A long day today with lots of waiting. The ship moved during the night and we were in Nuuk when we woke up.
I was very glad I checked with guest services yesterday to verify our flights because the disembarkation timings showed a very tight connection to make our original flight home. Found out that our flight had been changed- we depart New York City 3 hours later than originally scheduled. The good news is that we arrive in SFO at almost the exact same time as originally scheduled since we are now on a direct flight from New York to San Francisco.
We had to leave our cabin by 8am. Luckily we were able to have breakfast while waiting for our 9:50am meeting time for our bus to the Nuuk airport. An hour later than planned we actually left the ship; and then went thru more lines and boarded our bus for a 10 minute ride to the airport. Got to the airport about 11:45am. The security machine was broken so there was quite a line and some waiting before we got to the Viking lounge where we had coffee, cookies and apples. After a short wait, we lined up to go thru passport control and boarded the plane at 1:45pm.
Almost as soon as we boarded, they were offering mimosas! That made the hour+ long wait for takeoff quite a bit more enjoyable. We finally left Nuuk a little after 3pm for our 3 hour 48 minute flight to New York. Smooth flight- Tibor had a window seat and it was fun to see New York from the air.
We landed at 7:06pm and with the 3 hour time change, the local time was 4:06pm. Tibor and I were the very last ones off the plane (except for the crew). We waited on the bus to the terminal for the crew join us.
There was absolutely no line thru passport control and at 5:06 we were at the baggage carousel where all the rest of the passengers from our flight were waiting for their luggage.
After the luggage arrived and we got our bags, there were no lines for customs and we took the AirTrain over to our gate. We hung out at the gate since all the lounges we have access to were in other terminals. Getting to a terminal with a lounge, required an AirTrain trip and a pass thru a security check. To get back would require another AirTrain trip and another security check. I didn’t want to chance the lines for the security checks so we stayed at the gate. It was pretty quiet at the gate until shortly before boarding time.
It was smooth traveling the rest of the way. Eric picked us up at the San Francisco airport about midnight. We were very happy to be home.
