Off to the South of France
Mrs. SFO and I are off today to the south of France and a small barge cruise from Béziers to Carcassonne. Plus a day in Paris tomorrow and dinner at one of our Paris faves, Le 114 Faubourg at the Hotel Bristol. But best of all, we are back on our favorite airline, Lufthansa. Since LH has pulled First Class from DEN, we are forced to connect, today via Chicago on United. Miserable rainy weather continues to plague Denver and we are happy to "get out of Dodge".
• United First Class Denver-Chicago
• United Global First Lounge at ORD
• Lufthansa First Class Chicago-Frankfurt
• Lufthansa First Class Terminal
• Lufthansa Businss Class Frankfurt-Paris
• Hotel Esprit St-Germain
• Paris and dinner at Le 114 Faubourg
• TGV First Class Paris Gare Lyon to Béziers
• Belmond Alouette Barge
• South of France
• Lufthansa Business Class Toulouse-Munich
• Lufthansa First Class Munich-Chicago
• American Admirals Club ORD
• United First Class Chicago-Denver
PreCheck was amazing this morning with only real PreCheck qualified pax today. Despite the gloomy Denver weather, everything was on time at DIA, or at least with our flight.
Denver-Chicago
United 1698
737-800
8:55A-12:15P
June 12, 2015
Seats 3DF
Every now and then, you encounter a real jack*** and today was that day. Guy cuts the Group 1 line right in front of us. Okeedokee.
I'm thinking that Mr. DYKWIA just got his free upgrade and he's now a legend in his own mind. Yeah, that's you in the white jacket fatso.
LOL, Indeed, PLA, I. was upgraded and is sitting in 2A. One of the great things about UA.com and the UA app is that you can see which upgraders are sitting where.
Another United flight, another excellent crew especially First Class FA David. OK, these seats are not the most comfortable but it was only two hours. Wifi worked great today as did personal entertainment system letting you watch movies on your tablets, smartphones etc…
Choice of oatmeal or scrambled eggs. The scrambled eggs look like a big improvement from previous United breakfasts. Oatmeal tray was pretty substantial with a nice fruit plate, yogurt and biscuit.
Although there was no milk for the oatmeal until I asked for it. Not sure what anyone else used or perhaps they just ate their oatmeal without milk. 
On time arrival in ORD meant we had 3 hours to kill before our Lufthansa flight.
First stop is the United Global First Lounge. Better than the United Club but definitely not even close to the size and comfort of the SFO lounge.
With a surprisingly good selection of alcohol offerings.
And as during our last visit, impressive Far Niente as the house chard.
But pretty pathetic food options, both serve yourself and "made to order".
I had a shrimp cocktail.
And we ordered the prime beef and quiche options both of which were clearly prepared by graduates of the Doug Parker Culinary Academy.
A couple of bites and we headed out to explore Terminal 1 in search of real food.
America's Dog looks like a possibility if all else fails.
And this year's winner of the Biggest Lie contest. Yeah, that looks United Economy Plus. LOL.
Nothing but garbage in the C concourse, so we headed over to B.
And Rick Bayless' Frontera.
OK, now that was good food.
And then back to C and the Global First Lounge.
Where Mrs. SFO eyed dessert.
