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Holiday ‘extras’ eating into holiday budget!

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Revolutioniser · 31/07/2025 21:44

First world problem, I know. And not a surprise either. But still annoying having to pay:

  • £22pp each way to get seats on the plane next to each other
  • £8.50pp each way for a bit of food on the 4hr flight
  • £8 per night AC for the hotel room
  • £8 per night tourist tax
  • £6 to drop us off at the airport for less than two minutes!

£300 of the holiday spends gone already!

Genuinely think it’s this kind of bloody thievery that makes people think the country is ‘broken’.

I don’t begrudge the tourist tax, to be fair. But the rest of it… ARGH!!!

OP posts:
Andbegin · 31/07/2025 21:51

You will get a right pile on with people telling you you don't need to pay for seats and food etc or if you can't afford the add ones you can't afford the holiday.

But I agree with you. There are now always overpriced add on's which never used to exist. Its very tedious.

If you check in together on the same booking you normally get sat together and obviously you can bring your own food on the plane.

Apprensen · 31/07/2025 21:51

Re food... Just go to boots and get a meal deal at the airport and get a meal for £5.50 or so. Or just take from home with you if that desperate. Re sitting together... Just don't sit together.
Re drop off charges... All airports I've used have had a free drop of f option.

Greencustardmonster · 31/07/2025 21:51

How does paying for AC in a presumably foreign hotel have anything to do with Britain being “broken”?

Most airports have a free drop off possibility somewhere, just further away via a bus from a proper car park.

Can you not just take snacks on the plane?

UsingAMansNameInAWomensWorld · 31/07/2025 21:49

Sounds a bit like you're booking budget and then complaining about the extras they charge to actually be able to be budget...

User748937744 · 31/07/2025 21:48

But yes, there are a lot of extra charges. I consider myself very good at minimising anything not essential so I have more money for the important things!

TheCurious0range · 31/07/2025 21:47

Why do you need food on a 4 hour flight?

Do you have young children? If not do you need to book seats? We often hire a car which sounds expensive compared to transfers but we then use it to do things rather than going on excursions which are always expensive compared to going to the same places yourselves

User748937744 · 31/07/2025 21:47

You don't need to buy food for a 4 hour flight.
You can choose free seats and sit together (I've just done this on RyanAir)
What sort of hotel charges for AC per night? That's so weird.