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Be me trying to reserve an Uber for when my cruise gets back in: "7am from White Bay Cruise Terminal"
Uber: You got it! 6am booking confirmed. Driver will wait until 6:12am.
3 times just to make sure it wasn't something I was doing. Every time. $48 for 15 minutes estimated drive too.
Might try and sneak my way onto the shuttle bus which goes to central then just make my way from there to the car hire place.
Meanwhile! I still have a train ticket booked which I'm just not going to use. Ship gets into Sydney at 4:30am, so when I booked it I figured I'd have HOURS to kill before the 7:40am train. Turns out disembarkation will start at around 6:45am so if something caused any delay I'd miss that train anyway. If I wasn't carrying my own bag out my disembarkation group time is 8:35am so that would have been doublefucked.
The upside to all of this is that last night I extended my car hire by a day and booked myself a room in Albury for the night so I don't need to do the entire drive in a day. So now it's not a big deal if I don't get going from Sydney as early as humanly possible.
Sounds very sensible to break the journey on the way back esp after being unwell. 2022 xmas I had to leave at 4am to get to Sydney in time for dinner and was barely sane by the end coming after many stressful days prior. Broke my journey on the way back at Albury as well and had a much better time. Detoured via Beechworth on the way back on the second day and had a blast
Drive safe and welcome back to Melbs. :)