By Dean Botsford (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #393) on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - 5:35 am: |
Well, we were on island in late June for our 8th or 9th time.
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By David Stewart (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #544) on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - 7:33 am: |
Hi Dean, Welcome to the UK,
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By Peter (BonaireTalker - Post #11) on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - 11:25 am: |
Yes, the KLM online booking system is excellent, Dean. You also get e-tickets and can check-in online so all you need to do is drop your bags at Heathrow.
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By Gwen M (BonaireTalker - Post #11) on Thursday, October 12, 2006 - 11:30 am: |
Hi Dean,
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By Julia Graves (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #978) on Thursday, October 12, 2006 - 12:57 pm: |
However the night flight can be a lot cheaper! Make sure you have a good look around the dates you could fly. We saved loads by flying out on Friday teatime rather than Saturday morning and will get a bit more time on Bonaire. Bob will only have to take an extra afternoon off. 8 days and counting. (22 posts and counting )
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By Brian (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1825) on Friday, October 13, 2006 - 2:24 am: |
We have done both flights and for some reason most times we have been on the night flight. Usually KLM give you a UK to AMS flight with only 2 hours before the AMS BON flight which can be tight if they have delays or cancellations. We had a cancelled flight and KLM switched us to BA and if the flight landed on time we had 15 minutes to get across Schipol before take off. We made it and some how our bags did as well. The scary bit was all the other luggage and passengers had gone and the belt stopped, 5 minutes later the belt restarted and our bags appeared.
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By Brian (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1826) on Friday, October 13, 2006 - 2:37 am: |
What we do now is to turn up very early and ask KLM if we can take an earlier flight. We did this in September and rather than leave the UK in the evening we left early afternoon and took the train into Amsterdam, had a couple of beers and a Thai meal before returning to the airport. When we arrived at the gate and handed in our boarding cards we found we had been off loaded and our seats re-allocated as KLM had not updated the system. Fortunately they found us seats nearer the front and a spare seat as well.
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By Dean Botsford (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #395) on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 5:01 am: |
Much thanks for the link and for the stories, hope to make good use of the information in 2007.
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By Brian (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #2057) on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 12:33 am: |
Dean you may also want to check out Arkefly who are about to start flying AMS - Bonaire, it would mean booking separate tickets to Amsterdam but they appear to much cheaper than KLM.
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