Originally Posted by
pokiame
Hello! Thanks to everyone for a really informative thread - I spent this morning reading the whole thing twice lol
My girlfriend and I have an upcoming trip to Spain. This is our first time traveling internationally together and in an effort to make things as smooth as possible I have booked us in D1 (thanks to another thread here that helped me find some really low fares) and am considering VIP Select at either our outbound connection - domestic to international at ATL, or inbound international to domestic at DTW. All legs are on DL metal.
Having to pick just one, which would make more sense? Neither connection is tight (we have 3 hours in ATL, and 5 (gross) in DTW). I am leaning towards the returning connection at DTW because we have to go through customs and re-check our bags and that will be in the middle of a very long travel day. On the outbound trip I am expecting our bags to be checked through our final stop and we won't have to deal with them at ATL at all, but ATL is a larger airport.
Any comments or opinions would be appreciated.
On International to Domestic, they meet you after immigration, walk you over to re-check your bags, then walk you through security, then take you down and outside to Porsche transfer to the sky club of your choice. Then they come back and get you at the sky club and take you to your flight. But with five hours in Detroit, you might now want to sit in the club the whole time, depending on the sleep situation.
I'd probably do it for her on the outbound as a part of the wow factor - particularly if you keep it a surprise. It's a great way to get her excited about the trip. You'll walk out the plane and at the door of the plane see your host with a sign (you can have them put whatever you would like on it) and then they take you down for the Porsche transfer to the sky club, and then back to the plane to board either first or last. It's a pretty cool thing to do for someone traveling with you, particularly if they aren't used to the first class travel life.