Will Ryanair cover accommodation after my daughter's flight cancellation in France?

[Preciousparents]

My 18 year old daughter is currently stuck at an airport in France as her flight was cancelled whilst she was there. She has been rerouted but the new flight is not untill Tuesday. The airline is RyanAir. Will they pay for accomodation for her and if so do we need to book this or will they sort it? She is by herself as her friends have opted to pay £700 for new flights so she is understandably a bit overwhelmed and scared.

Any advice from anyone who has experienced this is much appreciated please.

also, I know £700 is a huge amount of money but I would ensure I had the means to pay this in an event such as this. I know she’s 18 but it’s still young. Perhaps I’m on my own on that.

She should keep receipts of everything consumed between now and landing back into her original destination and submit via the website.

So you do have the money, youd just have preferred to leave her stuck alone. Wow

Good job Ryan Air are more sympathetic than you.

Well yes this was my thought. You do say you have it - if it was my daughter, no matter her age, if she needs it she gets it. I certainly wouldn’t have been leaving her there.

This is why we always book a package so we someone else has responsibility for us. We had this situation and Tui put us in a hotel and paid for five more days.

Great news OP X

I’m glad she’s managed to find a way back today. Was the flight cancelled due to the storm?

Compensation depends on the reasons why the flights were cancelled, there are regulations about this that apply to all airlines in Europe.
If the flights were cancelled due to technical reasons the airline should pay compensation. This happened to me in May, I booked into the (expensive) hotel at the airport, flew back the next morning on the alternative that KLM offered me via WhatsApp, KLM has already paid my reimbursement claim (hotel, food, they actually paid more than I was expecting). If it is an "act of God", they need to offer an alternative flight but not pay for accommodation or other expenses. I had this two years ago again flying home via Amsterdam, a massive lightning storm had closed Schipol all day, no flights in or out. I booked my own flight back (to Scotland) with Lufthansa via Frankfurt. KLM sent a message offering me a flight three days after the initial one, they would not have paid the flight I booked myself or any expenses because it wasn't their fault the flights were cancelled, my work paid for it. The same is, I think, true for cancellation due to strikes.
I once missed a connection in Amsterdam due to my flight from Glasgow arriving late and they put me into the hotel they use at the airport but they have limited room numbers, when they are gone that's it. They also put people who have booked flights together into one room. There were two colleagues checking into the hotel next to me, woman and man, who were given one room because their flights were booked together by their company. They tried to get two rooms but the receptionist did not budge, saying they only had one room voucher from the airline.

Where abouts are you on the UK, there are loads of flight into the uk

Brilliant.
Is Liverpool handy enough for her to get home from?

That must be a relief for you all!

I get that completely - no criticism of you or your daughter. My DS is travelling at the moment with a group of friends who are all much richer than him and I’d be very sad if they all just abandoned him if the shit hit the fan 😢.

Glad to hear your DD is sorted xx

We have £700 to cover it if we needed to but ultimately it was a knee jerk reaction on behalf of the other parents. One of them wanted to be home today for an event and the other just wanted to come back.

I completely understand that and that is their prerogative but we wanted to them to wait and assess the situation with some knowledge. Having faced similar in January and done the knee jerk thing and thus losing the best part of a grand, we had wanted them all to just wait. They are 18. They are adults. Even if they'd have come back on Tuesday it wouldn't have been the end of the world.

Yes not too bad. It's an hour drive for me later. We're coming back from our own holiday this afternoon which is also a 4 hour drive so it will be a long day but that's fine.

She will have waited in the airport for an extra hour than her friends. She will get home 5 hours later than them. I fail to see what we would have gained spending an extra £700 by panicking.

Of course if she was really stuck we'd have sorted it but all they needed to do was wait a bit to see what the actual options were rather than rushing.

Even if she was there until Tuesday - so what? She'd have had two extra days in Paris. She's perfectly capable. If her friends had stayed that would have been better. They'd have had a great time.

@combatbarbie Happy now?

Not really. If it were my daughter, Id tell her to get to the desk and get their update. The ops daughter could have been 2 people later and told they cant do anything til Tues. Op already stated if the case was Tues, she wouldnt (but could) pay for another flight.

Shes 18 yes, but shes with friends and Op was willing to leave her alone in another country???? Wtf does that.....

My son travelled to America at 18 for the whole summer. He didn't know anyone at all. Is that bad too?

Get a grip