at this point I'll mention that yes I could have done two bookings, but is £8 really worth the hassle of doing everything twice?!

Also, another reason is because when you pay by card you get a fee. At the time I assumed the fee would be around £3-4 (as it was £2.80 in January, which you'll have seen had you continued reading), and so a fee for each booking would have made the £8 saving just £4-5. Not to mention that you'd have to find a way to check in whilst on holiday (as I think you have to check in under a certain number of hours beforehand) which makes you wonder if £4-5 is worth the saving.

But of course, if you'd continued reading you'd have found the real point behind the post which wasn't about the cost of the flights, wasn't about the cost of the extras which are all understandable for a budget airline. But about their business ethics in charging £16 to pay by Switch for a £36 purchase.

You'd have seen that if you'd continued reading…

Even though we're only checking in one case, because there's two of us in the party we both have to do airport check in (so one couldn't get the free online check in), so another £4 each way

… and decided it wasn't worth my time reading any more. Ever hear of a split booking?

Plus if you re-read what I wrote, you'll see that I was unaware of the additional £16 charge until I'd paid in full. I'm not about to cancel, as you can't get your money back.

Anyway, as I've said over and over, it's not the cost, that's cheap there's no doubt about it. It's the way they do it. I just don't appreciate hiding costs.

Oh and it's well recommended that you take travel insurance when ever you go away. I've been abroad and had a canceled RyanAir flight due to the weather. They just booked me into the following day, no additional cost or problem. However, that's what your travel insurance is for if you need it.

My main gripe with RyanAir is on the return legs of flights. If they cancel for whatever reason, you are up a gumtree. Have you tried ringing the customer support line – forget it. Basically you are on your own to find a way back! Get compensation???? You are joking.

Take a hosting company who sells domains for say $5 a year. The cheapest .com I know of is about $6 a year, so clear the company is making a loss. Of course they need to recoup that loss, so hidden in the terms and conditions it says that if you wish to pay by card for your domain it will cost $5 per domain.

However, how else are you meant to pay for something online? So the advert is '$5 domains' but after you've added a few to your basket, you've completed your details and then you get to the point where it asks for your card details. $15 it says on the page, for 3 domains. Sounds like a great deal, so you enter your details in. Suddenly $15 shoots up to $30 as they've added $5 per domain to your card, which is actually less than what I paid for a card payment on these flights.

If RyanAir can get away with doing it, why not a hosting company? We're used to seeing minor charges on cards if the price is low. You can't offer a low price without charging for the fee. But £16 for a maximum 40p fee is ridiculous. It's not a case of saying 'they need to make back their money', otherwise why bother discounting the tickets in the first place. All the other charges I can understand, and it wouldn't be an issue if the flights had been £5 each.

As I said, it's not the price, it's the way they took the money. I like things to be in plain sight, not hidden to make it sound attractive.

Why add £4 per person per flight on at the card payment stage? Why not just make the flights £5?! Saying £16 for a switch card processing fee is ridiculous, saying 40p for the fee and £5 for the flight would get them more respect.

Also found the Daily Mirror had blogged on this subject along with quite a few frustrated people – blog post. I like RyanAir's argument that it's avoidable by paying with Visa Electron. I have several cards, not one is a VE card!