Our flight from Easter Island to Santiago was departing at 2:55PM, and the hotel dropped us off at the airport at 12:40PM, which seemed awfully early. To enter the terminal you had to put your bag through an x-ray, though the person manning the belt didn't seem to be paying any attention. As you'd expect,…
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@Ben: Think you might have added a zero to much, I didn't remember it was that cheap.
There is also a cafe if you turn right in the check in hall, when i was there it was a supper busy day with 6 planes around the airport (private jets and one of those private jet travel tours) so we weren't allowed inside until like 45 minutes before check in.
In the description of the turkey dish you have written "chicken". So which one is it?
@Lew - I thought the same thing!! That's no mistake that Lucky included the pic of the hunky co-pilot. Hey - doesn't hurt to look though. 🙂
LATAM is the only "scheduled airline" flying into Easter Island, yet it does get other planes landing (i.e. charters from Europe).
Evidently, a new airport is under consideration:
http://santiagotimes.cl/2017/11/23/bachelet-announces-construction-of-new-airport-for-easter-island/
I noticed the VIP Lounge when I was through in September. I flew on the connecting flight from PPT-IPC-SCL (IPC-SCL portion only). The lounge was definitely not open at that time. I think it is for government or other VVIP's as I noticed it has direct access to the apron via doorways instead of via the regular boarding lines.
I also credited my flights to Alaska and we had a bad time getting them to credit properly. We had to go back and forth by email upwards of 4 times. Alaska kept messing up the bonus stacked with our MVP bonus. It all got sorted in the end!!
In my first time in easter island two years ago i saw the vip lounge with people but when i tried to enter they told me is a place only for people who works at the airport (then realized that all the people inside were using the same clothes) and the second time two months ago was closed.
First all, it is very irresponsible of you to drag people all the way down to Easter island to stay at an extremely over priced place and fly on the crappiest airline ever even in Economy. I have been on Lan and and now Latam, ridiculous airline. Terrible lounges, terrible Flight Attendants, horrible food, I would not feed it to my dog. Their crews are super lazy and I have never met one single nice one. I am surprised that you met one, Claudia... They are always super lazy and have bad attitudes... and I do travel journalism and you are very irresponsible.
Just because you are getting these places to stay for free and you write about them and advertise it is not responsible of you, trying to sell it to the public.
Plus, I do not believe for a Nano second that you pay for all those expensive First and Business class flights and you make people believe that you are paying out of your own pocket?
If you are paying over $1000 dollars per night, in a ridiculous way over priced hotel, how much do you make out of the advertisement for it?
None of your stuff makes sense. You say you pay $7000 dollars in one shot to pay for the residence but you can not actually tell people that which travel agency booked it because you are full of S*i% and lies.
If you had really booked that rate with an agent, that agency would have loved you to advertise for them. I have been to Egypt several times and I know how bad the economy is and how much they would love to make that commission. But you lie to your readers and say it was a friend of a friend and did you a favor. What a crock of S&#t you are feeding to your gullible credulous readers.
There is no way in hell, that you will fly on all these airlines and pay full fare First Class and blah blah blah. First of all, I am assuming the credit card companies give you the miles, (the miles they purchase from the corresponding airline) and you book with them for free for yourself and the other airlines host you so you can write about them and any publicity is publicity after all. And if you were a millionaire, there would be no way that you would just jet across the world just to stay one night or two nights and then jet back, first of all, what kind of life and vacation is that? You fly to Australia for one day or you go to beautiful Egypt and you turn around? You do not even go and see the sights or have a descent meal. Plus, your hotels are all funded by the points you are given from the credit card companies and most of them, are given to you for free to advertise for them.
I wish you had been honest with your readers! I find this website so funny..
The reason I read some of this, because I am putting my own website together and I have invested my own money and i have traveled around the globe and I know it takes a lot of funds and it is nearly impossible what you are claiming and it is just bunch of lies!
You are not a journalist, you are an irresponsible person, just for your personal gain, talking crap about hotels and airlines.
Yes, I flew on Etihad but I had the shittiest Butler and I had the most horrifying Chef, who screwed up my order and my partner's as well and we never got one single mile or not even a $10 dollar credit from Etihad and I wrote to their shitty customer care center which is in INDIA multiple times... So, I know you are full of crap!
@Lucky: The VIP Lounge at IPC is for real VIPs, not for CIPs (Commercially Important Persons). There are no airline lounges for domestic flights in Chile and all but one flight per week (to Tahiti) are domestic at IPC.
I realize that it is more than six years later, but does anyone know if Claudio was able to receive any treatment?