Stranded, Part II
...and so it goes. Our flight from Dallas was delayed due to bad weather. Missed our connecting flight to Manila. So here we are at the San Francisco International Airport. We called to book a hotel, it turned out the guy on the line is from a call center in --- get this -- India! And the room was going to cost $269.00. We're all tired and hungry and grumpy so what the hey, we decided to flop down and claim a corner in the airport lobby. We even have a security guard watching over us tonight. Must I complain? Nahh
About 16 hours later, 3:00 pm on 06/02/17, we are still at the San Francisco Airport waiting to check into our 11:30 pm flight. We then get the news that there has been a "terrorist" (not confirmed terrorist yet) attack at the Resort in Manila. The Resort is a area of hotels, restaurant and a casino that is right across the street from the Manila airport. To exit the airport in Manila you have to go through this area. It is probably a good thing we missed our flight last night as our plan would be arriving at the airport as this "terrorist" attack continued.
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Our plan is to upon check in to find out if Philippine Airlines (PAL) is even going to make the flight. One option PAL may have is to route the flight to Cebu. If this happens we could take a ferry then a bus back home avoiding the mess in Manila. If (PAL) cancels the flight we will see about getting a credit for our tickets and head back to Kansas.
Update 06/04/17
The PAL flight left San Francisco on time to go to Manila. We got to Manila about 4:30 am on 06/03/17. On the hotel shuttle we found out that the incident at the Resort was probably a botched robbery. Some dumb-dumb went into the casino, started shooting it up and started setting gaming tables on fire. He was grabbing poker chips and had about 113,000,000 pesos ($2,250,000) worth of chips. He then went to a room, poured gas on a blanket, wrapped himself up and set himself on fire. It is unknown if this was a robbery or a dumb-dumb who lost a lot of money and went back to steal his money back. This dumb-dumb caused the death of 38 people, most by smoke inhalation.
Except for increased security at the airport, it did not appear that there was an increase of security in the rest of Manila.
On 06/03/17, after a nap, we obtained new tickets to home in Hinunangan for Tuesday. On Monday we will go to the embassy and get JJ's new passport and head home on Tuesday.
Thank you for following.
...and so it goes. Our flight from Dallas was delayed due to bad weather. Missed our connecting flight to Manila. So here we are at the San Francisco International Airport. We called to book a hotel, it turned out the guy on the line is from a call center in --- get this -- India! And the room was going to cost $269.00. We're all tired and hungry and grumpy so what the hey, we decided to flop down and claim a corner in the airport lobby. We even have a security guard watching over us tonight. Must I complain? Nahh
About 16 hours later, 3:00 pm on 06/02/17, we are still at the San Francisco Airport waiting to check into our 11:30 pm flight. We then get the news that there has been a "terrorist" (not confirmed terrorist yet) attack at the Resort in Manila. The Resort is a area of hotels, restaurant and a casino that is right across the street from the Manila airport. To exit the airport in Manila you have to go through this area. It is probably a good thing we missed our flight last night as our plan would be arriving at the airport as this "terrorist" attack continued.
Fox News Report
Our plan is to upon check in to find out if Philippine Airlines (PAL) is even going to make the flight. One option PAL may have is to route the flight to Cebu. If this happens we could take a ferry then a bus back home avoiding the mess in Manila. If (PAL) cancels the flight we will see about getting a credit for our tickets and head back to Kansas.
Update 06/04/17
The PAL flight left San Francisco on time to go to Manila. We got to Manila about 4:30 am on 06/03/17. On the hotel shuttle we found out that the incident at the Resort was probably a botched robbery. Some dumb-dumb went into the casino, started shooting it up and started setting gaming tables on fire. He was grabbing poker chips and had about 113,000,000 pesos ($2,250,000) worth of chips. He then went to a room, poured gas on a blanket, wrapped himself up and set himself on fire. It is unknown if this was a robbery or a dumb-dumb who lost a lot of money and went back to steal his money back. This dumb-dumb caused the death of 38 people, most by smoke inhalation.
Except for increased security at the airport, it did not appear that there was an increase of security in the rest of Manila.
On 06/03/17, after a nap, we obtained new tickets to home in Hinunangan for Tuesday. On Monday we will go to the embassy and get JJ's new passport and head home on Tuesday.
Thank you for following.
Praying for your safety and that you will be able to get home soon!
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