Greetings from the Clubhouse

Well, after a stressful start to the morning we are now chilling in the clubhouse

All started a bit of a mess with the cab driver coming in a totally different cab, despite them emailing and calling me with the details yesterday so I can book the DTCI.

So, he drops us off at the normal check-in, where the lovely agents had to cancel all the DTCI stuff and re-check us in.

The fast track security was good and we were very quickly on our way to the CH.

Think we got SEQ 2,3,4,5 in the CH today. damn. missed out on both the CH and the OLCI.

Anyway, treatments for all booked, the girls are having their hair done, lad is in for a shave and I am next.

My daughter then has her eye on the hanging chairs

Quick breakfast #1, and now enjoying a "ginger top"

Will try the Virgin Redhead later too I think, possibly after breakfast #2 at 10ish

Enjoy the morning and have a mojito for me .
Bon voyage.
DL

How can I refuse a lady. mojito ordered

[buns]

Have a fab time

buns

Have a great time, glad you've reached the calm of the CH....let the holiday begin!

Enjoy i will soon be joining you there in 2 weeks have a great holiday. J

thanks all. it really was an oasis early on... but it quite busy now.

Virgin Redhead tried, now time for GnT.

Must remember to snag some limes on my way out though.
Managed to blag a red fin pen from the spa team too

Sounds like you've gone for the full monty CH experience.

Enjoy the holiday.

We liked it so much, we are back now in the CH after our plane (Cover Girl) went Tech. 3 hours sat in the plane with nothing bit a few crisps and a run or two of water/orange juice.

Well, time for another mojito and some warm food

Sorry to hear about the delay, enjoy lunch in the CH and hope you get away soon!

Sorry to hear about your delay - enjoy the extended time in the CH.

Looks like you should be away at your new time of 5pm as your flight has an aircraft swap.

We eventually left at 6ish, so a six and half hour delay.

Flight was ok. will do a proper TR in a few days once I get settled. To cap off a crap day, there was no priority unloading of baggage, so we didnt leave LAX till 10pm. Then got stuck in roadworks and didnt finally get to Bakersfield until 1am. Long long long day

Wow, all that to get to Bakersfield

That is not a pleasant trip. Hope you're enjoying the central valley, and the toasty weather.

[mcmbenjamin]

The whole non-Tristar DTCI is great, in theory but needs some fine tuning.

1 - Better signs. Tristar knows where it is located. Ture, they send out a map but the taxi driver does not have too much time to review.
2 - Put a sign up that says taxis with VS Passengers with an authorization are allowed.
4 - VS should send proper looking authorizations to passengers.
5 - Educate taxi drivers that this is the Virgin Upper Class DTCI area. According my cabbie, it is a bus area and there is NO way out and he would get a ticket or have his license taken away. He refused to drive up. I got a trolley and walked up pushing the trolley.
6 - Signs that say perhaps "Authorized private vehicles, taxis and other vehicles carrying authorized Virgin UC Passengers are allowed"
7 - Remove the paint on the road leading to the DTCI Wing.

8 - Label the old DTCI area closed. It is confusing for taxis that say "it is closed now, it was there"


I do realize that this program is a test. Deployment during testing with customers should be done properly as well.