Ryanair or Easyjet?

[GruffalosGirl]

We're looking at booking for Barcelona in September from Liverpool to fly with me, DH and a 2yr old and 6mth old and when we look at transfer costs from the different airports they both cost approx the same.

Has anyone got any advice on which would be the best to pick in this case? Is there much difference between the two?

Doesn't Ryanair fly to Girona? It's a coach journey to Barcelona which is fine but quite long. Easyjet I'm fairly sure go to Barcelona Airport.

I'm totally scunnered by Ryanair's endless additional charges though and am refusing to use them ever again.

Easyjet also have a lot of charges but are yet to charge you for actually boarding the plane unlike their blue and yellow competitor.

It would be to Reus through Ryanair but we'd be staying in Cambrils so would be a shorter and quicker transfer with Ryanair.

Once you add in all of Ryanair's additional costs the transfer from Barcelona works out the same though as Easyjet don't charge for priority boarding or car seat transport

I've just found jet2 for cheaper, has anyone ever flown with these and got any good/bad experiences?

I have used Easy Jet in the past, and it was fine. You can take handbag into the plane which with children is very useful (my little one had one as well).

With Ryanair you can have only 1 small bag, and if its too big they will charge you (children without a seat are not allowed any bags, not even a blanket in their hands). They even put your bags on the scale. Didn't happened with Easy Jet.

All the airlines let in families with children after the priority boarding, so its not that bad, I personally do not bother with priority boarding, just because they will let us in earlier than the rest of the plane.

Just please no RyanAir. They are really just for students. I have flown only once with them but that was enough. Have not flown with EasyJet for some time, but 2-3 years ago it was all ascetic, but perfectly ok.

Sleazyjet has a pretty poor reputation, but every time I've used them they have been on time.
The flight is so short it doesn't matter if you aren't served afternoon tea and your DC given yet more tat.
Never used jet2, sorry, I have used Ryanair. They were shockingly bad as previously described.

I would rather walk than use Ryanair. Easyjet every time for us!

Never Ryanair again!

easy jet hand luggage has size restriction, but no weight limit

Easyjet for sure.

Don't bother even looking at Ryan Air's website.

We've used Jet2. Very impressed, you can book seats too. Definitely a step up from the other two. Personally I would never ever fly Ryanair again, Easyjet OK, Jet2 the best of the three.

not ryanair - went stansted -to barcelona with easyjet - it was good

EasyJet or Jet2 any time.
i fly with both several times a year.

Easy jet gets my vote. Not perfect, but Ryan air and Mr O'Leary are thoroughly unpleasant. All too stressful.

Never again with Ryanair after they dropped three plane loads of people in Brussels rather than Paris (including lots of families from Scotland/Ireland who were taking their kids to EuroDisney for the weekend) due to 'fog' -- my mother was in Paris that day and said the skies were crystal clear. Took four hours for them to organise a coaches, no opportunity to get food or water, not even when coach got a puncture on the motorway that took 2.5 hours to fix!

The icing on the cake was when the coach drove all the way around the outskirts of Paris including past a couple of RER stations, but refused to stop because 'Ryanair runs a point to point service' -- so we had to go on to Beauvais, where we still didn't get a change to get anything to eat or drink before getting on the coach back to Paris. No apology, no compensation from Ryanair despite a delay of more than 12 hours.

I've flown EasyJet a few times and they were fine -- no frills, but the staff were pleasant and helpful. The Ryainair attitude is just horrible.

That said, I haven't found that the mainstream airlines like BA are that much more expensive when everything else is taken into account and can actually be cheaper.

That is right urban! Just recently checked EasyJet and BA and BA... gulp... was 60gbp cheaper on a return flight! I usually fly BA because I am very close to T5 but I never thought they would be actually cheaper.

Thanks everyone, going to go for Jet2, at least I know we'll all be sitting together

Been to Cambrils, flew with Easyjet and caught a coach outside Barcelona airport directly to Cambrils. Would have been easier to fly to Reus, but we did'nt want to go with Ryanair.

Easyjet all the way. I can't stand ryanair.

Ryanair=dreadful. Michael O Leary= Spawn of Satan

We have flown with jet2 and it was fine much more civilised than the other 2 as you get a seat allocated.

Neither!

Have flown Ryanair (to and from Poland) about 50 times over the last few years and have always found them to be excellent - really polite crew, cheap tickets, no frills but you get what you pay for, superb customer service when flights had to be cancelled due to bad weather (i.e. 1mm of snow at Bristol )

God forbid they ever stop operating the route I usually travel to see my family, will probably have to start selling internal organs or family members to pay for equivalent easyjet tickets.

Don't know why everyone hates Ryanair.

shmoz i hope you play euromillions (with your luck you are mad not to)