Help me pack ten days in ryan air under Seat

Washing your knickers for less than a minute in the shower with you absolutely is grim and not properly washing them at all.

And people saying just pay for a cabin bag its not that much. I was pricing up a 4 day trip to Alicante last night. Both flights were less than £50 and they wanted £55 ish per flight to add a cabin bag!! Why would I more than double the cost of my flights when I can get stuff in a small underseat bag?

And the underseat bag for Ryanair is really tiny. We measured our normal everyday rucksacks and every one of them was too wide or deep for the Ryanair underseat dimensions.

Baffled about the snobbishness for hand washing though. I wonder if this is not a skill you were taught? Washing is just soap, water, agitation, rinsing. A washing machine at 30 or 40 degrees doesn't do anything magical that can't be done by hand. The long wash times these days are mainly because they are trying to achieve the same level of cleanliness and rinsing using a fraction of the amount of water they used to.

If you'd rather pay for bags that's totally up to you, but handwashing is not a dirty habit or an overwhelming task for everyone.

Again, people, we’re not talking about CABIN bags !

Of course you can go for a mini break/hot holiday with a small cabin suitcase that does not need to be put in hold.

What some posters are saying is that they can fit everything in the free under seat bag, which involves all the knicker (lack of) washing and secreting t-shirts in neck pillows etc and no additional handbag.

How much extra space can it really take to just have enough underwear for your trip?

Easy-peasy. What you want is wool (no, hear me out). You need a couple of lightweight merino wool dresses. They pack very well, they're light and fold thin, crucially they keep you COOL in heat and warm in the cold, they resist odour to a supernatural degree and you can spot clean them as necessary (washing up liquid works well for this). Have a look for Wool& merino dresses - they have an EU site where they can be sent to you really fast, and there are always some on Vinted. They're not cheap but they last very well. They're something of a cult. They run a '100 Day Dress Challenge' where you wear one of their dresses 100 days straight (spot cleaning, overnight washing every so often, they dry fast) and if you want, dress it up with accessories, different cardigans, different ways of wearing it, etc. At the end of the 100 days you get a Euro 100 voucher and buy another one.
https://eu.wooland.com

The Wool& forums on Facebook are chock-full of women packing for short and longer breaks and taking very little with them because their travel capsule is based around 2 or 3 dresses. When I went to Greece for 5 days a few years back I took two of my Wool& dresses (ok and one lightweight cotton maxi dress) and was fine. Same in Italy, come to think of it. It allows me to pack very lightly and save on hold baggage rates, which can in some cases double the cost of a bargain ticket.

Other than that, just pare it down. You can buy toiletries there and then just leave them behind. Pare down your make-up if you use it. Look at your shoes and then ask yourself do you REALLY need 4 pairs? Wear the heaviest ones to travel, obviously. Sandals to walk miles in should be prioritised over pretty ones but pretty ones are often fairly light and insubstantial. Kindle rather than books.

so somewhere hot? What sort of trip? If you’ll be somewhere central I’d only bring clothes and buy all my toiletries there. You might get close to spending the same as you would to just bring a proper bag on board though.

the under seat bag is tiny. I use it for electronics and toiletries usually, all my clothes in the 10kg bag.

Just been to the canaries for 1 week. 5 summer dresses, pair sandals, swimsuit, 2 sarongs, nightshirt, 2 pairs of pants, bra- roll items and put in compression packing cube. Kindle, straighteners, decanted make up, some essential decanted toiletries. Small cross body bag that could fit in underseat bag if needed but just wore it under my cardigan. Travelled in dress, trainers and cardigan. Bought suncream, shampoo, conditioner, deo and shower gel when there. Liberating! We holiday at lot and it’s the trade off to keep price low.

And knickers and pyjamas! I went to France last week admittedly to my parents house so there was a washing machine but I did a week with one pair of shorts, four vest tops, five pairs of knickers l, one oair of light PJ's and two bras. I wore trousers and a light jacket to the airport and honestly I never missed anything. Actually I came back with one top unworn. It's also great because when you get back you have next to nothing to wash.

