Ryanair flight, back from Ibiza!

Check in a bag, leave enough room in your hand luggage and put the duty free in the hand luggage. Provided it stays in there I doubt you'd be challenged.

Alternatively, take some bubble wrap, buy some hierbas before you fly, and pack it in a checked-in hard case. I've done this with bottles which have been flown over 3 connecting flights half way across the world and provided you have wrapped them well and located in the middle of a pile of clothes never had one break.
 
JPF said:
Just had a notification, which is related to this article.

http://www.hertsandessexobserver.co...ooze-flights/story-26611320-detail/story.html

Anyone with experience of late, returning to Stanstead.

Was hoping to bring a few bottles of Hierbas back with me to enjoy back in blighty!
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I will be packing some in suitcase anyway! (and have done before many times, and bubble wrap already ready!)

Just wanted a few extra bottles as hand luggage, but don't like the idea of hand luggage going in the hold!
 
If you read it carefully they say you can have your bag containing duty free booze put in the hold for free at the gate, so if you pack an empty extra bag into your hand luggage then put the duty free booze in that (with extra bubble wrap), keeping your "main" cabin bag with you, then presumably you don't need to worry about your valuables going in the hold along with the booze. There's usually a way around it all !
 
Blame the Glaswegians for this, it was there rowdy behaviour on flights to Ibz which made Ryanair do this. Funnily enough, you can still drink yourself silly on the flight if you want to, provided you buy the bevvy off the booze cart.......
 
Apparently, according to a certain Spotlighter who flew out with them on the Prestwick flight earlier in the week, the flight was completely dry and they didn't serve any alcohol at all even if you wanted to buy it off the cart !
 
likeathiefinthenight said:
Blame the Glaswegians for this, it was there rowdy behaviour on flights to Ibz which made Ryanair do this. Funnily enough, you can still drink yourself silly on the flight if you want to, provided you buy the bevvy off the booze cart.......
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I flew from Bristol last September. To cut a long story short, about twenty brats were handed to the police when we landed at Ibiza. On leaving the plane I did comment to the stewardess that they are partly to blame by still serving them alcohol 30 mins before landing.

It suggests it's a one way ban, so hopefully on return from Ibiza it will be aok!
 
Was not an issue. Plane at Stanstead was 20 mins late, so they were in a hurry to get punters boarded!

On way back, 3 bottles (litres) in suitcase, and another 3 bottles as hand luggage!

Enjoying a Hierbas con hielo as we speak, waiting for Ants to come on Sonica at 9pm!
 
JPF said:
On leaving the plane I did comment to the stewardess that they are partly to blame by still serving them alcohol 30 mins before landing.
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Well that's it, they put themselves in this position by continually serving these people drinks. imo it should be a dry flight anyway, if you can't go 2.5 hours without a drink you've got problems.
 
We were on one of those Prestwick to ibiza flights in 2013. Worst flight Iv ever been on.. A girl across from us giving a guy oral and a guy running up and down the plane naked.. We were threatened that if we didn't all sit and put out seat belts on we were landing in Barcelona. We made it to ibiza and the idiots were handed over to the police in ibiza airport.
Was on a jet2 flight to Prague 3 weeks ago from glasgow and it was a dry flight due to the behaviour of all the stags as soon as they got on, groping the female attendants, they then all started going off on one because they couldn't go 2.5hrs without alcohol! Felt sorry for the attendants.
 
I always wonder how these types of people can afford to go to ibiza, as I can't believe that they actually go out every morning and do a day's work.
 
On my first trip to Ibiza there were two idiots on the flight causing all sorts of trouble, drinking, smoking in the toilets (despite repeated warnings from the cabin crew and pilot) and doing coke somewhere too, according to the cabin crew. When we arrived in Ibiza we parked away from the terminal building and the police boarded and took away the offending yobbos. Ha, we thought, now you're in the shit! ...that was until we finally got our luggage, came out and found those dickheads already there and first in a very long queue, for a taxi!

I can remember thinking at the time, oh no, Ibiza really is like on the telly, thankfully I was proven wrong :-)!
 
This led to a flight attendant to say over the tannoy system: 'Ladies and gentlemen, please remain quiet. There are travellers on board with young children. Please do not swear. Thank you.'



How does the Mail know it's a Tannoy system?
 
Ok I've been holding this back for a little while now but the time has come to RANT :mad:

I am thoroughly sick of the media portraying Ibiza as a nisland full of violent thuggish yobbish delinquents. I work in the media myself, so I understand it's just an agenda designed to sell papers/get hits on web articles etc.
But it's simple...

If you are going to Ibiza, don't expect a quiet family holiday! In fact, f*** off and don't even come to Ibiza if you're gonna moan about it.
The amount of hotel reviews I see on tripadvisor where the negative coments consists of "not enough entertainment in the hotel.... young clubbers were coming in at 6am and we heard them walking up the corridors.... loud music was played by the pool in the day, not good for families!"

YEAH. There will be music.
YEAH. People may be a little rowdy on the flight, they're excited.
YEAH. People will be coming back from clubs at 6am. It's the clubbing capital of Europe.

I'm not saying older people shouldn't come to Ibiza, there's plenty of beauty on the island for everyone.
Don't fancy Amnesia or DC10? Cool, go to Es Vedra and admire the views. Check out the beautiful craft in old Ibiza Town.
But don't come here with your famiy of small children and then moan about it being a party destination.

I've got two small children myself. Would I take them on holiday here? Absolutely not!
Bordeaux? Yes.
Barcelona? Probably.
Biza? Hell no.

I'm not suggesting we should all be doing ket and then shagging pensioners up the arse, but this flight is a pretty harmless flight singing along to "Look Right Through", a fairly tame club-cum-chart song. You wanna see a really wild flight? They could all be throwing dog shit around whilst belting out the Prodigy. It's about perspective.

RANT OVER :p;)
 
JakeG2015 said:
I'm not suggesting we should all be doing ket and then shagging pensioners up the arse
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:eek::twisted:

I agree that there definitely seems to be a media agenda to portray Ibiza as far more wild/chavy than it actually is. I didn't think that flight video seemed too bad either!

There are plenty of family-friendly parts of Ibiza and I know people who go with their kids and love it (although stay away from the clubs). Most expect the flights to be a bit 'interesting', so either try to get a morning flight or just grin and bear it. Some people do get a bit excited on the flights, but the same can be said for most weekend city break destinations, be it Amsterdam, Berlin, Budapest, Prague...
 
JakeG2015 said:
Ok I've been holding this back for a little while now but the time has come to RANT :mad:



If you are going to Ibiza, don't expect a quiet family holiday! In fact, f*** off and don't even come to Ibiza if you're gonna moan about it.
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I'm thinking about taking my 3 yr old on a family holiday there in Sept, go somewhere up north, for exactly what you're saying not to expect - a quiet family holiday. Ibiza caters for all of it.
 
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