Our flight today from Maroochydore to Hobart was due to depart at 10:35.
I had booked a taxi to collect us from home at 8 o’clock.
We decided on a taxi because, with Mick’s half price fares, it is only around $50 to the airport. When I looked at parking the car for the 16 days it was going to cost me just under $500 so a cab seemed the prudent way to go.
Around 7 o’clock we were just sitting around watching TV doing nothing so I said to Mick did he want me to call the Cab now as we may as well be sitting at the airport as sitting at home.
We got to the airport, checked in in plenty of time and just waited for our flight .
Our flight from Maroochydore to Melbourne was it smooth and uneventful.
We arrived into Melbourne on gate two and our boarding pass to Hobart said we needed to be at gate four so it wasn’t far to go at all. We had a 90 minute wait between flights and at one point, I decided that I needed to go to the restroom, and it was when I arrived back at the gate that I realised that the board did not say the next plane was going to Hobart 😱
Minor panic as we looked for a gate that had some Virgin staff to double check our tickets.
Sure enough our flight had been moved to gate 10 luckily we had plenty of time and we made our way to gate 10 ready for our next flight .
The flight from Melbourne to Hobart is only around an hour, and it is always quite rushed. The poor cabin crew barely have enough time to do all their work before we land.
It took a while to collect our bags and we made our way to the Sky Bus collection point. There was a bus waiting, but apparently, we had just missed one bus, and this bus was not leaving for another 15 minutes.
The lady bus driver asked what hotel we were staying at and she suggested we get off at one which is the grand chancellor and walk a very short distance to our hotel rather than waiting on the bus to go right around its route and get off at our stop, which is the last stop.
She was correct and it was a very short walk just around the corner and we checked in at about 6:20pm.
I mentioned to the reception staff that I had ordered some groceries and they should have been delivered (I had a notification on my phone that came through when we were in Melbourne saying that they had been delivered)
We were told yes, indeed our groceries had arrived and had been put into our room, including putting the cold goods into the fridge. Great service.
We made our way upstairs to our one bedroom apartment where we will be staying for the next week. The apartment is lovely, quite large with a full kitchen lovely big bathroom and the laundry in the bathroom .
We unpacked our bags made a cup of tea and then later made our way downstairs to the restaurant for dinner.
After dinner, it was back up to our room for a little bit of TV and an early night. It had been a big day.
