MUC-CPH-LHR-JFK-IAD-LHR-MUC-LHRYx2Jx2Fx2 // D'Angleterre-The Surrey-Mandarin Oriental
Background
Having been on secondment in Munich for the last 6 months, and having decided we should go to New York for Christmas last year and not gone, it seemed like this year I was on the hook for delivering as promised.
"Women always worry about the things that men forget; Men always worry about the things women remember." - Albert Einstein
So that was sorted - we would be in New York for Christmas, but I made myself a promise last time I visited the USA (2009!) that when I went back to the East Coast, it would involve Washington so I could visit my favourite pizza restaurant, and hope to high heaven that it was indeed as good as I remember it, or forever ruin the family memory from 6 years ago! Hence the detour.
The next slightly complicated part was that I needed to be in London (stress needed) to go out with 23 of my buddies for New Year's Eve, but I also had to sign out of my apartment in Munich on 31 December, and not knowing how much stuff I would have I might need to return to Munich to pick up and extra suitcase (that I didn't want to haul to the US) - so the routing became a whole lot more convoluted – particularly after the PHL-MUC flight was cancelled by AA.
Itinerary
Onto the specifics that I know you my dear readers really care about I booked:
Flights
SAS MUC-CPH Y
BA CPH-LHR J
BA LHR-JFK F
BA IAD-LHR F
BA LHR-MUC J
BA MUC-LHR Y - (Flexible separate ticket - booked by my firm when I came out here so the outbound was back in July).
Hotels
D'Angleterre Copenhagen 1 night
The Surrey New York 4 nights
Mandarin Oriental Washington D.C 3 nights
The report will primarily be written in dead time e.g. on the plane and or trains, and airport lounges etc. over the next 8 days, anything I can’t finish will be completed shortly after getting back home.
I hope you enjoy the report.
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