We had a great time in Vegas, saw some shows, went to the World Market Center and worked a few days. Then it was time for our red eye flight home on Allegiant Sunday night.

We flew Allegiant out of Lansing, Michigan. It’s a direct flight and we have flown it a dozen times without delay…….not this time. This was unusual and just the way it is. We checked in at the regular time and found the flight to be delayed. We checked our bags and got our boarding passes at about 10 pm.

The excuse for the delay was that the pilot was over extended and had to get some sleep before we flew…..sounded like a good idea to me. It was not too bad for us, the flight was a red eye and supposed to take off at midnight and was delayed until 6am.

We always get a room for the last day, because I do not like checking out at 11 am and then having no where to rest until midnight. So, we just called the Golden Nugget and they said it would be no problem to get out room back and after checking our luggage and getting our boarding passes we went back to the hotel. I went to bed and George went to the video poker machines!! I slept for 3 hours and then went back to the airport.

They only bad thing was that we had returned our rental car and had to pay for a cab both ways to the Golden Nugget. On the way downtown we got a female driver and I thought….”good” she will be fair and not try to lang haul us—-WRONG! She drove us right through the tunnel and on to the highway and continued to drive at 50 MPH all the way downtown. It took forever to get to the hotel. I didn’t say anything until we were at the Nugget and then I told her I was not paying the $32 on the meter and that what she did was illegal. She called the “office” and they told her to charge us $23.40. I gave her $23 and told her she was lucky to get that. I was Pissed!

On the way back to the airport I called BellTrans and they were to pick us up at 4:30 am to get us to the airport for the 6 am flight. They wanted us in the lobby at 4:20 am. We were there–they were not. And they never did show up!! At 4:55 am we took a cab back to the airport.

The male driver asked us where we were going. We told him the airport for a 6 am flight. He explained the highway would be quickest but cost about $3 more than the surface streets. We told him okay. I was just glad that he was playing by the rules. With safe driving, going as fast as safety would allow, that guy got us to the airport in 12 minutes flat. The fee was $23, I gave him $27 and everyone was happy.

They were loading the plane when we got to the gate and I thought, great! So, we get on the plane and in our seats and they close the door at 5:20am and I think we are ahead of schedule. We push back from the gate and the pilot comes on the speaker….NEVER A GOOD SIGN. She tells us a tire is low. I think–no big deal…..then she says that they can not just add air to it. It must be changed. They were able to change it while we were on the aircraft, so we ended up sitting on the plane for an hour before it took off.

After we got into the air, it was an uneventful flight and we got into Lansing at 1pm. Unfortunately, George had a meeting at the Capital at 2pm. So we got our luggage and I dropped him off in his shorts and vacation shirt. Our City Manager brought him home. I got home about 3:15…really only 6 hours late, so not too bad. I have learned to go with the flow, because there is not a thing that you can do about it.

I really did not even mind the delay…It was spending the $50 on cab fare that bummed me out! Next time I will call the airline before we turn our rental in!!

Posted by wbk1711 on LVTalk