I'm travelling with Ryanair with no bag drop at the end of September from Stansted airport. My train arrives the night before. Is it possible to go through security when I arrive and sleep overnight when I'm there? I've read that Stansted isn't sleeper friendly but I plan on just sitting on a bench overnight, is this allowed?
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Yes. I've done it several times, the most recent being July 2019.
It depends when you arrive to if you can go through security though. The airport is 'shut' for a few hours in the middle of the night.
Basically, you can arrive anytime and stay in the arrivals/departures area before going through security, there's loads of floor space (not a lot of seating) and some people even use sleeping bags and eye masks.
Last time I was there security was closed between 12-2am, so you won't be able to go through until after that time. After you go through there's a lot more seating and again, quite a lot of sleeping people. Security make their rounds and sometimes wake people up to check passes etc.
A great source I use for things like this is the sleeping in airports site, heres the one for stansted.
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