Traveling to NE INDIA on Qatar Airways Economy Class - The BEST Economy Class in the WORLD!

I love some Indian food. The meat, outstanding. Best thing to do is do this and go in here get some of that. This is like the best thing in the world. Yo what's up guys David Hoffman here from David's Been Here. Today I'm super excited because I'm going back to India. Third time's a charm. I'm so freaking thrilled. This time I'm actually going to two states. I'm going to Assam and Meghalaya. These are located in northeastern India between Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. And up in this pocket of India there's actually seven states so the seven sisters plus the Sikkim to the left which is straddled between Nepal and Bhutan and China. But yeah I'm going to this area because I really want to explore a different part of India. I've gotten so many comments about this area and just it looks so amazing. Food, culture and there's a lot of national parks so there's a lot of animals, wildlife. So I mean it's a good 14 days on the ground. What I love about it is that I'm exploring two different states. Really Assam but Meghalaya I mean it was worth it just to add those days and go there. And I'm super excited to fly Qatar Airways again. This is my sixth time flying them. I've flown them in business class twice and then I've flown them four times in economy. Economy is amazing. It's part of the best economy class in the world. Now let's go to the flight. Hey how are you doing? Thank you so much. All right so we just took off. We have actually only a 12-hour flight on this Qatar Airways flight from Miami to Doha and we're flying on a A350-90 so it's a 3-3-3 configuration. I'm here on the aisle. This is actually 40D so I'm on the back of the plane and I love this airline. As you can see amazing TV entertainment is unlimited. I mean easily like 20 different movies I haven't seen to choose from right here. You have also TV shows, games and I can't wait for the food because I'm super hungry. We usually get food around like you know 30 to 90 minutes in so it really depends. If there's turbulence they'll postpone it a little bit. If not they'll bring out right away and I'm here with my friends from Miami from India. I see you guys watch my videos right? Yeah we do and it's amazing. It's an amazing video. They just gave me a menu. So open this side it tells you the main meals. So we have chicken, chicken pomodoro, we got some paneer, tamar masala. So we have some Indian food right? Amazing. I went with the paneer so that is cottage cheese in India. It's a vegetarian dish with some dal, some rice. I also got some cognac. Very strong. Wow this paneer is ridiculous. So delicious and the dal with the rice. They also gave us some bread, KitKat, some cheese, water, a brownie. Okay so we've been on the flight for four hours. I'm watching a movie called Night School with Kevin Hart. This guy's freaking hilarious. Eight hours to go. Look at this. I'm going to bed. Alright guys I'll see you in Qatar. Just woke up. Slept like eight hours straight. Oh my god. I already slept well. The great thing about economy here is that you get to stretch out and have a lot of space here. I mean it's like easily my almost my entire arm between me and my screen which is amazing. It's like brunch, breakfast brunch. Drink lots of water, stay hydrated. I think it's just mushrooms. I could be in like. Slept well? Slept like crazy. Yeah slept like eight hours or it was amazing. Alright so here's our screen. Flight map right. So right now we are flying over Turkey. That is the city of Batman. So we only have two hours to go. I'm gonna have some breakfast, drink some water, have some coffee and get ready for my connection. What a great flight. It wasn't bumpy at all. So in case you guys didn't know Miami only has one flight to Asia and that is to Qatar. The flight is usually 14 hours from Miami to Qatar. Today it's actually 12. They told me there's a lot of winds so they actually cut two hours which is amazing. Then on the way back it's usually 16 hours, 16 and 20 minutes. So it's a really really long flight but it's the only way to get from Miami to Asia at the moment. And now this is the reason why I flew Qatar because it connects to India really quickly. It could have done what I did last time which is gone through Germany but there was no way to get to Calcutta and then from there to Guwahati. So Qatar Airways gives this little package and inside there's some socks, there's a eye mask but they also give you toothpaste and a toothbrush which is great because you know before getting off the flight you should definitely come here and brush your teeth really quick. Really spacious, a lot of space in here. Thank you, thank you. Okay so we landed here in Qatar. It was a super smooth flight. We had a little bit of bumps when I was sleeping but everything's good. What I recommend is you definitely gotta walk around during these like long flights because your legs like cramp up after a while. So definitely stretch. I gotta say though this business class looks amazing. Damn this is sick. A350, Qatar, awesome. I've been to Qatar airport like six times like I said before and this is probably the best airport in the world. I mean you can see it's gorgeous, super high ceilings, all like silver, beautiful buildings. I mean just amazing. It's a big airport but luckily they make it very efficient to get from one terminal to the next. And now what we're doing is I have to go through transfers. I have to go to my plane. I leave in three hours so I have time and I might be able to go to a lounge because I'm ruby with Oneworld. I'm gold with American but ruby with Oneworld so hopefully we can get some lounge access and I can recharge my battery and