Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 4 Author Report Posted July 4 I almost forgot…this is our total luggage for 2 weeks. The red 29” is basically empty. A few freeloader flip flops and empty backpacks for excursions. DDaley, Ampurp85, SweetPea and 12 others 8 1 6 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 4 Author Report Posted July 4 This is way better than our usual McDonalds breakfast at DTW JohnK6404, bellemiche, Robert M and 8 others 10 1 Quote
bellemiche Posted July 4 Report Posted July 4 Safe travels! Looking forward to reading about your adventures! Neesa and Lovetocruise2002 2 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 4 Author Report Posted July 4 We are on board! This CRJ900 is small! Quite the challenge getting our carry ons to fit. OCSC Mike, Sweety, MaryS and 8 others 5 1 5 Quote
asquared17 Posted July 4 Report Posted July 4 1 hour ago, Lovetocruise2002 said: We are on board! This CRJ900 is small! Quite the challenge getting our carry ons to fit. a lot of those flights to europe have smalllll overhead space glad you made it work!! Neesa, Lovetocruise2002 and Sweety 3 Quote
Ampurp85 Posted July 4 Report Posted July 4 Safe travels. That food setup is why I love the lounges. I also understand the trades off when it comes to frugality. Some of the things I will spend money on baffles people, while refusing to spend the bare minimum on others. OCSC Mike, Sweety, Lovetocruise2002 and 1 other 4 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 4 Author Report Posted July 4 We made it to JFK! Neesa, MaryS, asquared17 and 8 others 9 1 1 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 4 Author Report Posted July 4 Just leave me here for a while….. Cactus527, bellemiche, Robert M and 9 others 12 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 4 Author Report Posted July 4 The new D1 lounge is gorgeous! Lots of sitting areas: asquared17, JohnK6404, Neesa and 6 others 7 2 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 4 Author Report Posted July 4 “Buffet” option. They handle the food. Cactus527, bellemiche, MaryS and 6 others 7 2 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 4 Author Report Posted July 4 Drink options. There is a main bar. And some self serve options, as well as many bar carts. OCSC Mike, MaryS, Ampurp85 and 4 others 7 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 4 Author Report Posted July 4 The D1 lounge also has a sit down restaurant. It was fantastic! Dare I say, even better than CK. In our short time in the D1 lounge, we sampled as much food as possible. It was high quality, flavourful, very delicious! I told Hubby we need to find a way to return without the freeloaders lol WAAAYTOOO, bellemiche, asquared17 and 10 others 9 4 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 4 Author Report Posted July 4 With our tummies super full, we are now at the gate. Waiting to board in about 5 mins. Robert M, Sweety, Cactus527 and 1 other 4 Quote
Ampurp85 Posted July 4 Report Posted July 4 Is that deconstructed cheesecake in the shape of Swiss cheese? Sweety and Lovetocruise2002 2 Quote
OCSC Mike Posted July 4 Report Posted July 4 17 minutes ago, Lovetocruise2002 said: The D1 lounge also has a sit down restaurant. It was fantastic! Dare I say, even better than CK. Looks amazing! Sweety and Lovetocruise2002 2 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 4 Author Report Posted July 4 36 minutes ago, Ampurp85 said: Is that deconstructed cheesecake in the shape of Swiss cheese? It was! The kids found that really amusing! Ampurp85, Sweety, bellemiche and 2 others 4 1 Quote
GregD Posted July 5 Report Posted July 5 13 hours ago, Lovetocruise2002 said: We are on board! This CRJ900 is small! Quite the challenge getting our carry ons to fit. Remind me to tell you about my first flight to Luxembourg! Side note....I now need to go to that lounge....Scotland just got pricier. Sweety, Lovetocruise2002 and Cactus527 3 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 5 Author Report Posted July 5 We have landed in Barcelona. Smooth travels. Last step…locate luggage Cactus527, Neesa, bellemiche and 11 others 10 4 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 5 Author Report Posted July 5 Checked into the H10 Metropolitan. Even though we all got some sleep on the plane, jet lag is hitting all of us pretty hard. It is hard to muster up the energy to go out right now. Only one of our rooms is ready so we are taking our turns to freshen up and get back out there. We booked identical rooms side by side. Pretty nice property. The room is a bit on the small size, but that is expected. There’s complimentary water, cookies, and chocolate. There is also a kettle and Nespresso coffee maker in the room. Neesa, Cactus527, Jax and 8 others 9 2 Quote
