A delicious green chicken curry and a vodka tonic
Club Sandwich
Beefy, noodle soup thing
Melting middle chocolate cake
After a couple of hours, I decided that I would take a
shower. The journey had already been arduous so freshening up sounded like a great idea. The first thing I noticed was that the shower room was air conditioned!! We, frequent flyers based in Europe, have LONGED for an air conditioned shower room. I would go as far to say that the room was COLD. At first I didn’t see any products or towel so I walked out and asked the attendant. She showed me that everything that I needed was neatly concealed in a beautiful wooden box next to the shower. I guess this separates the newbees from the regulars. A nice selection of
L’Occitane products was on offer. I lingered in the shower but soon my liver was beckoning me back to our living room to get more champers.
An assortment of L’Occitane products in the shower room
The free wifi in the lounge was very fast and I was able to download several TV shows from my
home computer in California. We love getting our favorite shows while living abroad.
Around 2:30pm, I returned to the LH transfer desk with our three passports and got the boarding passes and lounge invitations. She even put the first class boarding passes in the
special ticket holders that LH uses. She mentioned that there would only be one other passenger in first with us. That’s one too many if you asked me!
Back at the lounge I handed in our lounge invites and returned to our living room where continued to eat and drink. I was worried that someone was tracking our total consumption and at any moment
sirens would go off and we would be ejected from our living room like a fighter pilot from a dying plane. Luckily no sirens sounded. A polite attendant did approach us at one point to let us know that our flight was about thirty minutes late. She would let us know when we needed to leave.
Finally a different attendant let us know when the flight was ready for us to board and we made our way down to the gate. I was surprised
how far it was to our gate. This has happened to me before but TG offers an electric cart to its FC passengers.
“Ma, is this our flight? I can’t really tell cuz it’s all written in Chinese.”
Our LH 747-400 bird tired after a long trip from Frankfurt
At the gate boarding had just begun and we walked directly on the plane. A less than
tearful goodbye happened at the base of the stairs as I walked to seat 1K in the nose and the rest of my family climbed the stairs of privilege to First Class. So here we break into two reports:
FIRST CLASS:
My hubby said it was a great flight. The flight attendants were very friendly. They wanted to hear the entire story of how we left Germany and would be spending the year traveling. Being good Germans, they did question that Corbin wouldn’t be attending school for the whole year.
WAS THAT LEGAL? Germans just don’t understand that it could ever be legal to teach your own child. Understand that in Munich, the police stand outside of customs at the airport after the school holidays are over and give parents 1000 euro fines for coming back late. This makes sense to Germans. Also a couple was thrown into jail for attempting to homeschool their children. Actually the couple was allowed to split the jail time so what one parent was always at home with the kids. I’m not making any of this up.
My non-dish doing husband
Our first class connoisseur son
Back to the flight. Up in the air, an amuse bouche was served and then a cold platter of cheese, smoked salmon and potato salad was served followed by a lovely cake and coffee. Once again not bad for an hour flight. This was the first time that either my hubby or son was in Lufthansa First Class. While they didn’t really experience the long-haul service, it was great for this short flight. Neither complained about the
outdated seat. I didn’t want to spoil it for them.
First Class cold platter
First Class dessert
BUSINESS CLASS:
The less fortunate (me) had the entire row 1 to myself. The entire business class cabin seemed to be close to empty. Are they making any money on this extention? It was fun to be back with
my German peeps albeit for just sixty minutes. The flight attendants were professional but I’m not sure anyone spoke to me except to take my drink order. No one addressed me by my name. No one offered me a hot towel. I was okay with that. They left me alone and I left them alone.
A cold platter was also served in business class that consisted of cold fish and roast beef slices served with a
brez'n roll. After filling up in the Thai First lounge, I wasn’t very hungry. I did enjoy the brez'n. It’s a flavor of Germany that I miss. Schweinhaxe on the other hand…
The business class cold platter
I played with the inflight entertainment for a minute and found a quick
sitcom to pass the time.
A blurry look at the flight plan. I swear it’s the camera and not the operator
Overall, I’d definitely choose this flight again. Once again the
value for money was excellent. It sure beats the local carriers on this route if you are willing to have less flexibility on schedule.
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This report is part of an entire year of travel. The trip report can be found here:
My son’s fifth grade year: 97,737 miles, 40 flights, 6 continents and 16 countries