Manila to Melbourne

We woke up to a lovely bright morning, and was thankful for an acceptable wake up time just before 9 with an added luxury of time for a coffee before we set off! We used grab for a taxi to the airport which highlighted the rip off we got when we arrived, but after seeing some fellow travellers get into a street row with a local tuk tuk driver, we were thankful for our driver and gave him 100peso tip! Within moments of arriving at the airport, we both had a spring in our steps as we walked past all the queues to see our check in desk was practically empty. The happiness continued with speedy immigration and security! However, the happiness slowly deteriorated here... The man took my water (acceptable) followed by deoderant and then attempted to also throw my skincare! I had to step in here however as clearly the man was thick, stating it was over 100ml (the bottle said 125ml but it was see through and very clearly nearly empty!) Anyway, with time to spare we got ourselves a bagel and coffee and stocked up on snacks and treat ourselves to evian water before going to our gate where we were greeted with more stupidity. Here, our bags were checked once more along with our bodies and our brand new sealed evian water was taken from us!! The plane wasn't full which meant people started to spread out and take advantage of the space. Being us, we thought we'd ask first which backfired. We were told the seats were taken but kept seeing locals move. It then moved to some backseat empty seats and was told these were resting seats for the crew...later finding a local woman sat there and to top it off, they had no bottles of water for us! Get us to Melbourne!!Read more