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Lagos, Nigeria
Lagos: Detty December, and the fare curve that comes with it
Fares climb from mid-October. Sorted now, £547 return — with the hotel quoted in the same message.
- Best booking window
- Book by September for December travel. 10–14 weeks out the rest of the year.
- Visa
- UK passport holders need a visa in advance. Do not rely on visa-on-arrival — allow three weeks.
- December
- £900–£1,400 return
- Low season
- £520–£780 return
- Hotel, per night
- from £58
The one thing that sets your Lagos fare
December. Nigerian diaspora travel peaks so hard that the fare curve stops behaving like a normal route. A seat that costs £560 in February costs well over £1,000 in the third week of December, and it does not soften closer to the date — it hardens.
If you are going for Christmas, treat September as your deadline. Not a suggestion, a deadline.
Where we usually beat the public price
This is a consolidator route. The trade net fares available on Lagos are meaningfully better than anything on a comparison site, particularly in the December band. We check the live search and the consolidator on every Lagos enquiry and quote whichever wins — and tell you which it was.
Getting in
Arrivals can be slow and the traffic out of the airport is worse. We prebook a car that meets you inside arrivals, because 4am at Murtala Muhammed is not where you want to start negotiating.