UC check in was a breeze, no one in front of us and the agent was very friendly and quick, infact there was no one at PE check in and only two couples at Y check in. We purposely arrived 8 hours before departure as we were clubhouse virgins
Off we went to fast track, and we were through in seconds.I decided it was a good time to get the Iris thing sorted so went and queued for that, big mistake, there was about half a 747 of Japenese waiting to register, OK, I'm lying, there was about 12 people but it ended up taking us about 45 minutes to get it all sorted, it took us just a few minutes each but they had a lot of problems with the people in front of us.
Finally we reached the clubhouse, yep, it's as good as you all say, we were very impressed and happy to while away the hours in there. I was on the Champers and Heinekens. I had a haircut booked and, as it wasn't busy I pulled it forward. The girl cutting my hair was a bit of a misery tbh but never mind, you can't have everything. My wife went for the nail treatments and was not very impressed with it either. We still had a cracking time, we both ate and took the recommendation of the clubhouse burger again, this is as good as you all say it was and we were very impressed.
All too quickly our flight was announced and we were gutted as were having a great time but off we went to board, when the flight was announced we were told there was priority boarding but I'd be damned if I could see where, we pushed in a little and didn't appear to annoy anyone but I never felt comfortable doing this, I know it's said a lot on here but they really should make it easier for priority boarders.
We were soon on board and offered the champers, I got through a couple of glasses. I wasn't interested in the reg of the plane but it was first airborne Oct 06 and as you'd expect, all was in good condition and we had our pre booked seats of 3&4K - they were excellent and felt very private as you had no one facing you.
We soon chugged off, pushing back just a few minutes late IIRC, within in seconds of takeoff I'd gone, fast asleep, I missed the hot towels and food orders but I wasn't hungry anyway. I woke briefly to change into the sleep suit and converted my seat to a bed, my wife stayed up and had a lite bite to eat.
After about 3 hours I was awake, I went to the bar to get a toothbrush and toothpaste (We just got a plastic bag with socks, eyeshades and earplugs BTW, no cardboard box! - that's not even a scrooge pack is it??) and I ordered a triple shot cappuccino which was with me promplty. My wife did the opposite, she went to sleep as I got up
After all that I had a little play with V-port, mainly listening to albums already on my Ipod [ii] but there you go, then I moved onto 'Snakes on a plane', if you take it light heartedly as intended it's actually not that bad a film.
It was time for breakfast, I had a double shot cappuccion this time and went for the lanb sausage roll, it was horrible!
Touchdown was nothing special and we were quickly trough fast track, unfortunately all the bags took a while to come out but hey ho, who cares, we were soon on our way and met our driver for the transfer to the Hilton Dubai Creek.
All in all, this experience was far superior to our previous efforts in UC on the MAN-MCO route, we'll definitely be repeating it again, it's worth it for the Clubhouse alone, my god I really do feel conned travelling ex-Man now! We have most of our 2007 stuff sorted but from 2008 it's ex LHR and the clubhouse all the way
Nothing exciting to report I'm afraid but hopefully it's useful to some of you.
