Note: instead of posting photos here, you can see my photos at pbase.com/picsels/vietnam 1 January 2010 - Happy New Year!!! After leaving Melbourne at 1.10am, we flew to Kuala Lumpur via Jakarta. At KLIA we caught the driverless aerotrain to the satellite building to visit the Premium Plaza Lounge which I had pre-booked for 5 hours. Our time in the Premium Plaza Lounge at KLIA was instead cut short when our itinerary was changed so that we had to fly via Jakarta (where we had to stay in the plane the whole time), instead of directly to KL. We stopped at Harrods for a coffee and finally boarded the plane to Hanoi. Arrived at Hanoi around 1pm to find our pre-paid transfer didn't turn up (apparently they were given different details to those provided to us).
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