I need to go on a little rant, because I am no impressed at all with Gulf Air. This is the second time that Gulf Air has royally messed up my vacation (we have only flown with them twice). So as the title reads... never again. I will pay more if I have to NOT fly with Gulf Air.
Last New Years eve, We chose (silly us) to fly with Gulf Air to Dubai. We left Thursday evening, and of course the flight was delayed. Since our flight out of Kuwait was delay we missed our connecting flight in Bahrain. What happened? We spend the next few hours trying to push our way, since they have no system at all and it is complete chaos, to get new tickets issued. After finally making our way to the ticket counter since maybe people were budging and whatever else, we got our flight from Bahrain to Dubai for a 2am flight. Well we got to Dubai early in the morning, and essentially still had to pay for our reserved hotel that we ended up not needing. What did Gulf Air do to compensate... NOTHING. Nice hey.
So Now I am even more unimpressed with them. We just got back from a vacay to Sri Lanka... which drum rolllll... Gulf Air also managed to mess up. We were leaving Kuwait at 6pm to fly to Colombo with a layover in Bahrain. Well as it goes the flight was late leaving Kuwait, about 4 hours late, which mean we and everyone else missed their connections. Apparently not one of their flights left on time, causing crazy delays all over the world. Anyways, as myself and Brad guessed, we would have to push and fight our way through people to make it to the ticket counter to see when we could get a new flight to Colombo. Well guess what their next flight is full, oh but in two days we can get on a flight. Really two days in Bahrain :( VERY SAD :( That was the best that they could do for us. We even asked about going else where, anywhere just not Bahrain. Myself and Brad have both been there, so we were less then excited to be there. Anyways after getting our flights re-booked, we fought and pushed to get in the line for hotels and transportation. They have us two nights hotel and food in Bahrain finally. Well we made it to our hotel around 2am... and crashed. Gross hotel, crappy food. Enough said.
We finally made it to the Amazing island of Sri Lanka... two days later than planned. More about our trip later...
Am I done? Nope LOL... just a quick comment about airplane food. So airplanes have a horrible reputation of having terrible food. I would agree it is really gross for the most part. But I will say that in the last few years it has been getting better. By better I mean more tolerable. Myself being a vegetarian, will always pick the veg friendly options, so I think that I avoid the gross, umm what is that, meals that are served. Anyways... On this particular flight from Bahrain to Colombo, after I already hate Gulf Air, and I have just had two days of terrible hotel food, I get this on my flight...
My meal comes to me. I chose the veg options... and the first two items I see are the little salad and little dessert that accompanies every plane meal. It just so happens that it is a potato salad, and rice pudding for dessert. Yuck to both, but whatever. I open us the "main" meal... it just so happens that it is white plain rice, and plain potato curry. That is it... no source of vegetables, or protein. How awful is that. Way to much rice and potato for me... I would rather go hungry :( Again not impressed with Gulf Air...
Thank you for allowing me to rant. Please do not fly with this airline. In our two times flying with them, both times they have messed up, and they don't even compensate for it.
Hope you are all doing great...
Cheers,
Serena
Last New Years eve, We chose (silly us) to fly with Gulf Air to Dubai. We left Thursday evening, and of course the flight was delayed. Since our flight out of Kuwait was delay we missed our connecting flight in Bahrain. What happened? We spend the next few hours trying to push our way, since they have no system at all and it is complete chaos, to get new tickets issued. After finally making our way to the ticket counter since maybe people were budging and whatever else, we got our flight from Bahrain to Dubai for a 2am flight. Well we got to Dubai early in the morning, and essentially still had to pay for our reserved hotel that we ended up not needing. What did Gulf Air do to compensate... NOTHING. Nice hey.
So Now I am even more unimpressed with them. We just got back from a vacay to Sri Lanka... which drum rolllll... Gulf Air also managed to mess up. We were leaving Kuwait at 6pm to fly to Colombo with a layover in Bahrain. Well as it goes the flight was late leaving Kuwait, about 4 hours late, which mean we and everyone else missed their connections. Apparently not one of their flights left on time, causing crazy delays all over the world. Anyways, as myself and Brad guessed, we would have to push and fight our way through people to make it to the ticket counter to see when we could get a new flight to Colombo. Well guess what their next flight is full, oh but in two days we can get on a flight. Really two days in Bahrain :( VERY SAD :( That was the best that they could do for us. We even asked about going else where, anywhere just not Bahrain. Myself and Brad have both been there, so we were less then excited to be there. Anyways after getting our flights re-booked, we fought and pushed to get in the line for hotels and transportation. They have us two nights hotel and food in Bahrain finally. Well we made it to our hotel around 2am... and crashed. Gross hotel, crappy food. Enough said.
We finally made it to the Amazing island of Sri Lanka... two days later than planned. More about our trip later...
Am I done? Nope LOL... just a quick comment about airplane food. So airplanes have a horrible reputation of having terrible food. I would agree it is really gross for the most part. But I will say that in the last few years it has been getting better. By better I mean more tolerable. Myself being a vegetarian, will always pick the veg friendly options, so I think that I avoid the gross, umm what is that, meals that are served. Anyways... On this particular flight from Bahrain to Colombo, after I already hate Gulf Air, and I have just had two days of terrible hotel food, I get this on my flight...
My meal comes to me. I chose the veg options... and the first two items I see are the little salad and little dessert that accompanies every plane meal. It just so happens that it is a potato salad, and rice pudding for dessert. Yuck to both, but whatever. I open us the "main" meal... it just so happens that it is white plain rice, and plain potato curry. That is it... no source of vegetables, or protein. How awful is that. Way to much rice and potato for me... I would rather go hungry :( Again not impressed with Gulf Air...
Thank you for allowing me to rant. Please do not fly with this airline. In our two times flying with them, both times they have messed up, and they don't even compensate for it.
Hope you are all doing great...
Cheers,
Serena
That's terrible!!! Good to know though. I hope that Sri Lanka was at least enjoyable!!
ReplyDeleteSri Lanka was great once we got there... it just made for a very rushed and not relaxing trip, since we were trying to pack everything in with two less days.
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