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Just a heads up.

Ryan Air Coffee is disgusting, and €3.75, but watch out. They may mumble to you that's £3.45, please. Now we are all just into wafting our cards and phones and paying without paying attention.

But €3.75 to  £3.45 is a shocking exchange rate, ask to pay in Euros and the coffee will still taste disgusting but will only cost £3.14 with a decent overseas spend account.

I was expecting  a variant on the old joke about TWA  coffee.......

I really don't understand why awful coffee exists.

With instant we usually buy the kenco millicano. It tastes pretty good, and much better than a bad Americano (looking at you Starbucks).

It's not cheap, we usually buy on offer at £3.00 per tin. But I've seen it over £6 per tin. On offer it works out at about 7p per coffee.

At >£3 a coffee on Ryanair, why not just use the decent stuff. Even if it's 5p more per cup, anybody who's willing to pay £3.14 for crap will happily pay £3.19. Heck, I might even buy two.

TBH Easy jet coffee is really rather good IIRC though no idea how much and its not that easy to find the price online, without a flight code.

The Ryan Air is Lavazza and is distinctly unpleasant, and I am no coffee snob, bit of a peasant truth be told.

The best in flight coffee I’ve ever tased was on Air France, and it’s free too. Better than BA Business Class and even Emirates first class.

As a certified coffee snob, I've had some luck simply taking an Aeropress and a cup to brew my own. Most of the cabin crews haven't charged me for hot water when nicely asked (yet).

That way, you can partly compensate for the lower air pressure and its lower water boil temperature using a finer grind or playing with the extraction. And you get to join the mile‑high coffee club (just kidding)

Last time I flew (a couple of years ago on Ryan Air) the person next to me had brought their own posh coffee bags and asked for a cup of hot water. Not sure how legal that is re security though.

Drinking a cup of Lavazza vs ten years in Belmarsh. Difficult.

 What would the security issue be?!

The really baffling thing is that I was able to buy a Ryanair flight last week for just ten times the price of one of their coffees.

And I think the solution to the coffee problem is not to buy one. £3 plus is ridiculous however good or bad the coffee.

£18 Manchester to Marrakech 

£17 Faro to Manchester 

Flix bus Seville to Faro €30

Train Seville to Manchester 

No real idea but the Torio Oro to Barcelona was €58 and Barcelona to Paris was €160, Eurostar to London?????? London to Manchester, leaving aside Avanti strikes, that price could be £120.

Sadly there is little incentive to not fly, other than the rubbish coffee

Just as there are restrictions on taking liquids on board aircraft (because bombs), and because I haven't flown for a while, I wasn't sure if there are restrictions on food or powders or whatever, and I was too lazy to check.

So now I checked and gov.uk says:

Food items and powders in your hand luggage can obstruct images on x-ray machines. Your bags may need to be checked again manually by security. You can put these items in your hold luggage to minimise delays.

https://www.gov.uk/hand-luggage-restrictions

So I guess its okay but I dunno...

Ryanair coffee is to coffee what Hahn is to Frankfurt.

Remember British Rail coffee - you would buy tea instead, it was cheaper and tasted more or less the same.

The true "connoisseur" knew to nibble the styrofoam cup a little with every sip as the polystyrene taste masked some on the more "unusual notes" of the tea

The Worst Airline's coffee was pretty bad, but Pan Am's (just before they went bust) was the worst ever - more like dishwater!

European flights are generally so short, it's not worth bothering with the feeble and overpriced snacks and beverages on offer.

Sounds like you never heard the joke, John. Either that or you're too couth to mention it 

Agree about the flight lengths, though. 

My wife's flapjack has the same character on the scanner as semtex.

Ryanair coffee is disgusting and they rip you off at every opportunity? Whatever next? The pope becoming a catholic? 

I had forgotten that one!

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Train coffee not better....

The coffee on the Lille to Marseille TGV this summer was not too bad, accompanied by a madeleine.

I don’t know it. Care to share?

With much careful experimenting, East Midland Railway have managed to capture the flavour of tea in a styrofoam cup even with more environmentally sound paper cups. Disgusting.

So hard to get a decent brew anywhere.

I think it was a cartoon/ postcard  and it involved an attractive air hostess( as they were called at that time)  who has apparently just asked a shocked passenger "Would you like some TWA coffee or some TWA ( insert hot beverage more favoured by the British)"

Think you may have answered your own question, Monty 🙂

I have done this with tea before, and will be doing so again after a recent 12 hour flight with BA on which they initially pretended they didn't have Earl Grey at all (their overbrewed breakfast tea served from a large pot is vile), before eventually admitting they did in fact have some in the galley at the front of the plane, and slipping me one (and only one!) quietly to shut me up.

And as bad as the breakfast tea was, it was nothing compared with the food...

Congratulations! You win this week's 'First World Problems' Award! Well done!

Exactly. FFS: get a flight for £18 !! and then still have a moan about a coffee at £3 and grumble at a 'shocking' 34 pence conversion hike. Totally bonkers.

And its RyanAir; so its not as if the OP didn't know what they were going to get. 

Actually, I rather like Ryanair, they set out a deal, and if both parties stick to the deal, they will transport you efficiently to your destination.

I did think the dodgey exchange rate thing a bit sneaky though.

Having said that, this thread has been useful as I shall now take a sachet of 3 in 1 coffee and get a cup of hot water, next time I fly.

It amazes me people still get caught out by them to be honest.  You have to have had your head in a bucket of sand for the past 20 years not to know.  Stick to the absolute letter of the rules and you'll have no problems.

Dynamic Currency Conversion is always a fiddle - why would you offer it at all if not to take a profit from it?  Always choose to pay in the business's home currency, and for Ryanair, being Irish, that's the Euro.

They'll probably charge you for the cheapest hot drink (usually tea) for that.  A lot of places will give you hot water for free but they're under no obligation to do so, and Ryanair is Ryanair so they most probably won't.

Isn't Ryanair's coffee still those filter cups?  I think those are quite good to be honest.

Ah. Thanks. Clearly an ancient joke which I’ve never heard.