Off to Poland

My former personal trainer and friend from San Francisco retired a few years and he and his wife moved back to their native Poland for part of the year. Mrs. SFO and I have never been to Poland and decided to spend a few days with them and escape the Denver summer heat.

-Lufthansa 447 DEN-FRA NEW First Class
-The LH First Class Terminal at FRA
-Lufthansa CityLine1372 FRA-WRO Business Class
-Art Hotel Wroclaw
-Wroclaw
-Auschwitz
-Sheraton Krakow
-Krakow
-Lufthansa 1365 KRA-FRA Business Class
-Lufthansa First Class Terminal at FRA
-Lufthansa 446 FRA-DEN First Class

DEN-FRA is still a pretty easy award route but no longer at T-14. At T-10 I booked two seats into an F7 cabin, fully expecting old First, as DEN, ORD and BOM seem to routinely get the short end of the 744 fleet and old First. But miracles do sometimes happen and an equipment swap yesterday gave us refurbished D-ABVZ. I OLCI'd at home but we stopped at the counter for a doc check and just to make sure that we were good to go.

Pleasant agent didn't mention lounge access although asked "do you know where to go?" and I guess figured that my "yes, thank you" meant I knew.

Even though the United Club in the B concourse has recently been renovated, a marginal domestic lounge in a different concourse and a train ride away from our A-41/43 is not very convenient. So we headed for the A concourse Admirals Club where I have a membership. Mrs. SFO's misguided and spoiled opinion notwithstanding, it is a nice lounge and only a three minute walk from the gate. Some recycled pics from a previous trip...

And a major upgrade in calories as the AC is now featuring yogurt covered pretzels, something the UC recently dropped. We get excited about any new additions to the relatively pathetic domestic lounge food scene.

At T-45, we headed out to nearby Gate A41 and our beautiful 747-400.

Boarding started at T-35, with First and Business pax boarding at Gate A41, Y pax from Gate A43. The Princess knows the route and heads up the stairs to our favorite F cabin leaving her carry-on at the bottom of the stairs for me to schlep up. Yeah, I know my place.

Up next: Another reminder why I continue to rank Lufthansa as the best airline in the world.