Virgin Atlantic - Upper Class experience - HKG -> SYD

Citycheck at HK Central is such a fab invention... allowing me to check in before going to church and lunch... even have time to do some final shopping at CWB before heading to the airport.

We enjoyed the new Virgin "pieces" luggage allowance system.... we had 5 check-in luggages weighing over 100kg! insane! I can blame Mrs Chan for her 13 books, or blame me for some car care products and an iron.

Mrs Chan had a final minute crave for Cafe de Coral's baked pork chop rice at the HK airport... and they've sold out! She resorted to a very expensive ($45HKD) bowl of fish ball noodles:


and some deep fried fish skins:


Still got some time to kill at the lounge and took a nice hot shower before boarding.




Not a bad lounge at all, but nowhere near the CX lounge in HK or SQ lounge in Singapore.

Food is fine... pan fried sole fillet washed down with a glass of Burgundy red


Almost a full cabin in J... only 2-3 seats empty.


The "leg shot"


The seat has comfy leather that folds down to become a flat "bed". Not as good as Air NZ, but a flat bed is a flat bed! wonderful to stretch out on a night flight.

The advantage of these 45 degree angled seats is that we can choose our own take off/landing seating position. Like this :)


Bye bye HK....


Ambience is pretty chic...


Dinner was served 1 hour after take off. With zero expectation going into this meal, I was pleasantly surprised by the very edible quality of the good. May be Richard Branson did do something in response to the infamous food complaint letter.

Entree - Salad with caramelised chestnuts, bacon bits, cherry tomatoes and truffled vinaigrette. Quite nice!


Main - chilli beef with rice - quite nice as well!


Cheese platter and apple dessert - yum...


Love the salt and pepper shakers...


Wa hahahahaha...



Managed to snore for about 3-4 hours ... and breakfast was served 1 hour before landing:

Fresh fruit and yoghurt; Danish.


English breakfast - bacon, mushrooms, tomato and scrambled eggs. I wonder how they do scramble eggs on a plane... although it doesn't look that great, the taste was very good!


I have never had such a wet Sydney landing...


Summary....
* Service - efficient and thorough.
* Seat/bed - decent.
* Food - good.
* Lounge - good.

Air tickets courtesy of AMEX.