Thank you thank you thank you thank you Emirates thank you Emirates thank you
thank you thank you
Now I don't know whether it was because we turned up early to check in, as usual
I was early at the airport now three hours before the flight .I don't know
whether it is because of our frequent flyer status but we were given the
opportunity on check-in if we wanted to upgrade from business to first class.
The total cost per person an additional five hundred US dollars.
I know $500 don't get me wrong it's a lot of money but the opportunity on an
almost seven hour flight to upgrade from business to first to be able to review
this for you guys as well to show you what it's like to fly here in first
class on the a380. How can I say no?
Who am I going to write to?
Thank you. Just being given an amenities bag
it's the biggest amenities bag I've ever seen on any aircraft it's like an
amenities tote bag. Mini amenities bag. Emirates slippers. Another bag.
And the remainder of this review will be done in Emirates pyjamas.
So we haven't even taken off yet but there's about a 30-minute delay because there
are a couple of passengers apparently who haven't turned up so they need to
offload their bags. I've never been happier for a 30-minute delay than I am
right now. I hope more passengers don't turn up.
First class on any plane is obviously amazing it's normally a
fantastic service but one of the things that makes this different on the
Emirates a380 compared to some of the other first-class offerings is of course
this. Now we had this you would have seen on
the Qatar QSuite review that I did. There's a door on the Q Suites but it's manual.
This one is fully automated you just push a button and you can close the
doors and you don't need to look at your family for the whole flight.
There's this basket of snacks you get. Chips. I'm not sure what 'Uppy' is. Mints.
All sorts in there but we should be getting a dinner service so probably not
going to touch those just now.
There's a pretty comprehensive menu juices breakfast obviously when we land
towards Melbourne. Main courses. There's Arabic food Western food
and it's all a la carte so you can just order whenever you want.
I don't know how much a bottle of Dom Pérignon 2009 is.
But I feel like we should try it.
I think I'm going to get the traditional Arabic mezze. And then
either the grilled tiger prawns
or the roasted salmon.
This is the Arabic mezze plate starter option and you get like a heap of breads.
Dips. Hummus. Baba ghanoush. Stuff.
Little bottles of things that's a lot and you get lamb as well if you but I
got the vegetarian option so there's no lamb here it's like.
So I tried making my own bed obviously failed but got some very
able assistance. So I only got about three hours sleep before having to wake
up because there's the most exciting thing that I've wanted to do for so long
and never done before and a plane ever in all my lifetime of flying.
Ladies and gentlemen something I never thought I'd hear myself saying on an aircraft...
I'm about to take a shower
Forget instrument ratings that was the best thing I've ever done on a plane.
It's morning now there's about an hour and a half before we land in Melbourne
I'm very very sad about all of that but I totally forgot last night to tell you
the fact that of course when you're flying in business or first you get
access to the business lounges at the airport you're flying from.
Now at Changi Airport one important note is if you're going to be flying in
first class is there's no dedicate first class lounge at Changi Airport. However if you're flying
Emirates which we are now, and you're a Qantas Frequent Flyer and a member of the Qantas Club
which we are as well, then you actually get access to two lounges. So of course we
had to check them both out. So we started with the Emirates lounge.
It was very nice in there but we wanted to also check out the Qantas Club
lounge. So all you have to do is walk down the stairs
about halfway along in the middle of duty-free, back upstairs in the middle of the terminal
and then you can go in the Qantas Club too.
I think I've pressed every button in here now.
Now a lot of you guys who've watch the channel for a while will know I'm a big
Casey Neistat fan. I've followed him for a while and he's probably the main reason
why I got into starting making videos on YouTube in the first place.
And I can't sit here in this seat on this aircraft without referencing the video
that Casey did on the Emirates first-class Suites. The $21,000 airplane
seat. Awesome, it's brilliant. The editing is amazing story telling's brilliant. It's
dead funny. I'm going to link it below just in case you haven't seen it, and I know like
tens of millions of people have. But just in case you haven't definitely check it out.
it's a really really cool video on this whole suite.