Originally Posted by
Jay5150
Novotel Eiffel Tower:
http://www.novotel.com/novotel/fiche...he_hotel.shtml
In the picture, it is the one with all the red around the windows. As you can see it is very close to the Eiffel Tower and right on the river. Very close to grocery and metra stops. Has a good workout facility, indoor pool etc. They have crew discounts on services and food but I can't quote them off the top of my head.
They have a crew lounge for airline only. Many airlines stay there (DAL alone has 3 - CVG, JFK & ATL). Standard drill is:
Everybody go get some wine, beer, cheese, pate', bread etc... and meet in the crew room around 5 or 6ish. Drink and tell lies for awhile and round up a group to go out for dinner and more drinks.
Caution: this is one of the hardest overnights to make it out of said crew lounge as you often end up staying there shooting the breeze and just going for more booze runs.
All in all, usually a fun time on this one.
Nice Place,
Well the best we can offer going the other way is the "dorm".
http://www.radisson.com/hotels/jp/narita/671 Still a good layover with of course the high school reunion in the sports bar most nights. The FAs in general stay away (too tired, too broke, too tired of pilots
). Same story, meet up place to either head downtown for dinner or just stay in the area. Bad news it it's a bus ride (hotel provides regular schedule) or 5 min pilot walk to other places near by.
Now the good news for 75/76 guys. Out of MSP we do 14 day (may go back to 12 with better rigs) in Asia. We could use a 76 for the Guangzhou (China) run real bad. There has been talk on and off about taking a 300 out or using a big bus but so far its still a 757-200. Here is the place we all try and go though.
http://saipan.regency.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp
Guam isn't too bad. But, for history buffs and buffonery boys Saipan can't be beat. Plus, there are a ton of other Chineese cities (with populations over 4 million) we've never heard of just waiting. And, we've had big wigs in Viet Nam looking around.
It can truely be Northwest Orient I mean Delta Orient again.
Ferd