As we went to the airport I joked to Mary that we should volunteer to be bumped since we have an extra day in San Francisco. As we neared our boarding time an announcement of a 15 minute delay due to equipment issues was made. 15 minutes later, it became an indeterminate delay. The next announcement was the kicker: "We're sorry to announce that we have to open up the plane to effect repairs and no alternate aircraft is available. Your flight has been delayed to 12:30 p.m. tomorrow. We will bus you to a hotel, provide supper and breakfast before busing you back to the airport. We apologize for any inconvenience".
I cannot begin to imagine what Qantas had to do to find a hotel with 200+ available rooms and the logistics to move a fairly full 747 load of people to a hotel overnight.
So, we are now staying in Novotel Sydney, right on Darling Harbor! Talk about a step up from the places I booked!
So now I just need to call our place in San Francisco to cancel Sunday night since we obviously won't be needing that room.
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