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Not much to report until I arrived at the airport ready to check in to go to Fiji. When I arrived at the counter it transpired that I did not have a ticket!!!!! The woman at Queenstown had taken the ticket for this leg of my trip as well by mistake, so I was stood at check in for ages while someone went off and checked the protocol. Eventually I was checked in and waited for the boarding time.
Just prior to boarding, the staff made an announcement asking people to come off the flight as they were over booked. For this inconvenience they were offering overnight accomodation, meals and $600 cash, as well as a guaranteed seat on the 1100 flight the next day. It really would be rude not to - so offloaded I was, along with about 12 other people.
The process from here was quite slow and tedious - back through customs, bags found in the hold and collected from baggage reclaim, queue at Customer Services to get our cash and be re-issued with a ticket for the next day. This again proved troublesome as I had no ticket in the first place, so they improvised and I was issued with a photocopy of one of the other tickets I had and the details were hand written over the top! Very official.
From here we were all herded an the shuttle bus to the hotel, which was far and away the nicest place I've stayed for a while.
One of the other "offloaders" was a very eccentric (or is that mad?) woman from Canada called Lori-Fay. She bore an uncanny resemblance to the Wicked Witch of the West - big frizzy hair under a blcak hat, black eye make up everywhere on her face, spice girl boots, gold sarong open to the waist and a white plastic mac. She was also very loud and kept asking ridiculous questions - even the Air New Zealand woman was losing her patience.
Once I'd had some food with another offloader, called Lousie from Ireland, I decided to have a quick go on the internet. There were only 2 computers and the other one was being used as well, when Lori Fay headed our way. I kept my head down and she collared the other couple and asked them to check out a website for her. It turned out to be her very own site, featuring pictures of her scantily clad and looking frankly, very scary. I was busy having a good ogle over their shoulders and it was all I could do to stop my jaw from hanging open and then I could feel the giggles rising, so I made my escape.
Off to bed in a huge double with white cotton sheets, whilst watching satelite TV and drinking Diet Coke from the mini bar.......heaven. S xx
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