Watch this business class trip report on board a Royal Jordanian A320 if you’d like to see what the full Royal Jordanian experience is like, from the airport to the on board food and then to the HORRIBLE transit hotel that they put me up at. Truly 🤮

*Whoops! The menu shown in this video shows a page mistakenly from my next flight from AMM-BKK (they’re the same format). What I describe in this video is accurate.

🎥 In This Video:
-Athens International Airport
-Swissport Lounge
-Airline History & Routes
-Boarding & First Impressions
-Full Seat Tour
-Business Class Lunch Service
-Take off & Landing Clips
-DISGUSTING Transit Hotel

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Fare Paid: $1036.00 USD (ATH-AMM-BKK)
Class: Business Class
Inclusions: Seat Selection, Lounges, Transit Hotel, 2x 7kg Carry On, 2x 30kg Check in

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↪ Video Chapters ↩
0:00 Driving to Athens Airport
01:25 Airport Terminal & Check In
03:10 Heading to Swissport Lounge
04:20 Terminal Vibes
04:51 Royal Jordanian Full Route Map
05:02 Our Flight & Gate
05:58 Boarding & Flight Stats
06:37 First Impressions on Board
07:00 Full Seat Tour
08:11 Welcome Amenities & Entertainment
08:32 Push back & Taxi
09:06 Spool up, Take off & Airport Stats
10:19 Lunch Service with Menu
11:22 Bathroom Amenities
11:34 Final Approach Views over Israel
12:21 Dirt Devils on Final Descent & Landing
13:53 Deplaning
14:15 Transit Hotel from Hell
17:08 The Flip Flop Score

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46 Comments

  1. Great content as always! If you have any reviews or information about traveling to Amman/Jordan I'd love to see it- I plan on going soon. thanks!

  2. the short time for check in is an issue in Athens as it meant to open 3 hours prior but they are always late. However, security queues are normally reasonable for non shengen flights and the airport is small . Agents are normally chatting and could not be bothered to expedite things, typical Greek "hospitality"

  3. The lounge wasn't THAT much better. I spent 10 hours in there in November and it was full of birds. The aviary type not female human.

  4. That hotel room looked worse than short stay hotels in the back streets of the far east … you poor guy. Btw "dirt devils" should be dust devils

  5. Iraqi Airways will start flying to Kuala Lumpur from February on their new 787-8. Try it!

  6. Thanks for showing this. I’m hoping that women traveling solo will have the sense to stay safely in the airport if passing through this country or similar ones. Quatar always has cheap flights, but with the caveat of being stuck in Dohar for a long layover. No thanks 😉

  7. Great review as always and suffice to say amusing but thankfully it wasnt me(another one for the team )
    I flew them from AMM JFK and found them to be just ok ( Crown class )- nothing out of the ordinary and the food was sort of similar, it was delicious, bedding all ok as well and the crew friendly enough – it was on award points – I’m not sure I would have been happy parting with actual cash though

  8. The transit hotel was a way for them to torture you. 🤣
    And yes you should've stayed at the airport lounge.

  9. Ah, your turn of phrase had me chuckling! You reminded me of the “roach hotel” we stayed in in Miami courtesy of TWA. The room in which they put a 2 year old had the power plug hanging out of the wall, exposing the live terminals! When we photographed it, there was a cockroach on the power point! The room was filthy, one bed had clearly been urinated upon AFTER it had been made up. I do not miss TWA!

  10. We flew RJ MAD-AMM-BKK round trip in Business in October and December 2023 and enjoyed the service and lounge in Amman. Our layover was not long enough to be offered the hotel, which was a good thing, I guess! RJ’s fare was very low, making it a good value. It isn’t Emirates, to be sure, but it is a solid 3-star biz class product. I would absolutely fly with them again!

  11. Hahahaha, that shower head. Hahahahaha! Sorry about your terrible experience mate, but damn that was funny.😆

  12. 6:49
    Because of COVID in 2020 the Saudi Gulf Airlines stopped their entire business of flights and they sold all of their aircrafts, two of them were gone to Amman and now these two aircrafts were operated by Royal Jordanian. Saudi Gulf airline was the national Saudi airline that was operating in Dammam Airport from the end of 2016 up until 2020 (corona pandemic).

  13. 4:52 I believe they launched that route marketed to Westerners traveling to SE Asia to be competitive

  14. So I was travelling economy class from 🇮🇳 Mumbai to 🇨🇦 Toronto with 🇪🇬 Egypt air. I had 20 hours of layover and Cairo. They gave us a five star hotel. They gave us amazing food and honestly I cannot complain.

  15. Up till recently, their BKK flights continued on to KUL. They also used to serve SIN. Suppose COVID caused airlines all over to rationalise their ops. In 2010s, RJ underwent a transformation which I have to say agrees with them. They have signified this change with a small "red swish" on their engine cowlings, which I'm glad… Because they did not tweak their livery – one of the most stunning brandings ever. I've always wondered about filming on RJ because of their air marshals.

  16. oh man that shower head at the end got me dying of laughter… 😭😭😭

  17. Transit hotels… hm… recent experience with Xiamen Air – in Xiamen 😊- was very good in fact.

  18. That hotel is just plain weird. When I was staying there a few years ago it was early April. It was already hot weather in Amman and the room was stifling. But the hotel had a rule that they weren't going to have air conditioning until April 15th. Also the window was bolted shut. I finally convinced the hotel to unbolt the window and take it completely off. Me and the guy across the hall agreed to leave our doors for a few hours and create a cross flow of air to get the temperature down. They also made me pay for the internet. And for me also, the shuttle was indifferently scheduled.

  19. WOW…..Totally awesome flight review there Kevin, happy new year 2024 btw., Royal Jordanian could be described as the baby Emirates Airlines. I once flew from Rome to Athen's back in 1986, it's a while ago now but i think the airline i flew on was called Olympic., and the aircraft may have been a Boeing 707✈

  20. Over 20 years ago I flew coach class on Royal Jordanian from Los Angeles to Bahrain. It was a very odd flight path, LAX-ORD-VIE-AMM (one flight number). After a three hour layover in Amman, I flew on to BAH. Back then RJ was fantastic, I have not flown them since but after watching your video, I might consider them again, but without the transit hotel.

  21. Great Video. I liked the ATH to Amm and the AMM to BKK video as well. I am so sorry for the hotel experience and I hope the hotrel management would see this and do something about it. I have been to this hotel many years ago and I do not think any updates were done to this property. Amman has many very nice hotels so it should not make people not visit the beautiful city of Amman. Just do not stay at this hotel.

  22. Royal Jordanian is not royal in anyway.. they have unfriendly staff I stoped flying them due to poor onetime departures and rude cabin service and quality of passengers.

  23. The hotel got nothing to do with the airline, you just love any free stuff, the hotel under Renavation after water flood so it’s not cigaret , be responsible 😂 anyhow you got small numbers of vower . You see how you lose viewers 😂 learn

  24. Correction at 4:15 ; the airlines named after the king’s first wife “Queen Alia” NOT his first daughter

  25. Hello! I’m so happy that I found you! This is my first viewing of your content. I really enjoyed it. Unlike some other travel blogs where you have to read along instead of having a soothing voice to listen to (I do not enjoy reading along). Yours was fabulous, informative and funny at times. As others mentioned, the shower experience had me laughing out loud 😂, thank you! Well I’ll keep following and see where you take to me next. Best wishes and safe travels! ❤️👏🏻👋🏻😀🤗👍✈️🛩️

  26. It’s not props for the RJ maintenance crew because maintenance doesn’t fly on planes , it’s props for the maintenance crew in ATHENS AIRPORT

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