“As soon as we settled for the six-hour flight to Bali, our cabin manager announced just how fortunate we were to be sitting in a ‘brand new Airbus A321neo’.”
Talk about setting yourself up to fail. As soon as we settled for the six-hour Jetstar flight to Bali, our cabin manager assaulted the airwaves with just how fortunate we were to be sitting in the “brand new Airbus A321neo, only six weeks old and with extra stowage room in the overhead lockers”. Perhaps the marketing was wasted on us in row 38 as all available space was occupied when we reached our seats and the crew clumsily shoved our gear into a cavity above row 34.
Some advice: don’t buy seats near the rear of the A381. Conditions in the cabin are already cramped and having the aft toilets in the heart of the food and beverage service area created congestion for much of the flight. And, in a final piece of shameless self-promotion, the CM accredited our early arrival in Denpasar, not to the persistent tailwinds en route but “to the sheer excellence of our wonderful cabin crew”.). In Korea, we wanted to rent a car. Having travelled in many parts of the world and rented vehicles without anyone ever looking at our international licences, we did not get one this time. We were completely unable to rent a car in Seoul without such a licence.
Added to that, the configuration of the seats is such that you may have to climb over sleeping passengers if you get up at night – not easy if you are elderly. It was such a relief to fly the final leg home on Qantas.I have just returned from an absolutely wonderful five-night Canadian Empress cruise along the St Lawrence River from Kingston to Ottawa with my Canadian girlfriend of 25 years .
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