Sweety Posted July 5 Report Posted July 5 Glad you made it safely. WAAAYTOOO, Lovetocruise2002 and Neesa 2 1 Quote
ScottD Posted July 5 Report Posted July 5 That Airport lounge was NICE. Jeez, I thought it was the hotel at first. Glad you got across the ocean with no issues...hoping the rest goes as smoothly!! Sweety, Ampurp85, Cactus527 and 2 others 3 2 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 5 Author Report Posted July 5 15 minutes ago, ScottD said: That Airport lounge was NICE. Jeez, I thought it was the hotel at first. Glad you got across the ocean with no issues...hoping the rest goes as smoothly!! It was! In fact, we were talking about it on the plane and we would best describe it as a whole experience, which is exactly what I think Delta was going for when they created the D1 lounge. I definitely wish we had more time there. Cactus527, Ampurp85 and ScottD 3 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 5 Author Report Posted July 5 My age is showing big time! We have been wandering Las Ramblas for about two hours now and I am so tired and exhausted. And it’s not even super hot today. It’s quite comfortable. Bouncing back from jet lag is getting harder. Will post some pics later. Currently in a Beethoven music store. Jax, Cactus527, JohnK6404 and 6 others 8 1 Quote
OCSC Mike Posted July 5 Report Posted July 5 2 hours ago, Lovetocruise2002 said: My age is showing big time! Age is just a number... and caffeine helps. Sweety, Cactus527, PPPJJ-GCVAB and 4 others 3 4 Quote
themillennialcruiser Posted July 5 Report Posted July 5 7 hours ago, Lovetocruise2002 said: We have landed in Barcelona. Smooth travels. Last step…locate luggage So glad you made it smoothly! If you have time we did a tapas tasting with Devour tours in Barcelona and it was amazing! I still dream about some of the tapas and wine we had during that tour. Lovetocruise2002 1 Quote
GregD Posted July 5 Report Posted July 5 Glad you made it with no flight issues! Enjoy your nap, and more exploring. Neesa and Lovetocruise2002 2 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 5 Author Report Posted July 5 2 hours ago, OCSC Mike said: Age is just a number... and caffeine helps. Haha! You are right! Coffee was our first stop as soon as we ventured out! It only helped a bit. Overall we are still beat. It’s basically 2 nights with little sleep because we left the house at 6am on Thursday morning to catch our flight to JFK. 1 hour ago, themillennialcruiser said: So glad you made it smoothly! If you have time we did a tapas tasting with Devour tours in Barcelona and it was amazing! I still dream about some of the tapas and wine we had during that tour. I remember you did that. We have a food tour booked in Rome. We are so tired tonight that we are just going to grab some tapas close by and call it day. 1 hour ago, GregD said: Glad you made it with no flight issues! Enjoy your nap, and more exploring. No nap for us, just Hubby. Freeloaders and I don’t operate like that. If we nap now, we won’t sleep solid tonight and we need to reset. So “powering through” as D17 calls it and after dinner. WAAAYTOOO, OCSC Mike, MaryS and 7 others 9 1 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 5 Author Report Posted July 5 Where did I leave off? Oh yes, checked in at 7:30am this morning and they had one room ready. We took it, freshened up, and headed back out to wander Las Ramblas around 10:30am. Our main goal was to check out Mercat de la Boqueria. We have seen so many YouTube videos on this that we figured this would make a good place to grab a bite for lunch. We ended up trying a few different things but did not stay long, it was super crowded! Sweety, TessFromFlorida, PPPJJ-GCVAB and 10 others 8 1 4 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 5 Author Report Posted July 5 The rest of the afternoon was just wandering all the way up and down Las Ramblas until about 3pm when we were way too tired and call it quits. Some pics from our wandering. bellemiche, TessFromFlorida, twangster and 11 others 10 4 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 5 Author Report Posted July 5 Going to head out soon for an early dinner so that we can go to bed. Trying to decide between pasta/pizza/tapas or just tapas Sweety and Cactus527 2 Quote
