Saturday, June 7, 2008

Arrival in Juneau

Our flights were relatively uneventful. Of course, it was cloudy in Seattle and cloudy in Juneau so we had a bit of turbulence landing in both cities. At one point while we were landing in Seattle we hit a pretty good pocket of turbulence and Ben takes out his barf bag and just passes it over to me. Gee, I guess I'm pretty predictable when it come to flying.
We landed in Juneau at 10:30 Alaska time which is 2 hours behind Denver. We were booked into a hotel near the airport (I mean...literally about 500' from the airport) only to arrive at be told that they don't have the double room available that we booked and their room rate is 50% higher then what we were quoted when we booked on line. It seems that Mike's company travel agency screwed up. I guess we looked pretty done in (the kids were curled up on the lobby couch) so it we could make do the first night she would find us a suite for the rest of the week, cut the normal rate by 25% and comp us the last night. Sounded really good to us late last night!
We're just waiting for a room to open up this morning and we can head off to explore Juneau.