Farvel (Goodbye) Fjords (Saturday)

Our bags had to be out by 10 pm last night. Headed to the airport at 6:15 am for 10:00 flights. Dave and Deb fly thru PA on American; we’re on Air France thru Paris.

View from the ship at 5:30 am:



So now, a day of waiting in airports. Quick 50 minutes from AMS -CDG. Now 3 1/2 hours til our flight to DTW. FYI, Paris airport (CDG) has the best chocolate.

Half hour to get through passport control at CDG; would have been faster if they had moved us into the automated line sooner. Pretty painless. 

But then. 

We boarded about 30 min late and took off just 20 min late about 4 pm Paris time…flew 2+hours and then the pilot said we had a mechanical issue and were going back to Paris. Arrived there at 9:30 pm Paris time. Looong walk through the airport to get in line with the other few hundred on the flight to get rebooked (tried on line…no deal). We got a voucher for a nearby Holiday Inn Express that included dinner and breakfast. It was now 11 pm and the bar closed at 11:30, so the dinner consisted of pizzas that had to be ordered immediately and could be eaten at the bar or taken to our rooms. 

An email suggested that we call the # on the Air France website…no number is listed anywhere on the site. I Snap Chatted with an agent that disappeared on me, then couldn’t get an agent back on line. An automated text says we should learn our fate around 6 am Sunday morning!🤞🤞

Hope to have a better outcome to report tomorrow (actually later today—it’s 12:30 am here).

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