Good thing I already got my car

After getting my suitcase, I walked out and located a Thomas Cook representative. Package travel is the worst form of travel, and the worst part of package travel are transfers between the airport and the hotel, as the transfer bus always has to visit 10 other hotels before arriving at mine. So I was happy to tell him that I had a rental car and sadly could not use their valuable transfer service. I walked to the nearby garage where I picked up my rental Seat Leon. Accordung to the rental agreement, the car was without damage, but both the front and rear bumpers were covered with scratches. As I complained to the representative about them, he happily entered them into the rental agreement without even looking at the car. Hmmm, I wounder how many generations of unsuspecting customers paid for the same scratches over and over...


Outside of the terminal


The car I got. Had only some 5000km on it, but felt more like 100000km


Freedom at last!

After a 10-minute drive, I arrived at the Torre del Mar hotel where I always stay in Ibiza. It is probably the uncoolest hotel on the whole island and looks like a 1970s museum from the inside, but in the absense of really good and affortable hotels, it is perfect for me. It has great sea view rooms with balconies, good air condition and free WiFi, no loud animation, an own parking lot, is located outside of the Ibiza town with it's traffic jams, and has a boat connection to the Ibiza town offering a very spectacular ride to the port of Ibiza. Every other location on the island is easily reached by car. The Playa d'en Bossa beach is just a 5-minute walk away, and getting to my favorite ses Salines beach requires a 10-minute drive.


Cat without a tail outside the hotel. Will be eying the breakfast buffet with suspicion.

I asked if they had free rooms despite the early hour, and 10 minutes later I was enjoying the view from my room.


My room. The sea view is terrific - you have to lean out from the balcony to see land on Ibiza


View from the balcony towards the old town

I will spend my time in Ibiza fighting the world hunger, helping the poor, solving the financial crisis, stopping wars, preserving the environment and working on a number of other important matters

Thanks for reading!