I woke up with a massive headache due to lack of sleep. We landed in Honolulu at 6:20am . Since I had 5 hours 14 minutes of layover, I wanted to get out in Honolulu. When I did the Math, it wasn't a good idea. The traffic around in Honolulu is way worse than I had thought.I asked around the ladies who work in airport, they had the same response, too little time to go around as the traffic around is pretty bad. I stuck around. While waiting for my flight, I talked to Shristi cha on phone and then sat at the corner to fall asleep for a bit. It was a good 20 minutes of sleep, I wish it was longer.
The Gate changes to I had to move to Gate 17 to board to Sydney. While waiting, it was announced that the flight is delayed due to Electrical problem in the plane. We weren't told how long, I kept my family in AUS updated. The flight was around 11:20 am or so, soon found out, we are boarding. By then it was maybe about an hour delay. All of us at the Gate were excited thinking we will be flying soon.
Around 12:30 or so
Boarded the plane. To our surprise, we found out, the same electrical issue appeared. Now, they have to fix again and they have to wait for the paperwork. While we waited for the paperwork to reach, I had a thought in my mind, they will need to re-fuel. After couple of minutes of that thought, they announced, "we need to refuel". Oh my my, we had to wait for the fuel to come from somewhere else, soon we found out, we have to Deplane. The worse part was, noone knew when we could fly.
Around 1:30 or so
Stuck in Honolulu, Hawaii. Good or Bad, not sure.
Even with lack for sleep for 2 night in a row, I didn't feel upset. I was just tired. Soon, we found out we will fly at 10:00 PM. We were given options for meal, either the $15 voucher or buffet at the Hotel. I chose the hotel option as I will get chance to get out in Waikiki. I had to wait for an hour and half for the Bus/Shuttle to arrive at the airport. And then, it was another minimum 20 minutes of walk to get to the shuttle from the Gate. It took us another hour to get to the Hotel, it was a 9 miles road.
Around 5pm
Finally, we reached the hotel and after taking the Buffet voucher. The Seafood buffet was awesome. it was all worth the wait. It was pretty tasty and healthy. Plates full of salad and all seafood.
Around 7pm
This is the view of the hotel lounge from the 2nd floor.
After the dinner, we waited at the Hotel an hour for the bus ride to the airport. It took us about 15 minutes in Freeway, I almost fell sleep when I reached airport. It was then time for the Security and then we all boarded and flew on time to Sydney.
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