if you are not in a hotel with internet access try using an internet cafe. you should be able to get your ticket printed out there.
note, if you are flying ryanair that they will make you pay to use the normal checkin and you will have to pay even more extra for priority boarding

last two trips with ryanair - Milan and Rome - it was easy to chevk-in online at an internet cafe - cost about €1.50 on eac h occassion to print off the boarding cards

Thanks for your help. I am jetting off tomorrow and shall take your sensible advice and find an internet cafe in the resort.

There are no facilities to print boarding passes at Murcia airport, there are at least two internet cafes near the airport in Los Alcazares, the two closest i can think of are both in Avda. Rio Nalon, The Post Room is underneath the 525 hotel in the arcade

I've been in this position a few times. I leave my details with a relative at home who does online check in for me using my reference number.
You obviously don't get a boarding pass but I've never needed one. I just hand over my passport and reference number at checkin.

Which airport lets you through without a boarding pass - I'd like to know so that I can avoid it!! Are you sure you're not confusing online booking with online check-in?

No, I 'm not confused. I've done this several times. The last time was with BA. I recently travelled Edinburgh - London City - Edinburgh. On the outward journey I checked in online at home. On the way back I didn't have online access at my hotel so my other half did it for me. He went into my BA account on the morning of my flight. checked in, picked my seat and texted me the reference number. When I got to LCY I went straight to the front at the check in desk with this and they gave me my boarding pass. As I had already checked in I didn't need to join the queue.
There are lots of people who can check in online but don't have a printer. Some airlines are quite used to this. I don't know what airline the OP was referring to.

BA will let you do this - though it can and does upset passengers who are in the queue because they tend to see this as 'queue jumping' rather than online check-in and I have seen BA staff at Edinburgh and Gatwick insist that if you have checked-in on-line but don't have a boarding pass then you must still join the queue like everybody else to collect it. It can still save time because if you are checking hold baggage the staff at the bag drop-off can issue the boarding pass.

But I doubt that you'll get away with this with Ryanair, and I think that Murcia (the original poster's destination) is used by them, and if she is flying with them then she really is better off using the internet cafe option. Ryanair only allow on-line check-in for passengers not wanting to check hold baggage in and the whole point of it is to reduce the use of check-in desks and save costs. At most airports airlines are charged 'rent' on the check-in desks they use and Michael O'Leary has made it clear that being able to move over to on-line check-in for all passengers is their aim because it means that they will not only be able to save on staffing costs but on renting check-in desks too. I can see the day when Ryanair moves from being no-frills to self-service until you actually board the plane and with no hold baggage facilities because that way he won't have to pay for baggage handling services either and he can also fill the hold with freight

SM

Actually Michael O'Leary has already said he wants to do that! He said people should fly without luggage and buy clothes from cheap places (Primark may have been mentioned) when they arrive.

I can see BA, especially on business, routes being flexible but not Ryanair.

I have just checked in on-line for the first time,(Ryan Air) for some reason my boarding pass wouldn't print, so I had to submit my details again to reprint,then with the help of my teenage daughter managed to print off the boarding pass.Now i'm wishing I had paid to check in as i'm worried about doing the same for the return journey and not being able to get internet access, which i didn't realise you had to do until I read this post. Maggie

Maggie - don't worry. If you can't check in on-line at your destination you can still check in at the return airport - but you will pay extra

Thanks for all the advice. I am back safe and sound from my short trip to Murcia.

I travelled with Ryanair from East Midlands. I managed quite easily to do the online check in and print a boarding pass at an internet cafe in Mazarron. It couldn't have been simpler. The hardest bit was asking the Spanish owner if they had a printer!

Security was very tight at Murcia and there is no way I would have got near the plane without a boarding pass. I also had priority boarding and they were very strict with the queue jumpers who tried to get on without this.

Now that I have successfully managed I shall opt for this option everytime!

I also managed okay with on line check in on return journey,thanks to a friend.I did go in to an internet cafe but never seen any printers,i seen some people at the airport who hadn't done it and were charged 18 euro.Maggie

I am flying with Ryanair to Dublin and staying 2 nights, if you can book in from 2 days before your flight, does that mean I will be able to check in for both journeys before I leave home?? Anyone got experience of this?
Thanks

you should be able to do this without a problem. i've checked in for a 1800 hour flight at 0730 2 days before.
i think it goes by date and not time ie 2 days not 48hours.

I've just checked in on line for a flight tomorrow and it has also let me check in for my return flight for Saturday 29th March that has made things a lot easier as I won't need to find somewhere to print off return part.Maggie