Ahhhh!! You are my kind of person. I actually don't even fill mine. I love travelling with next to nothing. So freeing. So..... shampoo, toothpaste, etc...dont bring them. Buy a bottle of all that stuff when you get there. It's going to cost max £15 and it's liquids and a pain. Bring a toothbrush and that's it. Clothes for six days, as you said. It's hot. You need two pairs of shorts and six thin tops. At night you need three lightweight pretty dresses. Bring a pair of cute sandals and wear a pair of trainers to the airport. On the day wear a pair of haremstyle trousers, a light jacket and another top, whichever is the bulkeist you wan to bring. Done.

Yes, I have done it onryanair, bit of a squeeze but manageable. Didn’t take jeans as was warm, so PP asking for location are right.

1 x bikini
1 x sandals
2 x dresses
1 x shorts
2 vests
2 tshirts
toiletries
charger
Underwear

then wash stuff when there

I've done a week abroad easily with an overhead cabin bag with Ryanair and with Easyjet, but I struggled with an underseat bag for a trip to Paris for three nights. I think you'd have to buy toiletries at the airport after security but at those prices it'll probably be cheaper to pay for luggage

Edited for typo!

Tie up your hair? With knickers? Am I missing something?

Toothbrush can double up as a hairbrush. Can also be used for scrubbing clothes when washing them.

Tragically, I’m not completely sure you’re taking the piss here.

I have done this twice, for travel to Spain in summer. And I also took a load of drawing stuff. And I took too many clothes, I didn’t wear some items at all! The non clothes items are harder as can’t be squished. I cheated a bit as had an extra handbag which you aren’t allowed but it’s dead easy to get away with - put cardi over it or put inside a big carrier from a shop airside. This made it possible for me to fit in a load of sketching gear and 2 novels as well as clothes. I think it’s perfectly possible to do within the rules if you don’t have a sketching hobby to accommodate, if travelling in summer that is so clothes all smaller, I’m not so sure it’s workable in winter. For those suggesting this is joyless and mean, I have to say I think you are wrong as it’s so much easier to move about when you don’t have a large bag. I was going to 2 locations and using public transport on the trips I took, all of us not having big bags made this so much easier. Stuff is a millstone, less is more

I recently did this for 3 nights but ended up with a pair of shoes and a couple of tops I didn’t wear, plus a mini hairdryer I didn’t need so I do think it can be done!
I bought a cabin max bag from Amazon which was the exact Ryanair dimensions and I was impressed how much it fit in and how easily it went under the seat!

It sounds utterly joyless to me! Just get a bigger bag!

YABVU travelling by Ryanair - disgusting airline.

if you want to me uncomfortable and not have enough changes of clothes that’s your problem.

but everyone who buys a ticket on Ryanair, then is surprised that Ryanair is shut, is part of the problem.

HTH.

These are my thoughts as well. Sounds totally miserable

NO ONE NEEDS A ONE WAY FLIGHT.
You heard them. Lol.

I've just done 5 Ryanair flights with the little wheelie case from Primark/Penneys. My trips are max 4 days and it's perfect. I've saved a few hundred quid. A squishy hand bag you can shove in the case before security is needed.

Why?

Just pay for a bag to go in the hold.

Hang your stuff in the sunlight

TSA might have a fit if someone tried to take an autoclave through. I used to get some looks and questions when I flew back from transports with medical supplies including bristojets with large needles.

I haven't read the full thread so this might have been mentioned - 'vacuum' bags that you squeeze the air out of rather than need a vacuum cleaner. Slightly less effective as more air remains but still good. Amazon sell a multi pack of them.

Note: pack a spare empty one in case of a split and don't use every inch of the case - keep a little room for less organised packing on the way back.

Not affiliated with this product. It's the ones I had but others are available:

Not so. We fly Ryanair several times a year (the flight times suit us better than the only alternative from our nearest airport) and we never pay more than £50 a head return. We travel light by choice, bring snacks if we think we’ll need them, drink water to hydrate.

I’m happy not to have perks I don’t want included in my ticket price, I’d rather put my money into the local economy and get a decent cup of coffee and fresh food at my destination.

Do a boots click and collect airside for all your toiletries, buy a boots bag for life and put them in there, then you are allowed to take that on board as well as your underseat bag. I hide my small cross body bag underneath the toiletries as you technically are only allowed one bag. Or hide the cross body bag under your jacket by shortening the strap. Vacuum anything that won’t crease, knickers, pyjamas, socks, swimwear. SHEIN bags work well if you shop there and then I secure them with elastic bands to make them even smaller. They never weigh the underseat bag.
Echo other posters saying the cabin max bags are great