Today is the worst day ever since we initially left Australia in June. The airline has lost our luggage. Let’s backtrack first.
We awoke at 3.15am bleary eyed from no sleep as the street outside the hotel had been cranking the night before and the noise had kept us awake. We headed up the street to meet Victor, our taxi driver who drove us the 45 minute trip to Cancun International Airport. The airport was absolutely packed….not!
We were about the only people there are that time of the morning and we had to wander around for ages until a coffee shop finally opened and we could get our café fix.
The plane (Copa Airlines) left on time and we flew the two hours and fifteen minutes to Panama. The highlight was flying over the Pacific Ocean near the Panama Canal and seeing lots of ships lined up for passage through to the Atlantic Ocean.
Our baggage and ourselves had supposedly been checked through to our final destination, San Jose in Costa Rica. We had five hours to kill in Panama with not a whole lot to do. We ate lunch at the one and only café in the airport, wandered around the shops and exhibits and tried to sleep for a while. 
Dan had the Panamanian equivalent to a VB, a Balboa, and bought two very expensive and ultra-tacky fridge magnets of the canal.
Our plane (Mexicana Airlines) left on time and we were off for a short 50 minute flight to San Jose. We landed at San Jose, cleared immigration and headed down to baggage. It became obvious after around 30 minutes of waiting that our bags weren’t going to arrive. An airline representative came and over and between his poor English and our even poorer Spanish, he tried to find out which part of the world our bags might be in. No luck though. We then got palmed off to another representative from the airline who bore the full force of my fury at them losing our bags. We filled in our paperwork, were told to come back in 24 hours if our bags had not arrived and we would be eligible for an intial $100 US compensation. We left the airport (along with a number of other people) with literally the clothes we were wearing and a small daypack each and not all that confident that we would every see our bags again.
We arrived at the hotel and rang back to the airport as requested at 7.30pm for an update. Again, language was a problem, so the front desk rang on our behalf to be told that the luggage would arrive the following evening around 11.00pm. Still, we really weren’t all that confident in seeing it again. We have a problem in what to do if the luggage fails to turn up as we leave early on our tour on the 30th and have to have at least some clothing and items other than what we are wearing. We will also be traveling all around the country making it difficult for the airline to find us. We’re missing one of my passports, birth certificate and money (split up in bags for security reasons) and also electrical cords for our computer and camera not to mention most of our belongings whilst we are traveling. We’re trying not to think about the worst case scenario though that we will never see our bags again.
Tan decided she would model her new sarong, an airline blanket. She has two outfits now.
We awoke at 3.15am bleary eyed from no sleep as the street outside the hotel had been cranking the night before and the noise had kept us awake. We headed up the street to meet Victor, our taxi driver who drove us the 45 minute trip to Cancun International Airport. The airport was absolutely packed….not!
We were about the only people there are that time of the morning and we had to wander around for ages until a coffee shop finally opened and we could get our café fix.The plane (Copa Airlines) left on time and we flew the two hours and fifteen minutes to Panama. The highlight was flying over the Pacific Ocean near the Panama Canal and seeing lots of ships lined up for passage through to the Atlantic Ocean.
Our baggage and ourselves had supposedly been checked through to our final destination, San Jose in Costa Rica. We had five hours to kill in Panama with not a whole lot to do. We ate lunch at the one and only café in the airport, wandered around the shops and exhibits and tried to sleep for a while. Dan had the Panamanian equivalent to a VB, a Balboa, and bought two very expensive and ultra-tacky fridge magnets of the canal.Our plane (Mexicana Airlines) left on time and we were off for a short 50 minute flight to San Jose. We landed at San Jose, cleared immigration and headed down to baggage. It became obvious after around 30 minutes of waiting that our bags weren’t going to arrive. An airline representative came and over and between his poor English and our even poorer Spanish, he tried to find out which part of the world our bags might be in. No luck though. We then got palmed off to another representative from the airline who bore the full force of my fury at them losing our bags. We filled in our paperwork, were told to come back in 24 hours if our bags had not arrived and we would be eligible for an intial $100 US compensation. We left the airport (along with a number of other people) with literally the clothes we were wearing and a small daypack each and not all that confident that we would every see our bags again.We arrived at the hotel and rang back to the airport as requested at 7.30pm for an update. Again, language was a problem, so the front desk rang on our behalf to be told that the luggage would arrive the following evening around 11.00pm. Still, we really weren’t all that confident in seeing it again. We have a problem in what to do if the luggage fails to turn up as we leave early on our tour on the 30th and have to have at least some clothing and items other than what we are wearing. We will also be traveling all around the country making it difficult for the airline to find us. We’re missing one of my passports, birth certificate and money (split up in bags for security reasons) and also electrical cords for our computer and camera not to mention most of our belongings whilst we are traveling. We’re trying not to think about the worst case scenario though that we will never see our bags again.
Tan decided she would model her new sarong, an airline blanket. She has two outfits now.
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