me adding to it. Most times its only an up and down flight so the inconvenience is minimal.

Keeping the 3 year old entertained shouldn't be too hard. Don't take out all the surprises at once. Look at the in flight menu and choose your bit of a snack. Sticker books, crayons and pads, phone games, playing cards etc will all help keep them occupied.

Again for the last year or two all seating is allocated. Being early in the airport will make absolutely no difference. You can either let Ryanair pick you seats when you are doing check in or you can do it yourself and pay for it.

kingcharles82 wrote: »

Quick question does anyone know if you can still drop bags the previous evening at the bag drop for early morning flights,it saved us some time last summer heading away and with ryanair planes all departing from the same area of the airport it was well needed,security and bag search areas are time delaying especially with small children, dropping the bags the night before was a great help,can't seem to find any info on it on the ryanair site so maybe it was only a trial basis last summer

Ryanair now have automatic bag drop its very quick never anybody at it weigh it yourself put on the sticker and away she goes

kingshankly wrote: »

Ryanair now have automatic bag drop its very quick never anybody at it weigh it yourself put on the sticker and away she goes

Just to note if you've a buggy you can't use those automatic bag drops and have to queue for the check in desks.

kingshankly wrote: »

Ignorance on your part every one knows Ryanair designate seats but you arnt guaranteed to get seats together unless you pay and select your own

Yes because they will put kids separately so there can be delays when the plane needs to take off because of rearranging passengers. The most efficient aircarrier in Europe will intentionally make work for themselves. So how many times were you and your wife kicked of your seats to accommodate a family with kids?

@kingcharles82

You can. We did it in April for a 7.20am flight. You'll get an email after you've done your on-line check-in. Can only be done after 8pm. You have to have all boarding passes and passports of those bags being checked in. And you have to hang around for 10/15 minutes after incase there's any problems.

I don't know, but I think there could be different circumstances to every case. We have 2 small kids, 3 and 5 yo, and always paid extra for the seats to be assigned together on Ryanair flights. Lately I started doubting our choice and in future I don't think we ll be paying the extra fee, it does add up for 4 people. Yes, we ll try to check in as soon as possible and etc. I dont expect people who paid premium for their seats to move but what's the longest Ryanair flight? 5 hours probably? So why is it such a big deal to move? Especially if you didn't pay for the specific seat and I am obviously not talking about breaking families with kids or elderly people. If I was traveling on my own - I have absolutely no problem moving my seat. By no means I expect any preferential treatment just because we have kids, and we ll gladly sit 2+2 or 1+2+1.
We are traveling with Aerlingus from San Francisco to Dublin later this month and at the time of booking there was no 4 seats left together or even 2 and 2, there was few singles scattered around the plane and thats 11 hours flight, what would be your suggestion?
"It was so ridiculous - parents like this need to organise themselves better. I felt bad for the crew on this occasion."(Parchmet)
Well, in our particular case now, we couldn't organise ourselves better and you shouldn't be feeling bad for the crew, did you offer to move your seat? How fast everyone forgot racing to Ryanair flight with no assigned sitting?

Is it more than 7 days to the flight? Did your friends pay for allocated seating?

I'm flying to Dublin using Ryanair for the first time next month. Their website is prompting me to pre-book my seats, at a cost of course. I just wondered if anyone has experience of Ryanair and could advise me whether I should pay extra for my seat or take pot luck at the airport?