day 37

I went to the front desk about 9 to see about the bag. It wasn't there, so I called the toll free number they gave me. Well I talked to a person in India who had no idea about anything. He said it would be at lease 4 hours befor we could get it, or we could go to the international terminal and get it from customs.
We get to the ariport and no one is around at luggage claims and no one can be found. Again I call india and get another person who knows nothing. Then a lady at the information centre finds someone over at domestic that has her bag.
So we walked over to domestic and finally get the bag back (2 hours later). the lady we finally found, had talked to the man in India and told him to send us to her. Not all over the $%&* place in the airport.
by now it't noon and we have to get a bus downtown, To catch another bus to Paihia in the north. We booked a trip up the the cape. We finally got to our hostel in Paihia and settled in for the night

this is the customs house in Auckland