In Sydney

[theducks]

With many thanks to Qantas VH-EBX (a 747-300). My god Qantas at Perth airport is a total SNAFU.. there are huge lines, lots of desks for baggage drop, but only one guy actually accepting the luggage. There are more people marshalling the rowdy lines than there are behind the desks. I can't help but think this isn't a great situation for anyone except Qantas... we did get seats together, despite seperate bookings, by checking in online.

So the Hotels we're staying at have internets, but for $25-$28/day. With us being here 8 days, we worked out that it would be cheaper to just buy a Three Mobile Broadband package outright, then cancel it after a month (no contract, woo!). So that's what I did. Maybe we can also use it to webcast the wedding or something silly like that..

In any case, that plan comes with a Huawei E220 modem, and 3Gb for $30 month, which is awesome. We'll check usage after this month and I suspect next time only activate it for $15/month for 1Gb of data. The service requires a phone number, which AFAICT, can only be used to send SMSes. I guided the newbie sales girl (who admittedly, was very helpful and nice) through her online system and ended up with 043344DUCK, which pleases me greatly. Maybe one day I could port that number across to my Virgin prepaid and get a different number for this service.. but we'll see.

Plans for today are to be touristy, once we get out of the hotel (flight arrived at 6:30AM, got to hotel at 7:30AM, went back to sleep until 10:30AM)

Edited to add: Saw my first A380 at Sydney.. they're kinda big, but not actually as big as you'd think..

Comments

[frenchiephish.livejournal.com]

I warned you about Perth airport ;)

[theducks.livejournal.com]

srsly. I am appauled by the fact there was only one guy checking everyone in for economy.

Yes, everyone got on their flights, but with the bare minimum of time. I bet the shop holders are pissed people no longer have time to browse before flights..

[frenchiephish.livejournal.com]

Even during the day they often have a bunch of busy flights going to the east coast simultaneously and have only three or four people on...

Just because it's electronic checkin doesn't make it any quicker and people wonder why there's more air-rage.

[luyer.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised that number isn't on some kind of blacklist, given what other letters are on the 'D' on cell phones.

Over here you can't get a license plate with the Google ASN in it due to the last 2 digits. (There's an exception for people whose car was manufactured in 1969.)

[theducks.livejournal.com]

Ahh yes, but you forget.. your adopted country was founded by puritans.

Ours was founded by convicts.