Today I start a new Trip Report about our last trip to Crete. It was a „Budget-trip“ as my wife wanted to save money. We ended up booking 5 nights at the Blue Palace Elounda (Luxury Collection) in a Bungalow with private pool.
We started our journey at DUS airport from were our flight to Heraklion with Air Berlin departeted. First we should start at 5:50, but they changed the times weeks before to 7:50.
Like more or less every journey from DUS it started at the „exclusive“ Hugo Junkers Lounge. Like I said in the past it´s an OK lounge with limited food offerings. Nothing to write home about....
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Entrance:
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The flight borded before time but left a few minutes late as a crew member was ill. I grabed Emergency seats at the A 321 which offered good legroom.
We arrived in time and lagguage-transfer worked relative well. We visited the restrooms at the airport and wished we had used the one at the plane....
I prebooked a rental car via billiger-mietwagen.de at Hertz. When we arrived at the rental car area the shock! No one at the Sixt-counter, no one at the Budget-counter, no one at the Europcar counter and no one at the Avis counter BUT the half plane at the Hertz counter. Cool!
After over 1 ½ hours we got our papers and could go to the pick up station. We got a Hyundai i30 Diesel (weakest one I guess) in basis-configuration. Not the worst car but if I had to drive it every day I would get mad...
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