Ryanair baggage allowance query

[zenie]

Has anyone taken tents or sleeping bags on Ryanair flights and how did you get on?

I heard something about put it all in one massive bag as opposed to seperates?

Also, with the hand luggage thing am I right in thinking they now measure your hand luggage bag?

Too much stuff to take :o

[newbie]

yes they measure and weigh hand luggage, details on the website though curiously they seem to have different ideas at different airports.

I've seen them provide a massive bag at the checkin for a rucksack with bags, mats and other stuff hanging off it.

[equationgirl]

I've flown ryanair on numerous occasions and not once have I had my hand baggage measured.

[Skim]

Also, with the hand luggage thing am I right in thinking they now measure your hand luggage bag?

Yes, they've got a kind of cage you put your luggage into... if it doesn't fit, you can't take it as hand luggage.

I took my record bag to Italy and it just fitted...

I wouldn't expect any decent answers from Ryanair's customer service though :mad:

[equationgirl]

That's if a) you can find the number for them and b) get through to them.

[newbie]

I've flown ryanair on numerous occasions and not once have I had my hand baggage measured.

They get strictwer every time I use them. They weighed the carryon bags and looked at them carefully at the checkin t'other day and looked again at the entrance to the departure lounge. There was someone at the front holding up the queue moving stuff from one bag to another, though I wasn't close enough to hear why... the embarrassment, all of us staring hard at the back of her head!

[pinkmonkey]

They don't like multiple bags for check in on any airline now, so yes, put it all in one bag if you are checking it in. Expect to be charged.

Have you checked the rules on their website? The whole baggage thing has got ridiculous IMO.

Some tips from me, on reducing your luggage, coz I noes about teh luggage.

Toiletries - look for multipurpose tings. I buy really big cheap tubs of facial moisturiser from the £1 shop and use it as body and face moisturiser. Buy shower gel that is suitable for washing your hair too (Simple does some), or buy a Lush Shampoo bar and use it as soap too, or buy a facial cleansing bar and use it for your body too. We're thinking multipurpose.

Microfibre towels are really light, pack really small and wash and dry really quickly. Lidl sometimes sell these, otherwise try camping shops.

Clothing: I never take more than four changes of clothes anywhere I go. Take travelwash, or some liquid capsules or washing tablets. Get one of those elastic washing lines from a camping shop.

I can manage for several weeks living out of a small backpack this way.

[Skim]

That's if a) you can find the number for them and b) get through to them.


I fucking hate Ryanair. To quote from Wikipedia:


Michael O'Leary has a somewhat fiery reputation among both his competitors in the airline industry and the regulators. He often comes across as arrogant and unpleasant and has on numerous occasions stooped to gratuitous rudeness and foul language in his public statements [7] [8] [9] [10] His no-nonsense management style, extreme cost-cutting and meanness towards staff [11], provocative advertising [12] and his deliberate targeting and scathing criticisms of competitors, airport authorities, governments, and unions have become a hallmark. Recently he was forced to retract a claim that Ryanair had cut emissions of carbon dioxide by half over the past five years [13]. O'Leary has been reported to have impersonated a journalist in an attempt to find out what information an airport authority had passed on to a newspaper following a safety incident on a Ryanair flight [14]

In 2004 he purchased a hackney plate for his Mercedes-Benz to enable it to be classified as a taxi so that he could legally make use of Dublin's bus lanes to speed his car journeys around the city [15]. A press report suggested that he was stopped driving his own taxi. In 2005 the transport minister of the Republic of Ireland expressed concern at this abuse by O'Leary and others. [16] [17]

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I wouldn't expect any decent answers from Ryanair's customer service though :mad:


Ryanair have a customer service department? :eek:

[eoin_k]

When I last flew with them the weight limit on the way BACK was LOWER than on the way OUT.

We also had to pay to take our lugage OUT and again to take it BACK.

FFS!

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Ryanair have a customer service department? :eek:


I think it's just a nasty rumour to get you wound up :mad:

[zoltan]

Ryanair scum

take what you have to in the right sized hand luggage and fill your overcoat pockets with anything that wont go in the bag.

they dont even have seat pockets on their newish planes, as it saves having to clean them out on the 20 minutes turn around

they treat their staff like shite

Ifr you dont bother to take a flight or miss it , they pocket the tax thst they have not paid the the exchequer - FFS, even Easyjet replied within an hour of me emailing them and confirmed that unused tax would be paid into the bank withi a week - and they were right .Ryanair have a fax number in Dublin or a premium rate phone number to call and you wont get anyhing back at the end o it.



scum

[PieEye]

they'll charge you a tenner per bag per leg if you don't book them in advance

[pinkmonkey]

they'll charge you another tenner to breathe too. (Or something).