Now what?

Got to the Orlando Airport in plenty of time, had a good dinner (and beer) in a airport restaurant. Settled into the wait mode and, during a short walk-about, discovered our flight has been delayed from 7:52 to 8:54, cutting our transfer time to the Vienna flight in Amsterdam down to 32 minutes.

Went to the hospitality desk and was conditionally re-booked on a flight from Amsterdam to Vienna about 5 hours after our arrival in Amsterdam. Not happy campers.

Had arranged for a pickup at the Vienna airport to go to the hotel and, if the time is screwed up, what then? Emailed the hotel with the details and 'more will be revealed'.

Not the greatest of starts.

Ok....Page two for today:

Seems that the pilot for the delayed plane out of Orlando hit the gas a bit and we got into Amsterdam just 32 minutes before our connecting flight was due to depart. Couple that with the 25 minute delay of the Vienna bound flight and we made it!!

Only to have the luggage NOT make it. 

The KLM service counter was aware of the non-loaded baggage and vowed to send it to the hotel as soon as it arrived in Vienna. Emails from KLM assured us the game was in hand.

We got our car into the hotel (after waiting for the driver for 20 minutes) and took a nap. Very nice hotel room, crappy rainy weather.

Dinner in the hotel, waiting for luggage, walk around downtown Vienna tomorrow morning before going to the ship.

Oh!, did I mention the ship has been changed due to low river levels?

Night.

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