After almost 25hrs of travelling to get to Santiago and seated cramped in a spot for so
long, we were tired and relived that we finally landed at the airport! The view
as we were landing, crossing the Pacific Ocean and into Santiago was simply spectacular! I was a
flight attendant for 4 years and have never seen anything so beautiful up in
the air whilst landing. We took Qantas from PER to SYD and our flight was
delayed for almost two hours. Thank goodness for Qantas Club lounge! I tell you
when an airport has almost no facilities at all like the Perth a/p, it was
really great that we had somewhere comfortable to sit and rest, eat, drink and
use the internet at 2am in the morning. We transit 3 hrs in SYD and flew to AKL
and had a stop over for ~50mins and the rest of the 14hrs flight into SCL. As
you can imagine, we were very very tired when we arrived and all we want to do
was to get to our hostel asap. There were lotsa men standing outside the
arrival gate, all wanting to give you a ride to your desired location at a rip
off price and we fell for that! We were too tired to neither think nor bargain
and in the end we got to our Hostel De Sammy at 25000 pesos (~AUD$58) later. We
were charged about double the price of what is should be.
Hostel de Sammy is not too bad though I expected something better from the
great reviews given on two different websites. The breakfast here is great!
Chris cooks pancakes (banana+apple) and eggs every morning and free internet
access. Common shower areas are clean. We paid USD$15 each per night for
private double bed with common shower. We have no concrete plans yet but we
made a local friend onboard and might go to a World Cup qualifying round of
Brazil Vs. Chile this weekend!
