FUN-travel:Chile
March 24, 2009 by Susan Clarke
Are First Impressions Really Lasting Impressions?
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Good news – Off to Santiago. Get earlier flight for $40 change fee per person
- Bad news – get hit with $262 Reciprocity Fee in Chile
- Good News – Marriott hotel, 2 room corner suite & executive lounge free. (Mr. C’s payback for all that Pasadena travel)
Day 6 – Monday, February 2, 2009 – hazy, warm
- Good News – Executive lounge on 23rd floor, panoramic views of snow capped Andes mountains and Santiago
- Bad News – very smoggy
- Good News – book half day private city tour thru hotel, includes funicular ride to top of hill
- Bad News – guide irritating, incompetent, & inept in English
- Bad News – on top of that, not much to see & still very irritated about Reciprocity Fee
- Good News- get dropped in downtown
- Bad News – thieves everywhere!
- Bad News – get typical lunch of fish, no mas bueno! Can’t eat, spit out, should have had the Cevice
- Good News – try again for typical Chilean fish dinner, very nice!
Day Rating – 4
Day 7 – Tuesday, February 3, 2009 – hazy, warm
- Good News – 9:45 am wine tour, 2 vineyards. Aquitania – boutique & Concho Y Toro – massive
- Good News – Lunch, typical Chilean tourist restaurant in country
Day Rating – 7 (Must be the wine but still pissed about the Reciprocity Fee)
Day 8 – Wednesday, February 4, 2009
- Good News – leaving Chile, going to Buenos Aires!
- Bad News – flight doesn’t leave til 8 pm.
- Good News – take walk to Plaza Los Dominicos, Chilean Arts & Crafts market
- Good News – go to airport
- Bad News – had 2 itineraries and missed flight
- Good News – get on next flight no charge
- Bad News – get charged $40 for overweight bags
- Good News – get the hell out of Chile!
First Impression is the Lasting Impression
Santiago – 4 (still pissed about the Reciprocity Fee & wished they’d gone to Mendoza)
- Concho Y Toro Diablo