We are back to me taking photos again, as I am sure everyone can see
Anyway trip back started off quite well. No sub of plane, so we kept the 4 exit row seats upstairs, Mk2 seats and the entertainment system was working. We were only 1/2 hour late departing, so I was pretty relaxed about making our connection.
Crew was pretty average. Apparently the female FA hadn't worked this route before, so she didn't seem to know what she was doing. e.g. serving Ms FM a prawn risotto with no prawns.
The male FA became more and more stressed to the point where when he asked what I wanted for dessert and I asked him what there was, having misplaced my menu, he snapped "oh, Cheese, ice cream, the usual". I was too intimidated to ask what else, so just had cheese. Later on I found my menu and there had been a nice lemon curd tart - oh well......
We landed in Sydney with 90 minutes to go until the Canberra flight left. Breezed through passport control and raced down to get our luggage - except only non priority tagged luggage was coming off. As economy passengers had yet to arrive, it all piled up and the carousel started having problems. Over an hour later we finally got our luggage - raced to the transfer area, but of course it was too late.
We stood around for two hours as a Qantas guy very bad temperedly sorted everyone out. By this stage there were people from three international flights who had missed connections. Felt very sorry for the people with young children.
We then all trooped over to the Rydges, who did a wonderful job of checking everyone in quickly and then fell into bed.
we were up bright and early to have breakfast. Have never had breakfast there before, as we generally stay before an international flight and just go over to the lounge and have breakfast there. Breakfast was perhaps more about quantity than quality, but I was so hungry it was great.
Back to the International terminal to check in for our domestic flight. Was chatting to a Qantas lady and she said there is often problems with baggage handling. She reckoned that they don't have enough personnel and because it is outsourced, the people have really poor pay and conditions and don't care at all. Whatever the case we are not flying Qantas internationally again. Fortunately for our next trip in April, we have already booked Qatar to New York.
We were soon home and reunited with our fur babies and grand puppies, who seemed in good condition, except perhaps a little overweight!
The Singular included breakfast in the room price as
Off to the airport and looking forward to getting home, although we enjoyed our stay in Santiago - very nice, friendly people.
