To assume that travelling Ryanair with an infant will be vile?

[birdofthenorth]

Flying with Nazi Air tomorrow. DD is 12 months. Is it safe to assume every aspect of this will be vile?!

Couldn't afford their crazy priority check in charges so will probably end up separated from DH.

Having to squeeze her travel cot etc into our suitcase as carrying it separately would have been £40!
They don't heat bottles so she will have to
drink cold milk. Or BF, which may not be fun crammed next to a stranger.

I also assume the changing unit will be up to Ryanair's usual crappy standards, so I will probably end up covered in poo.

Should I start popping Valium now in anticipation?!

I agree with that. In my experience Ryanair do not let people with babies on first.

No Ryanair don't let babies etc go first. Get your OH to shoot ahead and bag some seats.

Last time we flew with RA, the Priority line was sooo long they started boarding all of us, so that was however much wasted by all thoes people.

If everyone stopped buying that option they'd get rid.

Good Luck!

No it will be fine (or as fine as it would be with any cheap airline).

You'll pretty much definitely get a seat next to dh, simply because he'll probably be the only person who'll want to sit next to you and dd - who I'm sure is completely adorable but people tend not to want to sit next to someone with a child on their lap on a plane so they will be very accomodating to you

YABU and a complete snob.

£5 per passenger for priority boarding is not crazy.

It's 2 hours. Suck it up or pay real money for exactly the same service from someone else.

We flew Ryanair in summer with DD1 aged 8 and DD2 then 4months. It was absolutely fine both ways. On way out, DP and DD2 got whole row to themselves since no one wanted to sit beside a baby! On way home, I was in a row of 3 with kids and DP seated across and down a bit. Lady beside us moved so we could all sit together. (I guess she didn`t want to sit near a baby either!) DD2 was a dream, no crying on either flight (to Portugal, so 3 hours) I bf her without any drama and DP changed her. No worries, you will be fine. Staff were wonderful, btw.

I've flown easyjet on my own with dd, from 8 months onwards. It wasn't any worse than flying on any other airline with an infant (it's not the funnest few hours nevertheless). I kept dd amused with some small books and filled a tupperware tub with cheerios and raisons - they take a long time to eat and kept her busy for half an hour or so. Also put her in the seat next to you when you board and people will assume that you've paid for that seat too. I've always ended up with a row of 3 to myself and it means when the seatbelt sign is off, your dc can wander along the row / look out the window and your less likely to have to try and stop a wriggling infant from kicking the person sitting next to you!