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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Simon Calder

The Platform Trap: Mallorca makes life miserable for the unsuspecting rail passenger

Other people’s public transport is usually fun to unravel. So far this month I have variously been assured on some buses in Lithuania and Poland that I must get a ticket in advance; on others, I had to pay the driver. Some buses were cash only, others insisted on payment by card (or phone).

Flying on from Warsaw to Palma, the driver of the airport bus into town needed €5 in cash – but at least she could sell tickets, unlike increasingly many airport bus services (Lodz in Poland, for example). But last Wednesday evening, I fell foul of the Kafkaesque ticketing trap devised by Mallorca’s otherwise excellent public transport network.

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