Headed Home

30 April 2010

Well, it's over. One of the most interesting, and certainly the most unique, vacations we have taken. Something completely different mixed in with something very similar. Regardless, it was over, and it was time to go home.

The packing was complete and we made it out to the cab at the prearranged time of 7:00 am. Jorges, the cabbie from the night before, gave the fare to his son who was waiting patiently. The drive to the airport took around 45 minutes, which unfortunately meant arriving about three minutes behind two buses bringing people from the resorts. This left us almost at the end of the line, and with no reserved seats, little chance of sitting together. However, good luck found us a window seat together in the second from last row.

It was a fairly annoying flight all round. First off, after several years of buying upgraded seats , it was incredibly uncomfortable with the reduced leg room (my fault for not booking earlier, and the mistake will not be repeated). In addition, the young girl to the right had broke up with her boyfriend on the trip (not to be judgemental, but from the looks of him her parents would be happy). The girl was extremely rude to everyone, and sighed and moaned and belly ached all the way back. And on top of everything, with maybe 12 people under the age of 20 on a plane of 300, "Alvin and the Chipmunks" was the movie played. Come on Sunwing, use your head, serve the customers who paid the way. You do this almost every trip. Maybe I was just annoyed that vacation was over.

Notwithstanding comments above, Sunwing is a well run airline, and I would recommend flying with them to anyone. The meals are not bad, they are very friendly and accomodating, and work hard to stay on schedule.

Back at the airport in Toronto, the bags came through relatively quickly. I moved up to to get them, and said "excuse me ladies" to a couple of women chatting at the conveyors. One of them looked at me with a sour face and said "you could have said excuse me". My reply, well......" Ah yes, back in the big city.

Guess that ends the day by day description of the trip. One of the interesting things of this web site is you can, for a very low cost, have a book made of the blog. This will be a nice reminder of the journey. So, the first order of business is to do some editing (it is scary how many spelling and grammatical errors I made using the netbook) and add some pictures.