the Hampton inn was a great place to spend the night. Though all we really did was sleep.

However, in order to avoid losing the points for our partially completed trip that we did not take to Toronto I had to phone Aeroplan yet again.

This was my view for the two hours I was on hold while waiting in the lobby so as not to disturb my wife who generally sleeps a lot more than I do.



The room was great, it was only $90 for the night, free shuttle and a nice little breakfast. I would definitely stay at this hotel again.

We had pre booked a shuttle for 10 am to take us back to Calgary airport. The ride was quick albeit a bit cold.

Once again there was a line up for the Priority desk of at least 10 people, however the regular line was empty and the excellent agent had us checked in quickly. No line for security meant we were in the lounge in just a few minutes from arriving at the airport.

The chocolate powder on top of my cappucino started out in the Air Canada logo but I took too long to take a picture.



Its hard to make out but the mountains in the back make the view out of this lounge outstanding.



Our ride back up to Edmonton which had arrived 10 minutes early from its last flight.



The legroom isn't great but the aircraft are looking very very tired. The inside is just beat up and it looks like its a high mileage aircraft despite



Not much of a view for todays flight.



The flight was about 50% full and we had a short taxi to the runway. Advertised gate to gate was 54 minutes however we managed to do it in 40.


A small snack and drink on a short flight. I was wondering if we would even get anything with the short flight time.




Our bags were the third and fourth out with priority tags. One out of 4 aint bad. We had to wait about 15 minutes for our ride but before long we were back home.

All in all an outstanding trip. Had Air Canadas ground game and Aeroplans customer service been a bit better we would have saved a lot of time. However in the end we got where we wanted to go comfortably with a few good meals, some movies and lots of drinks. My wife wants to go back in February so maybe a repeat unless the world has ended by that point.

Thanks for reading and I would love to hear your thoughts or questions. Merry Christmas.