Day 27 up up and away

Up early brekkie in the hotel and across the road to Union Station, been shorts and tee shirt the whole trip so far and Toronto was in the 30s the whole time so been really lucky with the weather.

Annie under the weather this morning, one cocktail too many. Nice train to the airport. Runs every 15min only has 2 stops, tap on and off with presto app on our phones and it takes u right into Terminal 1

Very modern airport luckily we struck a quiet day. Walk to Terminal 6 not too far. We had been pre warned Air Canada has 3 gates for international travellers and a dedicated gate 3 for travellers to the US. For some reason all the security checks to get to our boarding gate gave annie a real hard time. At one stage they even took her boarding pass and walked away with it. Must have known she trying to smuggle kids toys out of canada. The customer guy asked so many questions, thought we might be having to stay for awhile.

Turns out the staff on this gate are all American and paid by US customs. The really great news is u dont need to be checked by the LA customs just walk to pick up your bag...yippee.

Air Canada have a great baggage system that i reckon all airlines should adopt. We got sent a msg to confirm they have received your baggage and then as its loaded u get another msg confirming its been loaded on the plane. By sheer luck we were sitting front row at the gate and saw our bags go up the baggage ramp into the planes hold and as soon as the bags past what must have been a scanner, the very next second we got the loaded msg.

20min taxi ride to my sons house $28.. Limos taxis uber luft vehicles cant do pick ups at arrivals. The airport runs a free shuttle bus service to the perimeter of the airport to any area dedicated for them, takes about 10min.

Took a pic of an airport tug for Harlan to see as the maker is HarlanRead more