We have been idiots and our villa is v near the airport - leave early?

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Because we’re idiots, we didn’t realise the Canaries villa we’d booked is v near the airport. By the time we’d realised it was too late - we wouldn’t have got any refund on flights or villa.

The plane noise is horrendous. Outside you can’t hear each other speak unless you shout. Inside it will definitely wake us up. Looking at flight times, flights continue till 2am and start again at 5.45am.

We’re going to give it a go but should we be prepared to try to change our flights and leave early? What would you do?

This is probably our last trip to the canaries as we’ve had some great times but have just outgrown it. We’re kicking ourselves for this, we’re usually so careful.

Top tip for the future. Check the potential flight paths on flight radar, most smaller airports (one runway) have 2 depending on wind and larger may have more. You can be fairly close but not under the path if you are careful

If you do that for Majorca/Palma you could easily imagine that the resort of Can Pastilla has flights overhead all day. But the airport people are smart and only use the other runway (which goes over the sewage plant) for take-offs and landings over the sea. The one that "points at" the resort doesn't send any planes over it.