relax. So my flight to Qatar leaves at 6 55 and the gate is C7. We're boarding like at 6 so I still got some like two hours to go, two and a half hours. So I'm gonna look to see what lounge I'm allowed access into. There's two lounges here. There's the Al Sawa lounge and the Al Motajan lounge. Unfortunately ruby doesn't give me access to any lounges. That sucks. I mean American Airlines gold but no access to lounges here in Qatar. But this Qatar airport is amazing. There's multiple different like gate terminals. There's ABCDE. I'm in C so I have to walk this way. As you can see they have Harrods here. They have a gold shop. They have chocolate shops. They have a huge teddy bear that's been sitting there for a few years and they even have cars for sale. There's a Lamborghini there and a Mercedes. The Lamborghini is ridiculous and yeah I mean this is like a rich man's airport. That's what I feel about it. I mean it's not like all gold but basically all like platinum and silver. So amazing. Look F1 right here. Look at this. So cool. When you travel it's really hard to get internet. Sometimes airports charge you for internet but here in Qatar they don't charge you for wi-fi. You can just get on your phone. Go on to the wi-fi network and then put your phone number in. They give you an access code and if you can't do that just come here to the IMAX and use the internet. You know check your email. Do whatever you want. Amazing. Man there's so many things. On the way to my gate I just keep stopping. So we started boarding and what happens here in Qatar is when you board you actually go through a little security area. Then they sit you down in your zone. So there's three zones and I'm sitting in zone two. It's been a long three hours but I'm super excited because we're about to board a flight and I want to mention to you guys that Guwahati is not the capital of Assam. I was incorrect on that. It's actually Disport but Guwahati is like the central business hub where like everything's done there. All the commerce is done there. Let's board a flight. Let's go. Hey how are you doing? Good evening. How are you doing? Good. Very good. Thank you. Let's say we're finally boarding. We're finally boarding. Okay so I'm sitting here in 26k which is an emergency aisle seat and the reason I chose this seat is because I have lots of leg room as you can see. Just stretched myself out. I can walk straight to the bathroom whenever I want and yeah I mean the window sort of sucks that it's behind me but I'm gonna sleep most of this flight. I'm gonna have like dinner and then pass out. I need to sleep because the second I get there I still have another flight and when I get there I have to like hit the ground running. This flight is a Boeing 787-8. So it's a 3-3-3 configuration and here in the emergency aisle we have a tv that comes out like that. Wow right there. Big tv. Qatar Airways has so much entertainment. It's like it's unbelievable. I really love... Well can I do anything? Okay. Choose a language. English. Yeah it looks like all the movies are the same as the last flight and I've seen basically everything I want to see. Maybe I'll watch this. Johnny English. The one thing you get on every flight doesn't matter the class you're in on Qatar Airways is a wet towel to clean your hands. This is crucial. I love this. They give you a menu even in economy class. I know I showed you this in the earlier flight but I want to talk to you more about it because this is something no other airline really does except like Middle Eastern Airlines. They give you a menu and today it's basically all Indian food so I'm gonna go with some chicken curry, basmati rice or they have vegetable tikki and paneer makhani. So tonight I decided to go with some chicken curry. So we made it here to Kolkata. It was a super smooth five-hour flight with Qatar Airways. I mean what an amazing flight. It wasn't bumpy at all. I slept, I watched the movie, I edited. I mean I really got a lot of work done and I just try to like you know recharge my batteries. I left my house over 24 hours ago you know getting to the airport then a 12 and a half hour flight, three hour connection, five hour flight and now I'm here. I went through immigration, came downstairs and getting my bags now and then from here I have to go back upstairs to check in with Indigo. I have like a two and a half hour connection from right now and then from here it's a one hour flight to Guwahati. So I still have a long way to go. I mean I still have like almost four hours till I get there and then after that I get my bags and then go straight to the Airbnb, leave everything and then go on a food tour. So I mean it's a long way you know over 24 hours to get here but it's definitely gonna be worth it. I'm super excited. Let me get my bags and go upstairs. I need to get some food. I'm starving. Before checking in and going through security, I decided to stop here and get a chai. It's always chai time in India, three in the morning, two in the morning, two pm, eight at night, it doesn't matter. People love drinking chai. I love it as well. It's so good. Oh piping hot, piping hot. My god, this guy killed me with this. He put some ginger in here. Oh it's very nice, very smooth, a little frothy, a little milky. Oh it's so freaking good. This is the one thing I love about India. Chai, chai, chai, chai. And I love how they give it to you in these mud cups. It's really cool but the mud cups are boiling like it's way too hot. Gotta leave it here for a sec. So I thought I was gonna bypass them checking to see if I had a ticket but they do check. So even if you come in and you have to reconnect, they'll check if you have a ticket. So you always have to have your ticket printed or have it on your phone