First, we have found another airport where we don't want to make connections! Frankfurt. We had one hour and 40 minutes to connect (in the same terminal). Long line at passport control followed by long walk to our Gate only to find out that we had to go through Security. Two lines open for First Class and one line open for economy.....long Disney-like lines moving very slowly as we watched the minutes tick off of the clock while knowing that we had another walk to our gate after finishing the security check...dumped our water, put all things metal including our watches into the bins, pulled netbook out to go through separately and gladly kept our shoes on...still watching the minutes tick along (remembering that they close out flights 60 minutes before scheduled time. Finally got our stuff back together and made it to the gate on time. After we boarded, I saw from my window seat that they were removing luggage from the plane. The pilot announced that several people had been 'delayed' at security and didn't make the flight so they had to remove their luggage. A real benefit of flying 1st class...we deplaned first and, therefore, made it to the gate.
It was fun to see the Danube from the air and then again when we got into Budapest. We were met by the Tauck representative as soon as we exited the customs area along with 2 other couples on the same river cruise. Checked into the Marriott for tonight and were greeted with the info. that we had a suite overlooking the Danube and the Chain Bridge. We are now in the Executive Lounge awaiting the keys to our room. Oops, the bell man just came in to tell us that our luggage is in our room and to give us our keys. Complimentary Hungarian beer will be in our room this evening. Could easily like living this way. So nice to be a Platinum Elite in the Marriott Rewards program..... :)
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