Ryanair's Girona route.

delgirl said:
Perpignan would be great 1/2 hour from Argeles, but as you say I would have to fly to Stansted and then on. Did this with Salzburg and it took practically the whole day to get there.

Fingers crossed that Michael will get what he wants and will keep flying to Girona.
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Forget Girona. Have a look at Aer Lingus's new route. Your trip sorted.

Any suggestion for a nice apartment in Argeles?
 
well pointed out, Tintagel !

This is a slap in the face for MoL. Perpignan is great for the northern Spanish catalonia / Costa Brava and now opens up the French Catalan area .

-plus other new direct routes including Izmir. I'm amazed and delighted that EI are opening new routes.
 
+1 Oldnick. I travel close to Stuttgart several times a year and this new route opening into Stuttgart will make life a lot easier.
 
Tintagel said:
Forget Girona. Have a look at Aer Lingus's new route. Your trip sorted.

Any suggestion for a nice apartment in Argeles?
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Didn't know that Aer Lingus were planning to travel to Perpignan and have already booked with Ryanair to Carcasonne. The Carcasonne flights are more frequent and are cheaper, but next time I'll try Aer Lingus to Perpignan.

There are loads of apartments in Argeles, depends on what you are looking for and who's going. If it's a family with kids, you many want a complex with pool or an apartment near the sea. If it's just adults, you may want something a bit quieter.

If you have a look at the ODV.com website after 21st December, they will have rental listings for 2011. Once their listings for 2011 are up, I can give you the names of apartment building that have a good location, close to the beach with good views.

You can also view apartments for rent on holidayrentals.co.uk

Most of the apartements in Argeles are not serviced and don't come with bed linen, towels etc.
 
Look, Delgirl, we're all going to stay at your friend's place in Argeles. Tell her/him to get some linen,towels etc
 
Yeah. I have been looking at www.holiday-rentals.co.uk and www.homelidays.co.uk but there are very few 1 bed roomed apartments in Perpignan or closer to the coast. Not really interested in bringing linen or towels with me either as I am not going to pay to put a suitcase in the hold. The Aer Lingus flight times are also great, unlike the awful flight times that Ryanair had to Girona forcing people to overnight in an overpriced Girona Hotels. I hope Ryanair lose out bigtime on this one.
I see that Ryanair are fighting with the German airports now over their travel tax. These guys can't see the woods for the trees.
 
oldnick said:
Look, Delgirl, we're all going to stay at your friend's place in Argeles. Tell her/him to get some linen,towels etc
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I'm going to my own bolthole with a fantastic view of the sea and Les Alberes, but couldn't possibly fit you all in! ;)
 
I rented an apartment on the beach on Boulevard De la Mer from an Interhome Agency on Avenue Du Tech 187 Centre Plage, we also hired linen and towels for the week. I needed to get a spare set of keys from them and nothing was a problem. The lady I dealt with was Ida Orfe. I have also availed of the new Aer Lingus route to Perpigan for April but was disappointed that they only fly Saturday and Tuesday and are quite expensive for the summer months, was hoping to avail of the Frogbus from Girona this year, will have to do a few sums before I book my summer hols, with any luck Ryanair will resolve the Girona issue
 
You're right bargainqueen. Am surprised to see Perp so dear this early at booking stage.
23-30 july is 251 euro return (before bag) - only 29 euro less than booking izmir on same dates.

Ryanair have some very cheap deals to barcelona on many dates in July because they're presently excluding taxes- as little as 115 euro return on most weekdays.

Even if one wanted to book somewhere on the French side its worth booking Barcelona rather than Perp, especially if there 's two or more of you.

However, I still can't believe that ryanair wont fly Girona....
 
As usual, Aer Lingus opens a new route (a bit like Funchal), charges outrageous prices. Flies half full. Then closes it down a year later. There are lots of us planning holidays. I have already dismissed Perpignan, on price. So I guess it's Ryanair to Barcelona and then toward Sitges.
 
Tintagel said:
Forget Girona. Have a look at Aer Lingus's new route. Your trip sorted.

Any suggestion for a nice apartment in Argeles?
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As delgirl mentioned. its depends who you travelling with. If you travelling with kids, Argeles has a huge amount of campsites.

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full of good info

Great to see a direct dublin perpignan flight - hopefully there prices will get a bit better !!:)
 
Good news

Lots in the Spanish press today about a deal having been done! Key bit in bold.


Ryanair operará en el aeropuerto de Girona el próximo verano un total de 64 rutas, de las cuales nueve serán nuevas y enlazarán la capital gerundense con los aeropuertos de Cochstedt (Alemania), Karlstad y Skelleftea (Suecia), Kristianstad (Noruega), Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Rzeszow, Szczecin (Polonia), Tallin (Estonia) y Zadar (Croacia).


Este es uno de los principales compromisos del acuerdo que han alcanzado Ryanair y la Asociación para la Promoción y el Desarrollo de las Comarcas Gerundenses (AGI) --formada por la Generalitat, la Diputación de Girona y la Cámara de Comercio de Girona-- y que deberá ratificarse en las próximas semanas.

En virtud de dicho acuerdo, la aerolínea irlandesa de bajo coste se ha comprometido a mantener cuatro millones de pasajeros anuales en las instalaciones de Vilobí d'Onyar, por lo que el aeropuerto de Girona albergará 10 aviones en verano y 6 durante el invierno. Asimismo, permanecerá en el aeropuerto gerundense hasta el 2016 con el fin de consolidar su base y contribuir al desarrollo económico y turístico de la provincia.

Por su parte, la AGI también se ha comprometido a aumentar el volumen de publicidad y márqueting de Girona a través de los canales publicitarios de la aerolínea irlandesa con el fin de impulsar la oferta turística de las comarcas gerundenses.
 
No low cost flights though. And will all their huffing and puffing you would have thought that they might have done something about their unfriendly flight times.
 
Is there ever any issue with fog problems at Girona airport? The Ryanair flight lands late in the evening and as a result an overnight stay in Girona is needed before moving on to the coast. The last thing I want to do is book an overnight in a Girona hotel and end up being diverted to Barcelona or Reus by Ryanair because of fog.
 
Slump - not a direct answer re fog, but yes the lateness of arrival in girona is a drag.
Even if you book a hotel in girona, by the time you pick up your car it's difficult to be in your room much before midnight
(unless you stay at the airport hotel )
And getting to a villa/apt along the coast is horrible at that time.

Returning is also bad. Very late ,so one has to leave one's accommodation far too early.

We are planning to go to C.Brava and I note that EI has reduced its Perpignan flight prices. For anyone in Leinster the timings are great and the price is good. For many resorts it means over an extra hours drive compared to girona -but at a civilised time both going and returning.
 
Ryanair's Girona flights back in the news last week after the new Catalonia govnt reneged on a recent deal with the previous govnt.

RayanAir say they are cancelling several -but evidently not all - routes, but as of yesterday I coudn't work out which ones are being cancelled. Hopefully not Dublin.

Whilst sad that cheap flights are curtailed or cancelled to anywhere, part of me is glad that a strong regional authority is standing up to Ryanair, (as is also Pau airport in France). So-called cheap flights often come at a price -to the town concerned, the region or ,indeed, the EU taxpayer via various subsidies.
 
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