You know, NZ6 from Auckland to Los Angeles is a bloody perfect flight.
It leaves early evening, so you get dinner after take-off, get a decent sleep, and wake up in time for breakfast before landing. Very civilised.
Not sure if I mentioned on our return from the dentist in Bangkok, but we did it via Singapore. And SINSYD is just a little short to get more than 4-5 hours sleep after dinner. You've got to go full coma as soon as you get onboard to have any chance of a decent sleep.
But NZ6 was great. It may be 12ish hours long, but so is 7pm to 7am. Dinner, sleep, breakfast, no jet lag, no problem. LA has actually moved on to 12 noon, so once you land, the locals are doing lunch.
Being 5 hours ahead is pretty easy to deal with, you don't even care that they are a whole day behind as well.
We are staying at the Crowne Plaza again. Nice and handy to the airport. We booked it on Hotwire.com. I'm sure I have mentioned it before, but here it is again for the members of Alzheimer's-are-us.
It leaves early evening, so you get dinner after take-off, get a decent sleep, and wake up in time for breakfast before landing. Very civilised.
Not sure if I mentioned on our return from the dentist in Bangkok, but we did it via Singapore. And SINSYD is just a little short to get more than 4-5 hours sleep after dinner. You've got to go full coma as soon as you get onboard to have any chance of a decent sleep.
But NZ6 was great. It may be 12ish hours long, but so is 7pm to 7am. Dinner, sleep, breakfast, no jet lag, no problem. LA has actually moved on to 12 noon, so once you land, the locals are doing lunch.
Being 5 hours ahead is pretty easy to deal with, you don't even care that they are a whole day behind as well.
We are staying at the Crowne Plaza again. Nice and handy to the airport. We booked it on Hotwire.com. I'm sure I have mentioned it before, but here it is again for the members of Alzheimer's-are-us.
- Dial into Hotwire,
- put in the destination and dates you want a room,
- select the area you want off the map or a list
- pick the star rating you want
- they will give you a price
- pay for it
- they then tell you the name of the hotel.
This trip it's the Crown Plaza at LAX, and the Vdara in Las Vegas. We wanted sour strip because the show is on at The Mandalay Bay, and it's at the bottom of the strip.
I can heartily recommend Hotwire.com, and I can heartily recommend staying at the south end of the strip. Everything worth doing in Vegas is on the strip, and the living part of the strip starts at The Wynn, and goes down to MGM.
You should always be within walking or staggering distance from your hotel, and being able to pop in, drop your shopping and head out again is a huge bonus.
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