The trip over

Monday October 29

We left Sydney on QF at 7:20pm bound for AKL. To our surprise the flight had flat-beds in business class. They even served FC as the pre-departure drink - much better than our QF flight to YVR last January. The dinner was fine. We landed just after midnight and located our pre-booked car/driver - it was something of a rent-a-wreck but was considerably cheaper than a regular taxi as we were to find out the next day. We checked into the Sebel Quay West and crashed out.

Tuesday October 30

We got up a bit late due to the 2 hour time difference and walked over to the Hotel Mercure dodging rain squalls. We had brekkie here as they honoured the Accor Advantage Plus card - making breakfast half-price. Back at the hotel we pretty much dagged about as the rainy weather precluded going for a walk. We left for the airport a bit early, planning to have a snack in the lounge for lunch. 

Our flight to PPT departed on time at 4:10pm - as expected the seats were non-flat but quite OK. The service was excellent - FC was flowing. We had dinner and dozed until landing in PPT at 10PM on Monday Oct 29. (Crossing the international date-line when travelling a short distance is very confusing indeed). We breezed though C&I and met our pre-booked taxi for the 15 minute drive to our hotel, Maneva Suites. We checked in and tried to crash out around 11:30pm. We both had a very restless and very short night.


© Patricia Schafer 2018