A breakdown of easyJet's sports equipment fees and weight limits for golf clubs, and why the numbers might make you rethink packing your own set.
EasyJet is one of the biggest carriers flying into Faro, and if you're bringing your own set for a golf trip to the Algarve, the clubs need to be booked as their own item — separate from your normal hold bag, with their own size limit and their own fee. Here's what easyJet actually charges, how the booking works, and a cheaper alternative worth considering before you check a golf bag at all.
How EasyJet classifies golf clubs
EasyJet books golf clubs under "small sports equipment", the same category as things like a single snowboard bag. You're limited to one piece of sports equipment per passenger, and it has to travel in the hold — there's no cabin option for a golf bag. It's added to your booking as its own paid item, not folded into your regular checked baggage.
Weight limits
The small sports equipment allowance covers up to 20kg, which a standard golf bag with a full set, balls and shoes normally falls within. Go over that and easyJet charges an excess fee in bands — roughly £12 (around €12) per extra 3kg — so it's worth weighing the bag at home rather than finding out at check-in. easyJet's page doesn't publish a fixed maximum length/width/height for golf bags specifically, but a standard hard or soft golf travel case is accepted without issue.
What it costs
Based on easyJet's published sports equipment fees, golf clubs typically run at roughly £35–£40 / €35–€40 per item, per one-way flight, when added online in advance — and noticeably more, often £45–£50, if you leave it and pay at the airport instead. As with any airline, these fees can be adjusted or vary slightly by route and season, so it's worth double-checking the exact current price in the "Add sports equipment" section when you book or manage your flight.
That's per direction, so a return flight means paying the fee twice, and it's per passenger — a couple travelling with two golf bags pays it twice over as well.
It doesn't replace your normal checked bag
easyJet is explicit that sports equipment and regular hold luggage weight can't be pooled — your golf clubs are a separate purchase from your suitcase, not an allowance you can top up with spare kilos from elsewhere. If you're also checking a normal bag for clothes, that's on top of the golf clubs fee. Packing clothes and shoes into the pockets of a padded golf travel bag, and travelling with just that as your one hold item, is a common way golfers trim the total cost.
How to add golf clubs to your booking
You can add sports equipment when you first book, later through Manage Bookings on the easyJet website or app, or during online check-in — all of which get you the lower online rate. Adding it at the airport desk or over the phone costs more, so it's worth sorting before you travel rather than leaving it to departure morning. Use a proper padded or hard-shell travel cover: hold luggage gets handled roughly, and a thin bag cover won't protect the clubs from a bent shaft or a cracked driver head.
The alternative: rent clubs right at Faro Airport
easyJet's own rules already make this less appealing than it sounds — clubs are a separate purchase from your suitcase, with their own weight cap, on top of an outbound and a return fee. So instead, a growing number of golfers flying easyJet into Faro just rent when they land. Two operators are set up right inside Faro Airport (FAO): one in the arrivals hall, one at a departures-terminal counter. Grab a set on the spot, or have it dropped at your hotel or first tee — either way, there's no bag to check and no shaft to worry about bending in the hold.
Prices and delivery areas vary by operator, so it's worth a quick look at our full list of club rental shops across the Algarve before deciding — not every one of them is airport-based, and some cover specific towns more cheaply.
Bottom line
There's nothing complicated about bringing your own set on easyJet — book the sports equipment fee online ahead of time, stay under 20kg, and travel with a decent case. It's the maths that tends to change people's minds: two flights' worth of fees plus the small risk of damage, against a rental set waiting for you the moment you land.
