Let's move on to Lufthansa.
I was excited to try LH F for the first time but maybe even more excited about their FRA ground services.
Although my flight was scheduled for 5:55pm I decided to spend the night before at Sheraton FRA airport (connected via bridge to the terminals) so can make the most of what my F ticket has to offer.
Ok so I have a bucket list of stuff I want to do at least once in my life. One of those things is to drive a high performance car on the Autobahn, any motorhead's dream.
Avis has an agreement with Lufthansa offering LH F, LX F pax and HON members to book a Porsche at FRA for three hours or 150km include petrol and insurance for €99.
Sure anyone can rent Porsche in the USA or even here in Australia for about $500 per day but considering speed limits are set at 110kph it's a bit pointless.
So I got up early on the day excited to go and pick up my car which I booked online a week ago. The booking process was very easy, just need to make sure to present TWO credit cards for deposit (gold or higher) and it's recommend to have the boarding pass as well so before going to pick up the car I went to check in.
The lady who issued my BP was kind enough to call Avis and let them know I'm coming.
Can't say the check in process was anything special, certainly nothing like SQ in SIN but it was fast and efficient, very German!
Went down two floors and walked towards rental cars area. When I got to Avis there were three long queues of people waiting patiently. All the staff were busy with customers so what should I do? Should I play DYKWIA cut the queues and say "hey, I'm here to pick up my Porsche"? somehow it didn't feel right doing that in Germany
so I waited about 20 minutes until my turn came and then it took another 15 minutes to complete all the necessary forms. On this package access fee is down only to €1,500 and can't be reduced to 0 even for extra pay. After my two CCs were swiped for deposits I was finally given the key.
Avis very kindly put a list or recommend routes on it's website to maximise the three hours experience.
I've downloaded the route that seemed to have the most stretches of highway, after all I'm here for the speed not for the scenery
I kindly asked one of the staff to insert the route into the car's GPS and equally as important, change the language to English.
All set ready to go
Took my time to adjust to the car and driving on the left side while cruising at comfortable speeds of 150-160kph. That was until I noticed all kind of cheap Japanese cars shamelessly passing by me at incredible speeds. Then I finally understood it's time to man up and pressed the accelerator all the way down
Hard to describe the feeling but all I can say is no amusement park in the world (and I've been to some wild ones) can match the adrenaline rush.
Doing a pit stop near the Opel factory.
The problem with driving so fast is that 150km finish very quickly. I could keep going a bit more (the rate is €0.99 per km after the first 150) but instead decide to go back and check the F lounge.
