Erin Explores Travel

Arrival in IBIZA!

On Monday, I woke up to take my last final and then rushed around to finish packing and get ready for Ibiza!!! Our flight left around 6, so we left Oestrich-Winkel on the 2pm train. We took it to Mainz and there we caught a bus to the Frankfurt-Hahn Airport.

Airport Security

We got there, checked our bags and proceeded to security. There we ran into some trouble. We didn’t have our liquids in a plastic bag. I thought the only liquid I had was my foundation; when the lady asked I said just this. Then after I walked through, the lady stopped and and said you have more liquids and I was like, I do? She was like yes, and she was very rude about it. I had forgot that I had a tiny bottle of lotion and my contact solution in my purse! They made me go buy a plastic Ziplock bag to put them in. My friends got stopped because theirs weren’t in a plastic bag either. Although mine were in a make-up bag with a zipper, which I think would be more protection than a stupid little Ziplock! Anyway, we finally got through security and then we sat and waited for what seemed like forever. Finally we were able to board the flight. Luckily, there were plenty of open seats, so we got to sit together!

First Night in Ibiza

We arrived in Ibiza around 8 pm. It was already dark and so we headed straight to our apartment. While we were waiting for the bus, some guy came up to us and offered us a ride saying he worked for some type of taxi service. He explained how long the bus was going to take blah blah blah. We politely declined; this guy looked totally sketch! Then he just walked around and kept watching us… very creepy! Finally the bus got there, however we were going to have to switch busses later to get to our apartment. After getting off the first bus, we had trouble finding the bus stop for the next one we were supposed to get on. We had asked the lady before we got off the first bus, but we eventually found out that people in Spain cannot give good directions! We finally found it and it was like around 10 pm. We were waiting and waiting and waiting. There were a bunch of taxis sitting across the street, so we asked how much it would cost to take us to where we needed to go. He said 22 Euros, so split between the 4 of us we decided it was worth it. We just wanted to get there!

Our Apartment in Ibiza

Finally we got checked in and we decided to walk the strip to get some dinner and checkout the stores. And guess what we had for our first meal in Spain? Doner! lol There was this clothing store that looked really cool and really cheap, but it wasn’t open. 🙁

We bought some food and juice for breakfast. We had a kitchen so we could keep everything cold and we could cook! We also bought some Sangria to try! Oh, I forgot to mention, we had to use the room key card to keep the electricity working… it was so weird! Then we started to take showers and realized the shower thing was broken. The guy came up to look at it, and he got it to work, it was just hard to pull up. Finally we got to sleep.