So our trip is done and we are recovering from 27 hours spent in airports and airplanes to get home. Today is all about laundry and resting up. Not a great trip home due to so many things. Among them were weather (Denver airport closed for a time as we were attempting to land so we got to circle for a while), late flights and construction at airports made this a really long day.
I wasn’t going to add this but I want to see it in print so feel free to skip it. This is what our travel home day was like.
- Woke up at 3:15 am onboard Celebrity Reflection (As usual, couldn’t sleep).
- Left Reflection at 6:45 am (early).
- Arrived at Dublin Airport at 7:35.
- Sat in shared business class lounge with Bob and Holly until our flight to London Heathrow left at 10:50 am.
- Arrived London Heathrow, Terminal 5 at 12:20 pm.
- Transferred to London Heathrow Terminal 3 for flight to Denver. Took the better part of an hour.
- Sat in British Terminal 3 Business lounge until 2:40 when we boarded our flight to Denver.
- Arrived in Denver at 6:15 pm Denver time after circling due to weather.
- Stood in line for almost an hour at Customs in Denver as all inbound flights had been held for weather and then all arrived at the same time. It was a bloody zoo.
- Due to the fact that we could not get a Business Class award flight direct to Seattle we flew to Denver (instead of home to Seattle) we had to now check all our luggage back in for a short flight to Seattle (that we paid for…in coach) that was supposed to leave at 7:35 pm.
- Due to all the late arrivals, our flight didn’t leave until 9:06 pm.
- Arrived in Seattle at 10:55 pm.
- After getting our luggage we grabbed a Lyft and wound up getting home at 11:45.
So that was our day. Too long. And all to get award seats from BA via Alaska Miles. Which will bring me to a future post on finding award seats in the near future. I promise.
And now to the reason for this post. The schedule of what is to come this week. My plan is to post Iceland day 1 tomorrow afternoon, Iceland day 2 on Tuesday, Iceland day 3 and 4 on Friday. Hope that keeps you all up to date without overwhelming anyone with too much to read.
Technology doesn’t address everything – for example, air travel still sucks. —Brad Feld
Agree with Gail. Boil the kettle, pour a nice cup of English tea, sit in a comfy chair, and……relax
Welcome home Bellomos! See you sometime at the office. Glad your trip was fun and you two are back!
We can commiserate with the ‘air travel still sucks’ quote. Return flight to TO (YYZ) from Honolulu (HNL) was sooooooooo loooong! That was fall of 2014. This time we are cruising to and from Hawaii and only have 1 flight between YYZ and LAX.