At the airport, we visited the Air China Business Class Lounge. They seemed to be going for a mid-90s motif, which made me wonder if they stocked Zima and free AOL installation CDs. I took a quick shower (it wasn't exactly luxurious, but did the trick). We debated whether to change our plans due to…
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Considered changing your plans due to a terrorist threat? You mean one two countries away that had 0% chance of impacting you? That's like saying you considered changing your MIA-DFW flight because the gang violence in Juarez increased.
Your comment about Downton Abbey is downright hilarious! Can't stop giggling. Nice report as usual with your own style. Thank you!
Great post!!! Did you take a photo of Lucky sleeping in the 767 angled business class seat? lol
When did this thing become a "trip"? Flying 5 or 6 planes one after another?
Feel sorry for you guys..
@Andrew (commenter above, not post author)
They did stuff in Warsaw and Beijing. Considering how many internet-flying-people simply turn right around and go home, I'm not going to chide them for not properly experiencing Ethiopia
@James K. Transiting in/out is perhaps the best way to properly experience Ethiopa.
Andrew is pretty humorous for reportedly being a tax guy. His mom is right in her assessment. 😉
How does one sign up for the next Lucky/Andrew B. tour? What fun!
@James, do you think at some point it makes no sense? We make such a big effort to earn our miles and then simply waste so many on something like that? Not mentioning wasted vacation time which is even more precious. For what?
@ Andrew
"@James, do you think at some point it makes no sense? We make such a big effort to earn our miles and then simply waste so many on something like that? Not mentioning wasted vacation time which is even more precious. For what?"
Great points, all of them! They helped remind me, and others for sure, that this piece was written solely to please *YOU*, and nothing else. If flying a lot is not how *YOU* would spend your time, then darn it, it will be judged and judged STRICTLY by...YOU. Thanks!
We will continue, all of us, to read and form our tastes, opinions, and preferences via the blighted worldview of...Andrew, Judgey Unknown Internet Commenter.
bad jokes indeed. what did the 90s do to you? felt like the "trip report about nothing." 😛
Cloud Nine 1 Lounge (C9-1) is a Star Alliance Gold lounge and Cloud Nine 2 Lounge (C9-2) is a Business Class lounge. If you have status but in Economy you cannot access C9-2 and if in Business without status you cannot access C9-1. If you really have a reason to access C9-1, you can probably ask and be let in but they do this to properly balance the load between C9-1 and C9-2 so that one or the other doesn't get overcrowded. It used to be quite unbearable before C9-2 opened last year.
There is also Cloud Nine Lounge Terminal 1 (C9T1) which is a miserable joke for a "lounge". If your departing flight is from T1, you can't access either C9-1 or C9-2 in T2. In that case, I'd rather hang out at the public restaurants in T2 than use C9T1.
@Peter: how much time have you spent in Ethiopia? If quite a significant amount of time, what happened to you that was so unpleasant? Or are you saying that transiting is the best way to visit simply because it's poor / in Africa? Ethiopia is a beautiful country with much to offer to visitors.