Help me pack ten days in ryan air under Seat

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To do a ten day holiday in europe with ryan air under Seat hand luggage only. I think I can do it but I have been met with FURIOUS resistance from people saying it’s impossible. Please tell me your best packing hacks for the smallest hand luggage. I can wash clothes six days in so that feels inmediately like only a six day holiday…. Help!

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!

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

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.

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

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

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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

Well I do most of my washing in the machine at 30 degrees, is that grim too?

Do you wash it for 45 seconds?

Washing machine cycles at lower temperatures typically take longer because it takes more effort to break down oil, dirt and bacteria without heat.

Washing at a low temperature for mere seconds is just factually not enough to properly cleanse clothes and remove bacteria, particularly underwear of all things.

Plus - the free hand soap in a hotel isn't going to cut it for hand washing. I hand wash my bras at home with Smol liquid. I have done an emergency bra wash with hand soap in a hotel with the hottest tap water and it dried really musty around the underwires, in a way it doesn't with washing liquid. I do it all the time so it wasn't my technique.

You've been arguing on this thread for days without answering any questions yourself.

The hand washing time you are making up is getting shorter and shorter each time, down to only 45 seconds!

No one is making you do this, they are giving OP advice if she wants to go ahead with it.

The size thingy and the bag you are referring to is for the overhead locker option which isnt free - the underseat size is small rucksack or tote bag size (cant remember exactly dimensions) I fly Ryanair frequently and often see people getting charged at the airport for assuming the free underseat bag and overhead 10kg option are the same thing - they aren't!

Well the claim was it takes less than a minute, so max it’s an entire 10 seconds longer. Wow.

Its just amazing how many people walk amount us wearing dirty knickers.

We always have a washing machine at our villa.

I would suggest finding somewhere where you don't have to wait six days before washing.

Also make this a one-off situation and stop supporting a bully by flying with someone else in future.

So why are you on the thread?

Stealth boasts are dull AF.