LUV_U_MICKEY
04-29-2007, 05:22 PM
I don't think I will get it all written in one post. I am still siffting through my notes and mental pictures.
It all started at 3am last Sunday. We were all up and out of the house within 45 minuets. A family record. We were at the Calgary Airport by 4:10am. I am glad we live close and that our cab was ontime. We lined up and waited at the Alaska air ticket terminal and waited 25 min. for them to open. They don't onpen till 4:30 but for some reason we had to be there 3 hours befor our 7am flight but they didn't have to. Well oh well we were off to Disneyland. Nothing was going to spoil our good mood and big smiles.
We get checked into our flight and head through customs. No problems. Everything was running smoothly. We seemed to be off to a great start. We stop and grab breakfast sandwiches and head to our terminal.
My DS actually mad a friend. He and a little boy started playing at like 5:30 am. They were sooo cute. My son, Calvin, was telling this other boy all about DL since he had been there befor and was so happy to be going.
At 6:30 they started boarding our plane. At 7am we pull back from the terminal and STOP!!!! Yep we moved like 200 feet and STOP. I thought we were waiting to be taxied and thought nothing about it. I just read my book. At 7:30 they Piolet tells us there is a problem with the plane and that it is just minor. We are heading back to the terminal, but are not going to deboard the plane. It is a minor problem and the tech should have us up and running with in a few mins. At 8:oo am we are told that they have to shut the plane down completely and that we are now deboarding the plane. That we should collect all our belongings. We are now 1 hour behind shedual. So we all go back to the terminal and wait and wait and wait. I ask 1 of the flight attendants what will happen if they can't fix the plane they tell me they will rebook us onto different flight leaving out of any airline. So well after 2 1/2 hours and telling us 3 times that they have the plane fixed the decision to finally book us onto different flights was made. So here we go back throught the air port. Man did we get funny looks.We finally get onto a new flight at 12:45 to La on an Air Canada flight. And a coupon for lunch. Too bad it is already 11:20 and our plane boards in just over an hour. So back throught customs and all that junk.
Well to finish my long story I will say we did finally arive at our Hotel at 4:30 and had to re book my sons Goofy's Kitchen lunch for the next day as a dinner. We did get to do a little bit of shopping but by the time we had finally arived at our hotel were all cranky and tired. But we were Finally there.
I Love the Block of Orange or atleast the part we went through. What a neat shopping mall. I love the bright airy concept. I don't think I would have been as happy at an indoor mall. After being in the Airport for over 8 hours being inside was at the bootm of my list of things to do.
I don't think I will ever book another flight on alaska. The price difference really didn't make up for the horrible service. It wasn't that our flight got cancelled but the fact they took over 2 hours to do so. How many times can they fix a plane an it still be broken. I am about to send them a nice email expressing my feeling boust their airline and how it conducts itself during these problems.
Well I will try and write some more in a bit. Eventhough getting there was a trial we had a great trip. Got sunburned and warmed. I love every minuet of the trip.
It all started at 3am last Sunday. We were all up and out of the house within 45 minuets. A family record. We were at the Calgary Airport by 4:10am. I am glad we live close and that our cab was ontime. We lined up and waited at the Alaska air ticket terminal and waited 25 min. for them to open. They don't onpen till 4:30 but for some reason we had to be there 3 hours befor our 7am flight but they didn't have to. Well oh well we were off to Disneyland. Nothing was going to spoil our good mood and big smiles.
We get checked into our flight and head through customs. No problems. Everything was running smoothly. We seemed to be off to a great start. We stop and grab breakfast sandwiches and head to our terminal.
My DS actually mad a friend. He and a little boy started playing at like 5:30 am. They were sooo cute. My son, Calvin, was telling this other boy all about DL since he had been there befor and was so happy to be going.
At 6:30 they started boarding our plane. At 7am we pull back from the terminal and STOP!!!! Yep we moved like 200 feet and STOP. I thought we were waiting to be taxied and thought nothing about it. I just read my book. At 7:30 they Piolet tells us there is a problem with the plane and that it is just minor. We are heading back to the terminal, but are not going to deboard the plane. It is a minor problem and the tech should have us up and running with in a few mins. At 8:oo am we are told that they have to shut the plane down completely and that we are now deboarding the plane. That we should collect all our belongings. We are now 1 hour behind shedual. So we all go back to the terminal and wait and wait and wait. I ask 1 of the flight attendants what will happen if they can't fix the plane they tell me they will rebook us onto different flight leaving out of any airline. So well after 2 1/2 hours and telling us 3 times that they have the plane fixed the decision to finally book us onto different flights was made. So here we go back throught the air port. Man did we get funny looks.We finally get onto a new flight at 12:45 to La on an Air Canada flight. And a coupon for lunch. Too bad it is already 11:20 and our plane boards in just over an hour. So back throught customs and all that junk.
Well to finish my long story I will say we did finally arive at our Hotel at 4:30 and had to re book my sons Goofy's Kitchen lunch for the next day as a dinner. We did get to do a little bit of shopping but by the time we had finally arived at our hotel were all cranky and tired. But we were Finally there.
I Love the Block of Orange or atleast the part we went through. What a neat shopping mall. I love the bright airy concept. I don't think I would have been as happy at an indoor mall. After being in the Airport for over 8 hours being inside was at the bootm of my list of things to do.
I don't think I will ever book another flight on alaska. The price difference really didn't make up for the horrible service. It wasn't that our flight got cancelled but the fact they took over 2 hours to do so. How many times can they fix a plane an it still be broken. I am about to send them a nice email expressing my feeling boust their airline and how it conducts itself during these problems.
Well I will try and write some more in a bit. Eventhough getting there was a trial we had a great trip. Got sunburned and warmed. I love every minuet of the trip.