We had a nice stay at the Marriott Airport hotel in Sao Paulo. It was very elegant and just what we needed after rushing through the Sao Paulo airport only to find we missed our flight by less than 15 minutes. We hit our low point of the day while waiting for the Marriott shuttle, not knowing for sure if we were in the right place. We both rejoiced when it showed up! We were able to get a good night's sleep, and enjoyed a great complimentary breakfast before hanging out until it was time to head to the airport late in the afternoon for our flight to Atlanta.
After arriving from Sao Paulo at 6:15AM, Mary and I are now in the Atlanta airport. We flew in DeltaOne for the overnight flight. In DeltaOne you get 15 sq ft of dedicated space and lay down beds! I think Mary has now been spoiled and will want this on any future overnight flights. After watching a movie, we enjoyed a nice dinner, then tried to sleep. It took a while to find a comfortable position, but we both got several hours of sleep which is way more that we would have gotten in Comfort+ seats.
Clearing customs in Atlanta was a breeze, thanks to having Global Entry cards. We were cleared and heading to our gate less than 1 hour after we landed. No Covid-19 questions or anything like that.
We have had two morning flights to Detroit cancelled (possibly due to few passengers) so we are waiting out a 3 1/2 hour layover. But even if anything goes wrong with our last fight, we are happy to be back in the USA where we have many options for getting home.
We heard yesterday that there are over 1000 passengers still on the Coral Princess, which was forced to leave Buenos Aires last night. Our prayers are that they can find a place to disembark so they, too, can head home.
4 comments:
Good to see you’re inching closer to home. Thank goodness you’re such excellent planners!
That little Delta ‘nest’ looks great! Is that considered First Class?
Continue to take care!
Kathy
YAY -- wonderful news and I know you must be SO relieved to be on U.S. soil. Tell Mary she looks right at home in that nest. Did they upgrade you to that? Was the plane empty?
Yay , great news to hear you are back in the US , Yay again . Yes Bill , I;m not sure I would make it home along , you are great at planning . Welcome home . Pat
Woohoo!! So glad you finally made it back to the good old USA! I'm glad you were rewarded for all of your travel interruptions with Delta one seats coming home! It looks very comfy and definitely something to consider for those long overnight trips in the future!
Wow – those poor people that are still on your cruise ship must be going crazy. Have you heard anything about where they're going to dock? So glad you guys got off when you did!
Hope no more cancellations for your flight to Detroit. Safe travels and hope you're home again today!
Gail
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