Ana Business Class Review San Francisco to Tokyo

Introduction
Introduction Role Ii
Planning & Booking
Sheraton JFK Aerodrome
Lufthansa Business organization Class Lounge JFK
Turkish Airlines Concern Grade 777-300ER New York (JFK) to Istanbul
Turkish Airlines Istanbul Arrivals Lounge
St. Regis Istanbul
Turkish Airlines CIP Lounge Istanbul
Turkish Airlines Business organisation Grade A330-300 Istanbul to Male person
Transfer from Male to Conrad Maldives
Conrad Maldives Office I
Conrad Maldives Part Two
Transfer from Conrad Republic of the maldives to Male
Singapore Airlines Business organization Course 777-200ER Male to Singapore
Crowne Plaza Changi Airport Singapore
Singapore Airlines Business organization Class 777-300ER Singapore to Tokyo (HND)
Andaz Tokyo
ANA Suite Lounge Tokyo (NRT)
ANA Get-go Class 777-300ER Tokyo (NRT) to San Francisco

ANA All Nippon Airways NH 8
Tokyo (NRT) to San Francisco (SFO)
August 27, 2016
Aircraft:  777-300ER
Seats:  2nd/2G

We were among the first in line at gate 52 and bounded down the jetway for our first flight on ANA.  We were warmly welcomed aboard past the crew and shown to our seats (2D/2G).  There would be ii flight attendants serving the motel that went out with 4/8 seats occupied.  The other 2 occupants were concern travelers and went to sleep after takeoff.  That left the two flight attendants to requite us their full attention.

ANA First Class cabin

I knew right abroad this was going to be a great flight.  The crew was warm and engaging.  They asked most our trip and where nosotros lived.  They were both familiar with Denver.  We told them this was our first flight on ANA and they promised it to get in memorable.

Krug time

We kicked things off on the ground with several rounds of Krug and explored the seat.  Every bit has been widely noted in other reviews, ANA's offset course seat (square) feels a scrap like a cubicle.

ANA 777-300ER First Class Seat 2K

You have to lean forward to talk to your flying companion in the heart seats.  In the window seats, there is really only one window and you besides have to lean frontwards to look at the window.  The color scheme is banal (I like the minimalism of it) with a blueish seat and lite woods paneling around.

ANA 777-300ER Get-go Class seat 2D

The highlight had to be the storage.

Storage

More storage

It'southward astonishing how ofttimes these seats are designed without proper storage for headphones, spectacles, chapstick, etc...

At that place were standard power and USB outlets.

Power outlets

The goggle box was adept size and as you would wait, excellent quality.

Welcome to 2G

I should note that nosotros tested the wifi (15 minutes free) and speeds were excellent.

$19.95 for nine hours of wifi - bang-up

There was plenty of room under the ottoman for my backpack.

Enough of storage

Slippers, pajamas, a separate cardigan, and assiduities kits were distributed.

Samsonite amenity kit

ANA used to provide Rimowa amenity kits but they've now switched to Samsonite.  They are cool but not as absurd as the Rimowa kits.

Nosotros pushed back on-time and joined the  lengthy queue during Narita's rush hour.  Once we made our way to the runway, we apace blasted off for San Francisco thanks to the massive GE90's.  There's null quite like the raw power of the 777 with these engines.

Once upward in the air, more than Krug.

Krug for two

We were both impressed by the card.  Here's the all-encompassing wine and beverage list.

And the dinner menu.

I wanted to run into ANA at their best so went with the Japanese pick.  I wasn't disappointed.

At that place was an amuse-bouche.

An appetizer.

A articulate soup.

Several other courses in between...

And an amazing eel principal grade.

Dessert to finish forth with a shot of JWB and petit fours.

This is one of the best Japanese meals I've had anywhere.  That includes wine,  paired sake, and service.  It was really fantastic.

Afterwards dinner, both beds were turned down and we drifted off to sleep for about 5+ hours.  The bed was super comfortable.  There was a mattress pad, soft duvet, and multiple pillows.  I didn't feel claustrophobic in bed at all and the cabin temperature was actually a scrap on the common cold side - unusual for Asian airlines.

At ~nine hours, this is a relatively short flight.  Dinner took nearly three hours so if yous're looking to maximize sleep, you may exist better off going to bed first then eating breakfast prior to arrival.  We slept substantially up until it was time to change and prepare for departure.

We landed at SFO a scrap early on and I turned on my phone to find out that our flight to Denver had been cancelled.  E'er a huge buzzkill coming off an excellent international first class flight.  We figured things out once in the last and were actually able to get on an earlier flight.  So all good.

Concluding thoughts:
Nosotros both loved flying on ANA.  So much of the international first class experience is about the crew and this one was first-class.  While the seat isn't the best, I institute it to be more than than adequate.  The civilities (Sony headphones, pajamas, slippers, cardigan, and amenity kit) are topnotch.  The serve Krug.  The food was fantastic.  In terms of Asian carriers, I would rank ANA on par with China Pacific and a notch beneath Singapore Airlines and Asiana.  We both are excited about returning to Nihon next year and hope to give ANA another shot!

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Source: http://www.alltherightpoints.com/2016/12/review-ana-first-class-tokyo-to-san-francisco.html

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