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more dining

King Ribs
we picked up 3 combo dinners of King ribs. paul and i ate 1 for dinner in our room one evening and we had divided up the other 2 dinners into tupperware containers for lunches/snacks. our darling son arrived on december 24 and scoffed down the king rib leftovers in less than 24 hours.

TULIP
we dined at tulip 2x and both times meals were wonderful and the service was good. per usual i had the chicken sate' and paul had the mixed grill.

all meals excellent
all staff at all restaurants attentive
especially happy with Pam Pam restaurant.



FLIGHTS

we bought our air thru priceline. (never again)

1. our flight on dec 20 from boston to aruba was on Delta with a connection in atlanta. by the time our flight left the gate on dec 20 early a.m., we had missed our connection as we were running so late.

(plane had to be de-iced a couple of times and then there was a medical emergency onboard, then we had to be de-iced again, then there was no gate staff to back us out of the gate area.)

2. in atlanta after crying and having a melt down, delta put us on a flight to miami as we had missed our connection to aruba.

3. in miami we were then put on AA for their flight into aua. that flight was very late and we did not get in til after 11 pm.

return
1. our flight on dec 31 (United) was ok and on time once we boarded. we were denied our boarding passes and delayed at the counterin aruba for the better part of 75 minutes due to priceline's error in a ticket number. finally all was corrected and we got to dulles and then on to boston.

and united charges $44 for the "privilege" to sit in the wing emergency row!
how ridiculous.
the emergency rows were empty on the flight from aua to washington
no one was willing to pay the up charge!

priceline/name your own price = never again for airtickets.
i'll stick with booking them myself with AA or UsAir.


We had a very enjoyable time.
Again, met lots of nice folks and had a good time.