New Norwegian flights to North America

Miami was a random choice for a trip combining work and travel: I had to get to the U.S and while browsing through different travel options I came across new flight offers from Norwegian. I am generally suspicious of certain budget airlines (traumatised by Ryanair) but with less than 400€ for a return fare I just had to get it. Obviously this won’t serve you food, drinks, or even headphones and blankets (!). The new Norwegian planes are as good as any others. They have bigger windows that change colour depending of the time of the day. So you can never close them. This is supposed to make your jet-lag easier. To be honest I didn’t notice anything different. But it did make me less claustrophobic. The movie and music selection was excellent and free, the seats as big as any other airline, and everything generally nice and clean. Then the bad stuff: food and drinks. So if you want hot food you have to order it prior to your flight. And yes, it is a rip off. There is no hot food for purchase once in the plane. I mean it is perfectly ok to know that you have to pay for everything but that everything was pretty poor: like a sandwich, muffin and instant coffee, outrageously overpriced, of course. I did have a tea for 3 euros so if you fly with them, take your own food! Another thing that really annoyed me was that they limited walking in the aisles (due to U.S laws, as they claimed?!) so you were not allowed to queue for toilets standing up, for example. This, I never heard before. As far as I know, no other airline does this. I have been to many nice corridor drinking parties on my way to the States before (British Airways, always the best aisle parties and free booze!) so this was to be missed. But overall: 400€ for a return to States: hell yeah I’ll go hungry!

 

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A is for Airport Sleeping

To save up some money and time I sometimes sleep at airports. It is definitely not the nicest experience in the world, especially if you will be taking a long flight the next day: at least two sleepless nights and a jet-lag! However, memories fade and so I decided to sleep at Oslo Gardermoen on my way to the US. I am not particularly kitted out in terms of airport sleeping. You see lots of people with miniature air-mattresses, pillows and stuff. The best places are taken first so to avoid the freezing stone floors I try to map out sofas, chairs and cafes. I was told that in Oslo airport, there is a childrens play area with a soft flooring that makes an excellent mattress. However I could not find it so I set out for the second best: a cafe. All the cafes downstairs have leather sofas so I sneaked into this beauty: Peppes Pizza!

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Not only I got an entire sofa to myself, the cafe was dark, warm and quiet. As an extra bonus it had plugs everywhere so I could charge my gadgets before the flight. Later at night the cafe became full as other travellers discovered it. Sometime around 5am the cleaners came, switching on the lights and making noice but noone told us to leave.

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I often listen to music when sleeping in public places. This was my lullaby:

//www.youtube.com/embed/1vrEljMfXYoDefinitely the best airport sleeping experience I ever had. P.S Check out this website for airport sleeping tips: http://www.sleepinginairports.net

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