This is a Trip Report from the Upper Class cabin
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a one nght stay.
We left the hotel at around 07.00 for our 09.30 VS117 departure, a very short taxi ride to DTCI & we were very soon & effectively processed & in the main terminal. Following a short visit to duty free we were in the Clubhouse where we enjoyed a good breakfast & a couple of glasses of fizz.
Left the Clubhouse on the first call, by the time we got to the gate there was no queue & we were soon taking out seats (1A & 1D) & enjoying a glass of fizz. At this stage all was looking good for an on time departure, however shortly afterwards the Captain came on the PA to announce a delay due to fog & a back up of departing flights, this delay ended up being approx 75 minutes which all though not great the time soon passes as in flight entertainment was available & tea, coffee & of course bubbly was served.
Departure time finally arrived & after sitting in a queue of departing aircraft we were in the air.
Service throughout the flight was good, food was average at best, my wife decided to give up on the steak for future flights as the last 2 or 3 she has tried have not been good.
CC were very good though & made for a good flight.
Much comment has been made here on the A330-300, I must say I was not over impressed, my seat certainly seemed cramped & I missed having an arm rest an arm rest on my right hand side.
This was the first time we had flown in to Miami & I have to say that all the reports I have read on v flyer proved to be very accurate. The walk from the plane to immigration was unbelievably long, we went straight to the passport scanning machines, unfortunately my wife's passport was not accepted so we had to join a queue of many, many people whose passport print out had received a cross, we probably stood in the queue for an hour & a quarter, the whole thing seemed very badly organised, it certainly would have helped if the room had been air conditioned & there was somewhere to purchase cold drinks. One upside was that information gleaned from v flyer meant that we were expecting this frustration at immigration.
Eventually through immigration we were met by the very efficient driver from Miami Limousine who whisked off to Fort Lauderdale for the start of our holiday.
Overall the flight was fine, no sparkle at all but perfectly functional with no complaints.
oldboy