A short and bad night. Full room again, lots coming and going. I am full awake before 6 am. No reason to stay. Fast check out (just leave the room card) and then the 100 m to the light railway to the airport. Again 3 USD is a reasonable price for an airport connection.
Of course much to early at the airport. It is 7 hours to my flight and luggage check in is possible 6 hours in advance. I get breakfast (1 scone and a bad, watery coffee) at Starbucks (the only thing available). Loading my phone a little bit, which I forgot last night.
Exact 6 hours before back at the luggage check in (Sky Priority is nice and fast), send my luggage and then fast lane through security. I just forgot about the liter bottle of water in the backpack – ups… no loss there.
I tried, but traveling with Priority and a First class segment doesn’t give you access to the Delta lounge (I fly Delta today). And the lounge I could access with my credit card got so bad reviews, that I find one lonely power outlet in a corner of the airport and listen to some audio book and sit and wit (boring). A quick lunch at a Asian fast food place (not very good), and finally boarding starts on the first leg to Atlanta.
Good seats, enough legroom (Comfort+), 9” IFE screen with a good choice of movies. The food service was a snack box wit some Doritos and chocolate, and you got free drinks. A little bit more on a 4 h 40 minute flight would have been nice. But friendly staff. Lot’s of turbulence that made the crew sit down half of the flight (but I didn’t feel any big bump).
![Alien activity?](http://www.travelelg.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190424_143920-300x225.jpg)
At Atlanta it is a fast change of planes (and terminal). Just a big big airport. Not nice at all. But easy to navigate if you know where to go. So 15 minutes after I get to the gate, the boarding starts. Again on Delta, this time on a B757-200 in First class. I am getting tired. Nice seats, 11” IFE screen, same movies but the flight is only a little bit over an hour long. Again the snack box (real food would be nice), the drinks and the staff that has to buckle down because of turbulence.
![Landing at New Orleans airport](http://www.travelelg.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190424_181323-300x225.jpg)
Finally the plane arrives at the old New Orleans Airport (the new one is supposed to open later this year) at 23:30 local time. The luggage is already there. Warm and humid – I don’t like that so much. Get an airport shuttle that gets me to my hostel.
OMG… there at 0:25, check inn like in a prison camp. He could have been German. All about rules, where to do what and what not to do (“Only eat at that table!” etc.). I got the first night payed and canceled the last night because of the early flight the 28th. He takes his flashlight ad shows me to the room. No room has a lock! The private that all hostels have for electronics/computers is an IKEA plactic cube that I can brake with to fingers. I combination with no locks at the door – fantastic (irony!). THen there is no light at the beds, no electricity – mobile phone flashlight to find the bed. No place to put your glasses or anything. The hostel is clean and newly painted, but I don’t feel, that my stuff is secure when all rooms are open and you see the high/drunk people come home from the French Quarters.
So I go on Trivago, find an alternative for the hostel (which is difficult on a festival weekend) and book at 1:25 in the night two nights at the Springhill Suites by Marriott just 10 minutes walking distance away… 345 USD for two nights… I hope I can get some money back from the hostel. But I won’t stay here…
This night I have to sleep with my glasses on and my passport etc. under the pillow …