Sun, Fun and nothing to do?!?!?! 21./22.09.08

My goodness, was this a weekend!!!!! Just to show you that I am not hanging around enyjoing life.

Saturday I did some office work to prepare for the weekend. The weekends are the busiest days as we then have all the departures and arrivals. Looking at the schedule I knew that this “weekend” would be crazy.

You have to know that the manager of the local partner here in Sharm doesn’t want the guests to be too long alone in the hotel before we do the welcome meeting. He is afraid that they go and book with someone else. So as we have arrivals on Sunday at 01.40, on Sunday during the day and on Monday at 2.00 I have to do in most of the hotels two welcome meetings.

So I had to get up on Sunday at about midnight because the car came to pick me up at 01.00 to go the airport. The arrival planed for 01.40 was late and it took very long for the guests to come out. My transfer was brining guests to 3 different hotels what made that I came back on Sunday morning at 05.30.
At 08.30 I had to get up again because we had departure transfers. So Sunday I was spending at the airport because we had so many arrivals and departures. I then came back to my room at about 15.00.
At 17.30 I got picked up again because at 18.00 my 1st welcome meeting of the evening would start. I had welcome meetings at 3 different hotels and came back at 22.00 (Sunday).
On Monday at 00.30 I had to get up again because at 01.15 I got picked up to go to the airport for the Air Cairo arrival. The plane landed pretty much in time but there were some issues regarding the visas. My transfer took me to two hotels and I got back at 04.00.
The problem is that very often I can’t fall asleep straight away. This night I also slept very bad and at 09.30 my colleague called me and then I couldn’t sleep anymore. I did some work, preparing e-mails, fine tuning the weekly report and at 13.00 I had my 1st welcome meeting of this day. After that I headed to the 2nd welcome meeting, then to the 3rd, the 4th and having also visiting hours after my 4th welcome meeting I came out of the last hotel at 21.10. As there have been a lot of bookings I had to go to the office and I got out of there at 22.50.

The entire day I was carrying my laptop around with me because in my hotel the internet did not work. And as I knew that I won’t have a lot of time I wanted to just send the e-mails I had prepared in the morning (copy / paste). But at the Inter Plaza there was no time just as at the Millennium, at the Park Inn the Internet did not work and the besides that at the Hotel Renaissance there wouldn’t have been any spare time, the lobby has no free wireless connection.

And tomorrow I am having my 1st visiting hour at 10.00, this goes on until 16.15, then I will be back at about 16.45 to be picked up again at 19.00 to finish my last visiting hour at the Hotel Renaissance at 20.45.

So if there is anybody who thinks that I am not working hard, you are more than welcome to join me on one of my weekends.

And every weekend I wonder which stupid person has invented the night flights??????????????????