Quote from MoL himself?
What was your worst travel experience?
Without a doubt, it was a trip to Bucharest back in the early days of Ryanair. Travelling in those Eastern Bloc countries before the fall of communism was an ordeal. You could only get in to Romania if you were travelling on business, and we were leasing a load of BAC-111s from the national airline, TAROM.
For some unexplained reason our flight was diverted to Timișoara and then… well, people talk about Ryanair’s customer service ethos, but this took the biscuit. We landed at midnight and were marched silently into the terminal building by machine gun-toting guards. They locked the doors, turned off the lights and left us there all night.
The following morning, without anyone telling us where we were going, we were marched onto a bus, then on to a train to endure a six-hour trip to Bucharest – itself a dreadful place to visit. Back then, all foreigners were put into the Intercontinental Hotel. In those days there were no lights, the food was atrocious, the beer even worse, and it was full of hookers and God knows what else.
I've never had a beer that was full of hookers!