The Matt Faus Blog

The next morning we made an early start so that we could trek to our flight with RyanAir. For those of you who haven’t heard of this airline, it’s supposedly this awesome deal where you can get flights for 20E around Europe. However, that’s only the price they advertise and then when you’re checking out there are all kinds of hidden fees. It’s good for some locations (probably within the same country), but you’ve really got to do your research if you want to find the deals. We probably saved about 20E each on the flight from Paris to Barcelona, but it was quite a bit of a hassle and it took much longer than a more traditional flight would have taken.

The reason RyanAir can offer low prices on their flights is because they basically build their own airports in little towns outside of the bigger cities that everyone wants to go to. So to get from Paris to Barcelona, you actually have to go from Paris to Beauvais (an hour away), by bus, and then you fly from there to Girona, and then finally take another 70 minute bus ride into Barcelona proper. You can definitely save some money with RyanAir, as long as you don’t check any luggage, but just realize that, like so many other things in life, it sounds a little too good to be true.