Well kiddies, it seems I spoke a little soon. We are still in Heathrow. We did make it all the way onto the plane yesterday, but after waiting an hour for our departure slot an ''engineering issue" was discovered and the plane was grounded for repairs. I guess it was lucky we took so long on the runway or it may have been discovered inflight which may have been a bit more of a problem!
Any hoo, we have spent the night in a hotel by the airport (4 star, meaning that Brett did manage to get his longed for full English breakkie before we left) while the plane was being fixed and are scheduled to depart about 1pm today for Hong Kong. It means that we have lost our overnight in Hong Kong, but the Air NZ staff have been fabulous this morning to try to help us to get at least a few hours there today. They have checked an additional bag in for us - so I have offloaded all the heavy stuff I was carrying about - and have arranged for Hong Kong staff to meet us off this flight with boarding passes for our next flight. They will also intercept our checked in baggage and get it to the next flight. That means we will not have to check in in Hong Kong airport, but will be able to go into Hong Kong (with only Bretts carry on bag) and will have as much time as possible before we need to be back at the airport and straight to Departures. Well, thats the theory anyway.
Even if that plan doesn't come off, we have had such good luck so far with close calls that we are pretty relaxed about it all. It is disappointing to miss Hong Kong, but at least it is on the way home and not in the middle - which would potentially have caused real issues. I already have my Gucci, but Brett may miss out on his Rolex. Never mind, he has plenty of other goodies to keep him happy! And, of course, we are able to use the Koru Lounge here which means we are very comfortable and have free food and drinks etc.
So no Hong Kong photos today, but I have posted up the London photos that I didn't have time to post yesterday.
Any hoo, we have spent the night in a hotel by the airport (4 star, meaning that Brett did manage to get his longed for full English breakkie before we left) while the plane was being fixed and are scheduled to depart about 1pm today for Hong Kong. It means that we have lost our overnight in Hong Kong, but the Air NZ staff have been fabulous this morning to try to help us to get at least a few hours there today. They have checked an additional bag in for us - so I have offloaded all the heavy stuff I was carrying about - and have arranged for Hong Kong staff to meet us off this flight with boarding passes for our next flight. They will also intercept our checked in baggage and get it to the next flight. That means we will not have to check in in Hong Kong airport, but will be able to go into Hong Kong (with only Bretts carry on bag) and will have as much time as possible before we need to be back at the airport and straight to Departures. Well, thats the theory anyway.
Even if that plan doesn't come off, we have had such good luck so far with close calls that we are pretty relaxed about it all. It is disappointing to miss Hong Kong, but at least it is on the way home and not in the middle - which would potentially have caused real issues. I already have my Gucci, but Brett may miss out on his Rolex. Never mind, he has plenty of other goodies to keep him happy! And, of course, we are able to use the Koru Lounge here which means we are very comfortable and have free food and drinks etc.
So no Hong Kong photos today, but I have posted up the London photos that I didn't have time to post yesterday.
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