OCSC Mike Posted July 5 Report Posted July 5 1 minute ago, Lovetocruise2002 said: Trying to decide between pasta/pizza/tapas or just tapas Obvious answer... whatever lets you try as many different things as possible! Enjoy! Lovetocruise2002 and Neesa 1 1 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 5 Author Report Posted July 5 8 minutes ago, OCSC Mike said: Obvious answer... whatever lets you try as many different things as possible! Enjoy! My vote is for the pizza/pasta/tapas place too but we need Hubby to wake up before we can make a final decision lol Jax, OCSC Mike, Neesa and 2 others 5 Quote
GregD Posted July 5 Report Posted July 5 2 minutes ago, Lovetocruise2002 said: but we need Hubby to wake up WAKE UP!! via Apple TV on GIPHY Jax, WAAAYTOOO, Neesa and 5 others 7 1 Quote
OCSC Mike Posted July 5 Report Posted July 5 30 minutes ago, Lovetocruise2002 said: we need Hubby to wake up before we can make a final decision lol Don't you have the saying "You snooze, you lose!" in Canada? If he wanted a say he shouldn't have gone to sleep. He forfeited his vote IMO. PPPJJ-GCVAB, MaryS, Neesa and 4 others 7 Quote
WAAAYTOOO Posted July 5 Report Posted July 5 The food in that food court looks very interesting ! Not sure how much I would eat but I would love looking at all of it ! Sweety, Ampurp85, MaryS and 3 others 5 1 Quote
Ampurp85 Posted July 5 Report Posted July 5 I am glad you made it safely and smoothly. That weather looks great. Neesa and Lovetocruise2002 1 1 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 5 Author Report Posted July 5 3 hours ago, OCSC Mike said: Don't you have the saying "You snooze, you lose!" in Canada? If he wanted a say he shouldn't have gone to sleep. He forfeited his vote IMO. We most definitely do! I say that to my kids and Grade 8s all the time! 2 hours ago, WAAAYTOOO said: The food in that food court looks very interesting ! Not sure how much I would eat but I would love looking at all of it ! I hesitated to eat a lot of the things that contained meat. Unsure of how safe it was. We were discussing this at dinner and I was in a hurry to get out of there since it was so crowded, but Hubby loved just looking at how colourful everything was, and how vibrant that environment was. So he was in the camp of “loved looking at it”. The fresh fruit in the stands were amazing though! 2 hours ago, Ampurp85 said: I am glad you made it safely and smoothly. That weather looks great. Could not have asked for better weather. The next few days up to embarkation look dry and not stifling hot. WAAAYTOOO, Jax, Ampurp85 and 6 others 8 1 Quote
Lovetocruise2002 Posted July 5 Author Report Posted July 5 Dinner report: pizza/pasta/tapas won lol We ended up at a place right next door to our hotel because we genuinely could not have made it any further. By the time we ate, everyone, except poor Hubby, was grumpy and tired. The food menu, while probably not too authentic, had something good for everyone. We got several things and shared it all. It’s now 7:38pm here in Barcelona as I am typing this and we are off to bed! Looking forward to some solid sleep as tomorrow will be a full day. We have our private full day tour of Barcelona with LivTours. We are really excited for this as it will take us to Sagrada Familia and Park Güell. Cactus527, Sweety, Jax and 6 others 9 Quote
Jax Posted July 5 Report Posted July 5 I totally missed the fact that you were flying in the daytime. Yikes, that makes for a hard adjustment. The original flight I had booked didn’t leave until 9 pm ish making sleep a bit more likely. Cactus527, Lovetocruise2002 and Ampurp85 3 Quote
Ampurp85 Posted July 5 Report Posted July 5 2 hours ago, Jax said: I totally missed the fact that you were flying in the daytime. Yikes, that makes for a hard adjustment. The original flight I had booked didn’t leave until 9 pm ish making sleep a but more likely. I always do international night flights. It seems to work better for the subsequent jetlag. Sweety, Jax and Cactus527 3 Quote
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