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| - As you can see from all the reviews, yes, Allegiant Air service and quality is pretty bad overall. Read the fine print folks. Yes, there are charges for Carry On baggage and check-in baggage.
They also charge you for beverages and there are no hot drinks on Allegiant Air. At some airports there are no coffee places either, only a cold drink vending machine and a snack vending machine.
You can avoid a seat assignment charge if you bypass that step when booking your flight and let them assign the seat especially if you don't have small children with you. Somehow my husband and I always get to sit together with unassigned seats.
Some of the airports are small with no accommodations and are usually out of the city limits or off the beaten path.
So, if you decide to fly Allegiant Air, here are my recommendations:
1. Get to know the surrounding area of the airport you are departing from, what are the amenities, hotels, restaurants and taxi services to get there - you may need them.
2. Bring lots of snacks - peanut butter/jelly sandwiches for the kids, fruit, protein bars. You may be stuck in the airport for hours - sometimes into the night.
3. Bring an empty water bottle through security so you can keep filling it up at the water fountain without having to pay $2.00 for a drink each time at the vending machine.
4. Bring a book, Kindle cause you may be reading a lot to kill time.
5. Make sure you put your phone cord charger in your purse or carryon to keep your phone charged. You don't want to use all your battery power entertaining yourself with your phone and then run out of battery power when it comes time to check in with the phone (bar code) - oh well!
6. Bring ear plugs to drown out noise, crying kids and loud talkers.
Lastly, if you fly Allegiant Air make sure you are prepared to spend the entire day traveling. Since they only have ONE Flight a day there are no other flights to catch if they are delayed or canceled which happens quite frequently with them you will be stuck at the tiny airport in a tiny town in a tiny waiting room for a very long time.
Safe travels!
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