Cheapest flight from Bristol to Amsterdam - Flying from Bristol to Amsterdam with Easyjet
Easyjet are well known as being the cheapest airline. They fly from Bristol to the capital of sin Amsterdam. Oh dear. We now have a cheap and easy way to get to Amsterdam.
The flights, which leave Bristol at 18:55, 07:30 on Saturday and 15:00 on Sunday, are packed with a mixture of business travellers whose employers are cheap, hen and stag parties who lack imagination, and plenty of ‘fun’ looking characters who are no doubt going to sample the well know delights of the Dam. I refer, of course, to the world famous pastries and cycling opportunities.
Easyjet flights are known for being low cost and basic. I am sure they would dispense with life jackets if they could to shave a bit more cash. I love the fact that the easjet.com website has GoogleAds running on it to make them a few more pence. GoogleAds is the ad program from Google generally used by cheap, sleazy, lo-fi websites - like this one. The flights range in cost between 20-120 pounds each way for this trip.
Before you leave remember to check in online. Easyjet has lots of different flights leaving Bristol and, as befits its image as a lowcost airline, it doesn’t have enough staff on checkout to hold back the massive queues. I hate queues more than a fat kid hate sports lessons so I always print out my boarding card on the Easyjet website. This allows me to skip straight to security like some sort of Easyjet VIP. Easyjet much prefers you do it this way because it saves them money.
When I flew on a Sunday. The flight was delayed for an hour which didn’t bode well for this review. Little did they know they had left an undercover reporter waiting. I think to save money Easyjet schedules their planes pretty tightly so I do notice them being later than others more frequently.
The great thing about Easyjet at Bristol Airport compared to KLM is that you can walk to the plane with Easyjet. KLM always makes me wait in some sweaty, crowded bus for ten minutes before it pootles off across the tarmac to the inexplicably far away ‘premium service’ plane. With Easyjet you just walk for 30 seconds along the tarmac. Much less fuss. They also have stairs fore and aft (back and front to non-aeronautical minds) which makes boarding quicker and makes it easier to grab a seat near the exit for quick getaway.
The flight takes about an hour and is quick and painless despite the limited legroom. Obviously Easyjet gives no free lounge access, no free priortiy boarding and no free drinks and snacks on board. However you can easily buy priority boarding, for 7.50, on the Easyjet website guaranteeing you first choice of all seats on the place because pretty much no one else uses that service it seems. Lounge access can be bought for about 13 pounds or with a lounge pass or a Priority Pass and drinks can just be bought for a fiver or so on the flight. Add that all up and Easyjet probably works out much better value than an economy ticket on a KLM flight but with all the little business perks which you can easily just buy yourself.
At Schiphol side it is about a ten minute walk to baggage and passport control. To skip queues I always recommend sprinting past all the people on the moving walkway. Always gets the adrenaline purring. You just look a little mad. The train in to Amsterdam centre costs about 3-4 euros and takes 20 minutes.
So yeah, I’m a big fan of Easyjet apart from the fact they are constantly, hair tearingly late on a frequent basis which has chewed up hours of my precious time eating danish pastries and drinking bad coffee in dull regional airports. But yeah, apart from that I like them.