London for Tottenham-Chelsea

After a pleasant BA flight, reality hits when you are disgorged into the atrocity that is London Heathrow. Still no priority treatment for First or Business Class passengers and you just follow the hoard to the T5 train and then immigration. My dilemma today is that I needed to shower and stow my bags for the day. I opted for the a cheap room at the T4 Premier Inn only because I’ve been there before and knew the drill. Plus the Air France check in counter is in T4 in case I needed to call an audible later in the day. 

My cheap room for the day.

Since it was Sunday morning and no traffic, I went with a £42 UberX ride into the city and The Berkeley, to visit @cedricgrolet and buy a selection of decadent pastries to share with the boys. 

Cedric Grolet at The Berkeley.

Then off the The Cadogan to meet @shariq_dallas...

OMG!

Then to Piccadilly Circus to meet @thedarkknightdds and our tube ride to Tottenham.

And the complimentary shuttle bus to the stadium.

My Instagram video of my trek from Heathrow to Hotspur Stadium.

Tottenham to Paris

With 62,000 fans all leaving at the same time, it was inevitable gridlock around the stadium. We contemplated just walking the 45 minutes to Wood Green but opted to sit on our arses in the comfort of a slow moving shuttle bus. Once at Wood Green, I took the first train as it went all the way to Heathrow T4. I had a late BA flight and would meet @thedarkknightdds the next morning in Paris for our Air France flight home. 

As a BA Gold member, I used BA First check in and security, and the Galleries First Lounge even though I was on a cheap £55 Economy ticket. 

My order was delivered within 5 minutes.

And the Chicken Thali was delicious.

While our flight to London was an hour late, I was upgraded to Club Europe as apparently the flight was oversold in Economy.

Euro "Business Class". LOL.  Economy seating and legroom with an open middle seat.

Impressive meal service on a 40 minute flight.

In Paris, BA uses Terminal 2A and I hadn't realized that 2C and 2D are completely CLOSED for renovation which means that there is no obvious way to walk from 2A/2B to and thru 2C where the Sheraton claims they are located and onward to 2E/2F. It took me 45 minutes to navigate my way including a visit to the 2C/2D parking garage and the bowels of CDG.

My room for 5 hours.  Haha.

My Instagram video of my trip from Hotspur Stadium to Paris.

Air France La Première Paris to San Francisco

At T-30, our La Première Personal Assistant came and escorted downstairs to for our short limo ride to our plane.

And our own private jet bridge to door 1L.

Welcome to Air France La Première, an elegant private single row 4 seat cabin with ceiling to floor curtains to block out the world. So fortunate to be the only two passengers today on the way to San Francisco.   Excellent in-flight service and food combined with the amazing CDG ground experience and Lounge make Air France the best overall First Class experience in the world. Thanks to @thedarkknightdds for the pics as I was unable to retrieve mine after my seat mangled my iPhone.

My iPhone after being eaten and mangled by my seat.   

My Instagram video of our fabulous Air France flight to San Francisco.