We're back from our awesome trip to Hong Kong and Taipei and I'll begin working on trip reports as soon as I have some time. It was certainly a whirlwind as we had flight changes going and coming. I wrote about the change we made (and associated drama) to our outgoing flight last week.
We had a great time in both Hong Kong and Taipei. The day before we were supposed to depart Taipei for Hong Kong (where we were going to overnight at the W) I figured I'd check to see if we could get a more direct routing home from Taipei. I also checked to see if Cathay Pacific first class had opened up...lucky for us there were two seats on one of the HKG - LAX flights the day before we were supposed to come home. That meant we'd keep our original Taipei to Hong Kong flight and then just layover vs. going into the city.
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| Taipei 101 NYE Fireworks |
Emily and I talked it over and decided that we should go for it. We have both wanted to fly Cathay and this was a good opportunity to do so. That meant we were going to miss 20 hours in Hong Kong but since we gained 12 hours or so on the way there (by switching to an earlier flight) we felt like it was a good trade off.
So I called (via Skype) American Airlines and went about changing the flight. More drama as American was making a system update to their website and the first agent I spoke with was only able to hold the reservation...not ticket it. I was told to call back in 6 hours to get the reservation completed. There was more drama but needless to say it all worked out.
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| The Wing Bar - Not a bad spot for a 5 hour layover |
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| Cathay First Class - Hong Kong to LAX |
We had a phenomenal time at the Wing (Cathay's first class lounge in Hong Kong) before the long flight home. I'll have more details in the full trip report but just wanted to update all of you that didn't follow along via Instagram.
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