Friday, January 16, 2009

FIJI IN DECEMBER

We flew Christmas Eve, Air New Zealand after shuttle to Heathrow by BMI. The Polish wheelchair assistants were given a hard time by a gobby black woman at the transfer section, her attitude stank, I really felt sorry for the young Polish lass who was nearly in tears, perhaps come the revolution we'll get our country back to ourselves and chose our guests like other nations. The flight to LA was arduous and when we arrived our main suitcase was missing, the attitude of Air New Zealand ground staff was contemptible and it was obvious we would not have our case with us in Fiji. I must say the US immigration staff were friendly so no complaints there , the new procedure of on line green form will speed things up even more in future. The trip from LA to Fiji was despite the NZ flight number actually with Air Pacific, a rock bottom rubbish outfit which i would avoid like the plague. Arrived shattered on Boxing day, early hours minus main suitcase, thankfully Mandy packs and splits clothes so we had a selection in the small case. The transfer limo was waiting and Hilton let us in despite early hour of arrival, we even had breakfast.







our 2 bedroom apartment at the Fiji Hilton apartments, very comfy, but restaurant and bar too expensive to contemplate using, good job you could self cater. Temperature in the 90s.












1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nice to see what the front of Fiji Transport DD.209 looks like and too a shot of their FL.188 which is probably only 5 or 6 months old. But, you've got me beat with the Kadar Buksh machine which looks to have had that most unusual windscreen fitted of late. It doesn't seem to be CV.862 because the drivers window is wider... could it be CV.660... thats providing the CV are the letters on the image ;-)
Regards
PT (in Samoa)