There are both advantages and disadvantages to being a care free traveller making plans as you go. The potentail downside is when checking into your flight to New Zealand you are asked for your New Zealand exit flight information. Explaining we have nothing booked and will do all that from NZ the flight staff just shrugs telling us they need to enter our information into the computer to check us in...crap.
The advantage of having few plans is when the same airline says they have overbooked their flight and offers transfering you to the next flight two days down the road in business class you can easily say 'yes'. Both of which happened to us on the same night.
Being midnight and having taken an expensive taxi out to the airport Colin and I ran through the rain to different terminals looking for an internet cafe to quickly book a flight. At the cafe the internet was painfully slow and their printer was not working. We figured we might as well take the next flight so we could book our flight at our own pace. So back through the rain we ran, all our bags in tow.
The attendant who was helping us was not the sharpest tool in the shed and as she tried to process our request she squinted at the screen shaking her head while flipping though a small note book for some apparently essential information. At one point she left for a concerning amount of time but when she returned she had everything taken care of. We just spent the last two days on the airlines dime in one of Buenos Aires top Hotels with three course meals included. The best part was the huge comfy bed and we caught up on all the sleep we lost over the last 5 days.
It was nice to be a little spoiled but we are ready to get on with our trip to New Zealand!!!!
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