- It's just so uncomfortable.
There isn't enough room, really.
- Kenya believe it? We're off to Africa today.
It's a really cold day here in London.
So come with me
and we'll head to somewhere a little bit warmer.
Thank you.
- Your coronavirus test, please?
- Yes. Perfect.
Thank you.
- Yeah.
- Thank you very much. Have a good day. Thanks.
- So like many airlines at the moment,
Kenya Airways are normally based out of terminal four.
But unfortunately, terminal four is shut still up here
at Heathrow, as well as terminal three as well.
So Kenya are flying from here at terminal two,
which does mean that we've got no lounge today
because there's no lounges here open
that Kenya Airways passengers can use.
Now there's an airline you don't get to see
at Heathrow very often.
Rwandair, they usually base out of Gatwick.
That when I flew with them, I flew from Brussels
but the flight was coming in from Gatwick on that day.
So interesting that they're flying out of Heathrow now
to Brussels then onward to Kigali in Rwanda.
Really nice to see here.
I made my mistake last time I was traveling somewhere
pretty tropical and didn't get any anti-mosquito treatment
or suntan cream or anything,
like most sensible people would do.
Let's have a look what we got.
That'll do.
So there's my ride to Kenya.
Kenya Airways 787-8 Dreamliner.
Do like a nice Dreamliner.
It's an eight and a half hour flight tonight down to
Nairobi, Kenya.
- Hello there. How are you?
- Morning! Good afternoon.
Evening, whatever it is.
Thank you.
- Perfect, thank you.
- Thank you.
- Perfect.
- Cheers! Thank you, have a good one.
- Hello. - Hello, hi.
- Hello, welcome sir.
- Thank you.
- So then onboard, the Kenya Airways 787 Dreamliner,
and it's not too bad. It's in a 2-2-2 config.
We've got a couple of cabins here for their
business class product.
They've got a row of, a cabin with four rows in the front,
and then there's a little cabin with two rows here
slightly further back.
This cabin has got really nice view of the engine though.
By day, but this is an entirely night flight.
And so we're not going to get to see much of that,
but it is not too bad at all.
.
Doors are closed.
Jetbridge is away.
We're off to Kenya.
Tonight's route
then took us out of London and across Europe,
towards Greece. From there we crossed into Egypt,
flying over Sudan and Ethiopia before descending over Kenya
into Nairobi.
Flight time tonight was eight hours and eight minutes.
Cruising at 41,000 feet.
So then airborne outside of London, Heathrow
on the Kenya Airways Dreamliner, and
quite nice so far.
I've been handed an amenity kit,
pair of headphones.
The seats actually,
I think it's exactly the same seat that I flew on,
on the Ethiopian Dreamliner last year, I think.
When I went over to Brazil and flew back with Ethiopia,
it's exactly the same seat I believe as the Ethiopian one.
So it's fairly nice, fairly comfortable.
It isn't a two to two, but fortunately, as you can see,
I'm kind of here on my own tonight.
There's nobody at the side of me.
So I've got two to myself.
There's a nice little privacy divider down here as well.
That kind of pops up and down, which is quite nice.
The bed, controls for the seat down here,
it does go into a full flat bed.
So we'll try that out in a little while as well.
Table pops out, sort of here.
Pop out for dinner in a bit.
And there's a TV down here.
The remote control for the TV,
sort of down here, there is power as well,
USB and a three pin plug just under here.
Which is quite nice and pretty decent leg room as well.
Obviously the bed goes full flat,
so we'll try that out in a little while as well.
Okay. So that other button just down here is for the TV.
That's what pops the TV out. So, so let's have a look.
Inicio. Let's have some English action here.
Movies, TV shows.
If I can get it to work, there we go.
A few different TV options there and movies and stuff.
It's all right.
To be honest,
not expecting an Emirates style ICE system with like,
like an onboard Netflix, but that's okay.
The screen is a bit sort of, it doesn't really respond,
which is a bit of a pain. My flights, let's see.
Do we have an onboard camera? Let's have a look.
No.
Not by the looks of it. Track my flight though.
We can do that.
I was thinking about it.
There we go. Yeah.
It's just a standard flight map. So let's do a cycle.
