Dec 15 - We’re Off!
After spending the night at the Holiday Inn across from the airport, our 4:15 AM wake up call got us to the 5:00 AM shuttle. The airport was busy!!! Long security lines and long, snaking lines in the Customs and Immigration hall!! But the magic Special Assistance wheelchair allowed us to avoid all the chaos as we were wizzed past all the other people!
Our flight was delayed by almost an hour, but by shortly after 9:00 we were on our way to SanDiego, California. It was a pleasant flight and we arrived to cool temps and sunny skies.
We took the shuttle service to our hotel with a Southwest Airlines crew! While we waited for them to check in we found ourselves at what we thought was a concierge desk to ask about the hop on hop off trolley. Well…. We ended up agreeing to go to one of those time share presentation gimmicks!!
We let the guy at the desk rattle on about sightseeing and all the free stuff he could get for us!! Next thing we knew we were in an Uber on our way to the presentation center for Wyndham!! Yep! Gullible! BUT we got free hop on hop off trolley and free zoo entrance for tomorrow!! So this will get us to the Zoo without taking a taxi, and we can do our sightseeing on the trolley. Value of about $100 US each!!
The only downside was having to listen to the salesman try to convince us to spend tens of thousands of US dollars to buy points that would get us travel time!!! We kept telling him we only like to cruise and our ‘window’ for travelling is not 25 years! At the end, when he asked on a scale of 1-10, how likely we would be to go to another presentation in the future and we said ‘0’, he said he would get us an Uber back to the hotel!
By the time the guy finished with us we were exhausted from being up early and travelling for hours and we just wanted to get to our room!
After a bit of a rest we went across the street and had a quick bite, and now we are looking at our watches every 5 minutes to see if it’s bedtime!!! 6:00 PM…. 6:05 PM…feels like midnight!
We never know when we set out what the next adventure will be!!!
Hopefully tomorrow will be an enjoyable day at the world famous San Diego Zoo!!
Night! Night!
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LOL Way to go getting around the sales pitches! Have fun!
ReplyDeleteLadies, have I got a deal for you.......and you can use it for the next 25 years. It is not refundable, not transferable, but I am sure you will love it.
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