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Another problem these days is that, due to the increase in free wifi in bars, internet cafes are closing down at a rate of knots. This means finding locals willing to let you use their printing facilities. Easier said than done.
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San Pedro El Cafe on Calle Alcalde Julio Albaladejo. I don't live near the area anymore but I could certainly remember El Cafe. There was also oine called Netmania on C/Segovia. Not sure if that has printers but El Cafe certainly did.
We now live in a small town (smaller that San Javier, anyway) and have at least 3 places with internet and printer facilities so I'm sure there must be some in the areas you mentioned.
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Well. the whinging brits are doing themselves proud on this one!
So, let's think about this. You're in a beautiful part of the world on holiday, and you are set a task to find some resource that allows you to print your boarding tickets off in the next 2 hours - or you will die, Now, my guess is that you wont end up dying at all. This is what I think will happen. You will probably find, hidden away in a tiny niche in that big?, nornmally useless to you, grey clump of pulsating protein in your head, some resource that helps you to survive another day - and find someone to print your boarding pass for you with minimum fuss.
Now it might be a internet cafe (there's a surprise)! It might be a friendly retailer or bar owner whom you have chummied up with this last fortnigh, talked about Lionel Messi, and swelled his profits massively. It could even be Paco the goatherd's 9 year old son who you gave a Crewe Alexandra FC lapel badge to in return for him letting you look at his..whatever..it doesn't really matter actually.
Anyway hopefully one gets the point. Panic over - print your card, retire to bar of choice, shout over to the still bemused, after 13 days of you, waiter 'Anothero Beero Palo!' sit back and think of your unfortunate chums back in blighty, and get on with your hols.
Next post here I predict...'It's ok for you to say that but our village in the mountains has no shops, no bars and no 9 year old boys. the only boys here are either 8 or 10 years old. If you want a 9 year old boy to help you then you have to traipse 17km to the next village. theres only one 9 year old there - and he turns 10 on Friday! Plus, I've never asked him to show me anything!
God I hate RyanAir!!!'
A bit of perspective folks. You are seeing places, for next to nothing that generations of your families before could only see in a travel agents window as they stuck their snotty noses against it ...and dreamt!
Happy holidays.
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where I live there's no bars, no shops, no internet connection, no telephone lines
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Serioulsy John though, what have you done in the past? If you live there then surely you must need to print off there for just a single journey leaving that day
Does your comment mean you live in Hartlepools? There they have half-day opening, not closing.
If it's in Spain - tell us all where it is - then we can avoid it like the plague mate! fun city it aint! Still I suppose the locals there, even if they die young, feel theyve lived to 100.
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All, I've just had exactly the same issue as I'm staying for just more than 15 days. Actually you'll likely find, as have I, that the check in opens for more than 15 days. check as late as you can while you're still in the UK and near a printer. If it's around that period, chances are that you'll be able to check in.
Carl
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it's in Spain and I'd be more than happy if you avoided it
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What a bunch of squabbling school kids get a life. Purchase a tablet with 3 or even4g connectivity and a cheap mobile wireless printer go into any area where a mobile phone can be used and jobs done and it the printer needs electric go into any bar and buy a drink and ask if you can plug in for two minutes. This is the 21st century and believe it or not spain is in it as well.
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'where I live there's no bars, no shops, no internet connection, no telephone lines'
Assuming you knew this when you bought then I guess you have to live with consequences of that decision.
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Or come out of your cave swap the loin cloth for a pair of jeans and walk till you get mobile signal ......probably about 100 meters
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Gone a bit off topic methinks So, back to Ryanair. Cheap, reliable (mostly), good airport selection. The boarding card printingmay be a nuisance but only a couple of airlines allow you to print them off well in advance. Only "surly" staff I've seen are some of those checking bag sizes before boarding but, apparently, these don't work for Ryanair. Annoying trying to flog you things in flight but don't they all do that? Just that Ryanair keep on doing it. If there is a flight going to where I want and at a good price then I'll use them. For 2 hours 20 mins or whatever I can put up with them. I actually quite like the fact you can't recline the seats as it means the obnoxious one in front can't push theirs back so it crushes you or forces the tray into your stomach. Turn around times might be fast but two return flights between Spain an UK is about the same time as a single flight across the Atlantic and you don't see the engineers checking the long flights every couple of hours. And, don't know if Ryanair does it, but you can download boarding cards onto your mobile phone/tablet/laptop and they accept them for scanning at Alicante. The future beckons (talking of which, what happened to all these jet packs and jetboots we were promised on Tomorrow's World about 40 years ago? I'd have thought planes and cars would have been a thing of the past by now).
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Johnmcmahon,
You asked about places to print boarding passes in Sucina.
I answered your question earlier.
Did you not read it?
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Thanks guys - Ive really enjoyed the giggles from reading some of these threads!!! 
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I have now Jarvie
where are they ?.......directions from that square outside the big church ?
thanks
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"However if you know any place in San Pedro or San Javier or Sucina please tell me. If you don't then your advice is useless" (John McMahon)
I don't know those areas so presumably my suggestions are useless. However most areas have a Facebook Group of some kind or another. Recently someone staying in the mountains above my village put a plea on the local FB group with exactly this problem - needed to print off her family boarding cards. I offered use of my printer, they came down the mountain, they left my house with four boarding cards and left me a bottle of wine. Simples. And friendly. Sorry to be so useless.
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Tamara that's not useless at all. there's a local community certainly....but it's not an on line one
most folks work in the fields......internet connections, computers. you're having a laugh
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Bobaol - I reckon you failed to get the thread back on track. It could be that far too many have now convinced themselves said they are really happy being treated with contempt by RyanAir. I have flown a round trip with RyanAir and on both legs the experience was diabolical.
I didn't see the TV documentary and disappointed that Foxilady was treated so badly on this thread for raising it. But presumably the gist was simply that RyanAir cut all corners they possibly could, if so, not a surprise really. But there again from a risk viewpoint they are probably no worse than many others.
For me it's a matter of choice and priorities. So I will probably never fly RyanAir again whilst there is an alternative. But I do wish that those who choose to fly RyanAir would get over the need to shout it from the rooftops - so you are happy to accept second best, bully for you. I'm just glad there is usually a choice.
You've got to think that RyanAir's days may be numbered. As soon as the economies of Europe pick up and people are not so obsessed with saving every last penny, some will move elsewhere. I've never yet heard anyone say "I would pay extra to fly with RyanAir"!
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"But I do wish that those who choose to fly RyanAir would get over the need to shout it from the rooftops."
This thread was actually started by someone who doesn't like Ryanair, and wanted to have another whinge about them, which seems to be the reason we get so many comments on the subject, not Ryanair customers shouting anything. I'm quite happy paying considerably less by travelling with Ryanair than using Jet2 which are my alternative, while others pay more and use Jet2. Jet2 are always considerably more expensive than Ryanair when I've checked. On the few occasions I have flown with Jet2 they have been delayed every time and the flight time was considerably longer, presumably due to their aged fleet. Ryanair customers aren't stupid or "allow themselves to be treated with contempt", but we do tend to have a bit more spending cash in our pockets.
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