We ended up sleeping in a little bit, and sitting around the pool taking it easy before heading to the airport for our early afternoon flight to Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Initially, when we were looking at this ticket on LIAT‘s website, it was around $100 one way plus another $150 or so in taxes and fees. When I came back a week later to buy it, however, it only charged me the $100 with no taxes! So, I was definitely expecting some drama at the airport.
Got to the airport plenty early, and being another prop plane they made us check our rolling bags. No big deal, was nice not to have to roll them through security and around the airport anyways. Through check-in, no issues at all, and was thinking maybe we’d get lucky! However, right before security was the “airport improvement fee” desk. They hit us for around $28 each in fees which was still much better than we were expecting to pay, so all in all a pretty big win!
We stopped for a bit in the Plesman Lounge (courtesy of Priority Pass) which wasn’t good for much more than spotty internet, a diet coke, and some potato chips. Oh well, better than waiting it out at the gate!
There was some real concern about when this flight left. Our booking said 13:00, boarding passes said 12:40, and the gate display said 13:15. Nobody seemed to really know! Regardless, we started boarding just before 12:30 and were off before 1.
