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I'm Back! Have had trouble accessing ciao! but thanks to all the friendly people who have helped me get back on! Watch out for more Kirsty MacColl and travel reviews!
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Last year i was jetting off to New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico for two weeks of winter sun. I flew US Airways and had to change planes in Philadelphia. Our plane was delayed for an hour at Gatwick so this left us with 2 hours to catch our connecting flight to New Orleans. Easy? NO!!! We stepped off the plane into a very nice modern arrivals terminal, things seemed to be going ok. I was very wrong. When we reached immigration there were 2 desks open! There were about 500 people from all over the world who wanted to clear customs at the same time. Disaster! We had to wait for 3 hours to clear customs and of course we missed our connecting flight. There were no exceptions made for people waiting to board another plane and the staff were rude a laughed at us. Finally we reached the desk and a very angry woman who clearly didn't want to be working, barked at us; 'Why have you come to the United States.' We explained and we allowed straight through so that wasn't a problem. Then my dad discovered that he didn't have his mobile phone- it had fallen out of his bag on the plane. We needed to make calls as we would not be reaching New Orleans in 4 hours. Luckily the staff sorted it out for us and we got the phone back. Phew!!! We then went to the US Airways check-in desk to enquire about the next flight out to New Orleans! There was not another one for two days!!! Luckily we were put up in a 5 starhotel at the airport for two nights. We then turned up two days later to the airport to finally go to N.O. The airport was nice and clean and we had a lovely meal in the food hall. We enjoyed New Orleans but we would be wary about changing flights in this airport again!
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i travel alot and am very cultured :) so i know what a nightmare airpoirts can be. A good review but a strange subject to write on in my opinion. However it was a great review
pepis 10.02.2004 23:35
Sorry to hear about the delay...but at least you got to see a little bit of the city, right? Did you go to NO for Mardi Grass??? I've never been there. I hope someday you write a review on your stay. Thx :) BR
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