There we go.
So they're not handing out of menus at the moment
because of COVID, which is fair enough, really,
but they do have a full meal service still on board.
And they've just given me the options,
which are a chicken and rice,
beef and potatoes, or a vegetable curry.
And I've gone for the chicken with rice.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
Chicken and rice.
With a bit of cup on the side.
And another bit of rice, I mean.
As business class means go,
it's not necessarily the greatest.
Plastic cutlery in business class.
I don't want to be a snob, because I'm not really a snob
you know that, but,
Well that's pretty good though.
Interesting socks.
Like a lion print.
That is cool. I like that very much.
It's not massively long.
- That's what she said!
If I show you.
Sort of, my feet are touching that end.
My head is very close. I can't even lay kind of flat.
Can't lay flat.
Got to kind of bring my leg like that.
So, there's not that much room.
Um...
Which is brilliant.
The duvet, the liner that they give you here,
this blanket thing,
is really nice. It's soft and fluffy one one side.
I love it when they do that. Got a nice pillow as well.
It's just, not the most comfortable.
Not the most leg room. I mean, I am
remember I am six foot, four tall.
Which is obviously,
quite an issue sometimes.
This is one of those that it's a little bit tight,
but I can probably lay on my side
and bend around the seat,
because there's nobody at the side of me.
So it is not the end of the World.
So, let's try and get a few hours sleep.
See how we go,
and what time we wake up
and how long before we land in Nairobi that I wake up.
Hopefully, not long.
But, let's see. See you in the morning!
Goodnight.
Ooh, I've just woken up.
We're about an hour from landing down in Nairobi.
And breakfast has just arrived.
A simple Continental affair for breakfast, I think.
Pastries, croissant, things like that.
That's not too bad.
A coffee. I think I managed a couple of hours sleep.
But, it's just so uncomfortable this kind of
really short,
bed.
There wasn't enough room really.
I contorted myself into all sorts of
different positions to try and get some sleep, but,
unfortunately it was really uncomfortable.
I did manage to get a couple of hours.
So it looks like I'm going to be catching up on sleep
when I land down into Nairobi.
But let's get some breakfast first.
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- Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi.
- My flight to Nairobi tonight and cost me 1,492 pounds,
working out at a cost of 35 Pence per mile.
- Thank you. Bye.
- Thank you, bye bye.
- To enter Kenya, you need a negative COVID test
within four days of arriving
and they check it along with your locator form
and temperature as you arrive into the country.
- Just checking the form.
- Yeah.
- And it's fine. - Yeah.
- Welcome.
- All right, thank you.
- Okay proceed,
you're welcome.
- All right, thank you.
Kenyans have a solid reputation for elite level athletics.
And my taxi driver seemed to be in training for
the hundred meters this week, headed to the car.
All right mate, hold up.
Thank you.
A 20 minute drive later,
I arrived at my accommodation at the Aero Club
at Nairobi Wilson airport,
where you could say that the room I had was relatively
close to the action.
So here then at my home for the next few nights
at the Aero Club of East Africa.
At Wilson Airport.
She's pretty decent.
You can't get much closer than this, to the action here,
at Wilson.
Taxiway literally right outside my room,
which is pretty decent.
Kenya Airways. Well..
It's a tough one. They weren't the best.
Let me just say that.
The seat wasn't fantastic.
The meal service was kind of a bit meh to be honest.
However, however, I still really liked them.
Which I don't, I can't really explain why.
The cabin crew were just phenomenal.
Absolutely incredible, through the entire flight.
So friendly. So hospitable, just amazing
all around, really.
The service on board was good as well.
The aircraft was nice.
So yeah,
they are not the best African airline that I've flown on.
That's for certain.
But they're far from the worst either.
And I think they probably take for me out of the airlines
I've found in Africa,
they probably take a very close second to Rwandair
who are still my favorite African airline.
If you haven't seen that video, of course,
don't forget to check it out.
But regardless of all of that,
I'm here in Nairobi in Kenya and about to start
my little African adventure.
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In the meantime, I'm off to get some sleep,
but thanks so much for watching. Take care.
I'll see you on the next one.
Okay. This is actually starting to get quite annoying now.