Monday, June 12, 2017

Day 41, 23rd May Flights Home

Day 41

Up today and packed ready to leave for home. We ordered an Uber as we had cancelled the super shuttle after the carry on from the airport to the hotel. All other super shuttle franchises in the other U.S cities have been great, but Uber and Lyft here are really good and easy to use since its loaded against a credit card. Graeme likes the fact we don't have to have the cash for them.

Arrived at San Fran airport and ready for our flight to LAX.  That was about 2 hours but the flight ended up being delayed a few times cos of air traffic in LAX, so took off 2 hours late. Luckily we had allowed 6 hours between the two flights, so we didn't risk missing the big flight home.


Just as well in the end as the check in for Qantas wasn't open until 4 hours prior at LAX and the business class line was longer than the premium economy - surprising how many passengers turn up super early, there must have been about 100 economy passengers there waiting early too.

Got through fine and hoping for a better flight than the debacle on the way over! Went into the lounge and relaxed for a couple of hours, apart from when Graeme dropped a full glass of coke down my front! Lucky there were showers or it would have been a sticky night! The food in LAX was surprisingly sparse and not so good, thought it would have been great being such a big hub, but Qantas seem to be cutting back on everything the staff told us, so maybe the lounge is affected too. But still was nice to sit in the quiet an relax.


Onto the plane - 16 3/4 hrs home with no issues and very comfortable yay! we both got about 4-5 hours sleep, then a 2 hour wait for the shuttle at Melbourne airport  when we land until the gippy shuttle arrived. We were glad to get home - lovely to see your home with a new eye and back to 2 very excited schnauzers!!
Cheers to an awesome trip- there wasn't one city we didn't enjoy in the States.

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