With BA being on strike, we lost our connection out of Heathrow. Lucklily, as soon as the strike was back on, Cheri got on-line and secured seats from Gatwick to Amsterdam. Yeah! The trip is still on.
The bad news is that Gatwick is not too close to Paddington and with a 7 am flight we were out of the house at 3.45 am! No mind...we were going to Indonesia! So we got to Gatwick, faced off to BA agent who was clueless and asking things like, "what is the 3 letter code for where you are going? what class are you in - j?" She didn't instill confidence, especially when we got her to book our bags all the way through to Bali.
We hopped to Amsterdam without incident. Once there, we connected with a Cathay Pacific agent who was wonderful! She doubled checked our records and made sure all our luggage was destined to arrive with us!
We hopped onto the 777 from Amsterdam to Hong Kong. Oh la la! It was one of those 777 with herring bone business class seats. These have the most comfortable beds and a wide screen Tv with all kinds of movies and Bose cancellation headphones. Jackpot!
The good news - we could sleep. The bad news....well it was 2 pm our body clock time and sleep was elusive at best. So we both dozed and got a few hours, but not nearly as much as we hoped for.
We arrived in Hong Kong and popped into the first class lounge. Cheri sniffed around and found the showers. And what showers they were. Just picture us...we'd been up for the better part of 24 hours. These showers had giant heads and it felt like you were in a rain forest during a heavy down pour. So refreshing!!
After that - the final leg of the flights; a four hour and 20 minute flight to Denpasar (Bali)! We both slept alot on that flight.
When we arrived, we were met on the jet bridge by an agent from Wakatobi, our dive company. She cut all the lines and red tape, got us a visa, cleared customs and we were out in about 30 minutes. The average transit time is usually 2 to 3 hours. Yippee!
As we exited the customs area, we were met by our driver from Pure Bali and we were off to see the country side.
Enjoy!
Cheri & John
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