Stopover in Dublin on way to London
 

We are traveling from Boston to London in late June. We were thinking about trying to do a stopover in Dublin on our way for a day. How do we book this with Aerlingus?

Hi skskenney; You can do this on-line, by booking Boston to Dublin, RT. Then book Dublin to London RT. There are many round tripe from Dublin each day, so lining up flight times to meet your connections is easy. For WWW.AERLINGUS.COM/ help desk, call 1-516 6224222. For reservations, call 1-800 4747424 ENJOY Iris

Do not book two tickets separately. Doing so means that on the tight connection at Dublin (where you have to go through US immigration and Customs)on the way back, you're not protected if the incoming flight from Heathrow's delayed. Aer Lingus would PROBABLY help you: but they're obliged to if the whole journey's on one ticket

You need to phone Aer Lingus, and book the journey in the way you've stated. The website won't let you do it.

I think one ticket is best if you can do so for the same price, but in this instance where the planned flights are a day apart, you'd have to be quite unlucky for two tickets not to work.

We just did this with a chicago to paris with a stopover in Dublin on the way back. We called Aerlingus and got it all on one ticket. It seemed to be actually cheaper to do it that way because although it looks like the flights from dublin to paris and return were cheap....there seemed to be alot of hidden charges. These were a charge for booking your seat, extra taxes, and luggage fees. These charges weren't included on the all-one-ticket booking.

"you'd have to be quite unlucky for two tickets not to work."

They have to go back. They have to change at Dublin, cram an awful lot of US bureaucracy into a very tight window and at most there are only two Boston flights a day. Given they'll be starting at Heathrow, there's a reasonable chance the bloody plane will still be in London when the Boston flight's taking off from Ireland.

I agree with no separate tickets if flying back on the same day.

I know this thread was done a month ago, but I've got a question.


My husband and I are flying from Newark, NJ to Dublin. And then flying on Ryanair from Dublin to Florence. The way to Florence is fine--we're staying in Dublin for two days.

On the way home is another story. We are flying from Florence to Dublin and then from Dublin to the US on the same day. The time between the flights is two and a half hours.

I'm concerned about getting my bags and making it to my next flight in time. Will I have to go through Customs again? What can I expect? Is the plane with Ryanair a small one? Can I expect to walk off my plane and pick up my bags before going into the airport to go to our next flight?

Ryanair, if I read the fine print correctly, will allow me to change my dates, so I'm considering changing my flight to the day before and then sucking up another night in a Dublin hotel. Is that what would be best?

You are right that 2.5 hours is quite risky, for your return home. Ryanair planes are 737s, so not particularly small.

Ryanair will charge you to make the change, but I do think that's your best option. Or else forgetting about the tickets you have and just booking some for earlier. Sometimes that can be cheaper.