Ryanair ✈️ How bad can they be?

It looks like I’m getting the OG Ryanair experience today. Flight is delayed and there is a bucks party group sinking plenty of beers (and potentially a few lines in the toilet - why else would 2 straight men be sharing a toilet cubicle?) led by their buck in a pink panther onesie before the flight. No filming on this flight as have already been told off by a hot Spanish security guard. Oh well.

The inbound aircraft is landing in 15mins when boarding ‘commences’. I say commences as it’s really just getting everyone lined up. There is no plane to board yet. I line up with everyone else and can’t help but notice that the ‘priority’ lane is 3 times the length of the non priority line. Seems like they sold the priority bundle to 3/4 of the flight (insert Melanie from Come Fly with me selling speedy boarding passes here) 😂. We wait for about 45mins. I take a seat again 10 mins in while everyone else obediently waits in this currently pointless line.

With the plane here I board the Ryanair, wait…, Lauda A320 across a hot Spanish tarmac. Once on board everyone who didn’t pay for a seat played a game of seat swapping to sit with their travel companions. I’m surprised how fast we all get on board and soon we’re on our way to Mallorca. I get a great view of the city of Zaragoza as we climb out, taking a few window pics as we fly past.

It’s an uneventful flight. The seat is a little hard but I’ve had worse but the legroom is good. I’m guessing the A320 by Lauda is a better Ryanair experience than their own 737’s? I buy an overpriced coke and some salt and vinegar Pringle’s cause it’s dinner time. We soon chuck a right turn over Barcelona and start our descent into Palma.

As the island’s rough terrain shoot’s up from the Mediterranean Sea we come in for a quick landing into PMI airport. A Spanish guy in Madrid said that Mallorca is more German than Spanish and by the number of Condor and Eurowings planes here I might agree. My bag is a ready on the carousel by the time I get to baggage claim in a very busy airport.

10 minutes and €17 later my taxi drops me at my hotel. I’d looked at booking a transfer but it was €60+!! Take a taxi - much cheaper! I’m here for the night mainly because either here or Turkey was the only places with flights to my next destination. Time to find some dinner and do a little bit of exploring before bed. Look at me adjusting to Spanish bedtimes!Read more