downloaded. Unfortunately, I didn't have it so I had to go in my email, find it. I thank god I found it and then they let me in and obviously it's your passport. So ticket and passport before entering any airport in India, always remember that. So you have to go wherever your gate is, you know B, and then right there there's a you know a screening. So you put the bag in, they just see if everything's fine, there's nothing in there, then they put a tag on it, then you go and you check in. Sorry, I'm extremely exhausted right now. Made it through security, now we just gotta wait for the flight. We're actually boarding in 35 minutes right here at 23A. They moved up the flight from 545 to 520. That's something that happens here very often in India. They'll change flight times, they'll move them up, push them back. Sometimes people will cancel flights. I mean that's like that's a little rare but I remember there was two different instances where I saw like three or four canceled flights in the same day and I was like that's crazy. It's amazing that it's four in the morning and this airport is bustling. I mean everything is open, all the shops are open, all the food joints are open. There's a lot of snacks here but here at the very end of the food boulevard, this guy was telling me that there is a place that serves pani puri right now. So this guy just ruined my day. They don't serve pani puri until 8 in the morning, but I can get some idli right now or maybe a dosa. So I couldn't find pani puri, but it's fine because really for breakfast you should eat southern Indian food. Right here I have two of my favorite things ever, idli and vada. So idli, it's like a dosa but like a spongy form of it. So it's dough that has been steamed into this like round shape. This is a vada, which is like a super crispy savory donut. Here we have some sambar, we have coconut chutney and here you have mint chutney. So the best thing to do is just go like this. I'm back in India. Then go with the Oh wow. I love southern Indian food. The mint, outstanding. A little spicy too. Best thing to do is do this and then go in here get some of that. Just round this in the sambar. Like that. Oh it's so good. If you like donuts, you'll like this. These are actually like bite size, a little smaller. But I like having it with the spicy mint chutney. So again, mix it. This is like the best thing in the world. I really, really love southern Indian food. Oh wow, what an amazing breakfast. Southern Indian breakfast at four in the morning at Kolkata airport is a must. Oh my god, that was just incredible. I was so hungry. For me, my entire clock is off because it's really like dinner time in Miami. So I mean, it's okay though. I was starving. Now I'm full and yeah, my flight is boarding right now in the next six minutes. So I'm walking over to 23 a.m at 22. I'll be there in a second. Indigo, here we go. Hello, how are you doing? Good morning. Thank you. All right, so we just entered the plane and I'm sitting here in 8 a.m at the window. Oh, I need some water. Last flight, last flight and we're there. Okay, so we finally made it here to Assam. Oh my god, it's been a whirlwind. Over 30 hours to get here. 30 hours. So we're finally here. It's 6.20 in the morning. I have to get my bags, get an Uber, go straight to my Airbnb and take a shower. I need a shower right now. But yeah, I mean, it's a little chilly actually up here. As you saw, it was a little foggy as well. You can see the Himalayas from the airplane. Pretty amazing. You see all the mountains from here too. Once I got my bags, what I did is I went straight to an ATM. There's an ATM inside the airport. The only problem was the ATM only can give me $10,000 which was a little messed up because I wanted more than that. So $10,000 is like $140. And yeah, I just called my Uber. He's gonna be here any second. He's in Suzuko. Suzuki, I mean. Where is he? Suzuki. Somewhere here. Everybody's asking me, you know, to jump in a taxi but choose Uber. Uber is the most economical. I think it's like $250. Okay, $250 to go to where I'm going. Amazing. Uber. Ready to go. Yeah, it feels so different from the rest of India, this place. Feels more relaxed. Okay, here we go. It's funny. Everybody's looking at me. Every single person's looking at me. So my first impressions here in Guwahati is that it's calmer than the rest of India for sure. I'm sure there's way less people here. It's probably like a million or two million, right? It's very small. Small. It's Sunday morning, 6 30 in the morning. So it's just very chill. It's dry. It's a little cold. You can see there's a lot of like smoke right now. A lot of people out. I don't know what they're doing because there's no school today. Oh, for the exam. Wow, look at that. So many people. Online exam. And we have to drive about 32 minutes to get to my Airbnb and it's in the Old Bazaar, right? Old Bazaar. Isn't it called the Old Bazaar? What's it called? Degree Pugri. Degree Pugri. And that's Old Town. That's where a lot of the good food joints are. And yeah, this is just a different type of India. Northeast India is completely different from the rest of India. It's like a separate world. Again, there's seven different states here. Seven sisters. And there's also Sikkim, which is straddled between China, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. So up there. But this is a whole different world. I'm so excited. I've been trying 30 hours and I'm like ready to go. Long journey. So we were pretty excited to explore. This is the river that basically makes Assam, Assam because it runs completely through. It comes from China, comes completely through it and then it empties out into Bangladesh. It's an amazing river. As you can see, it's very low right now because we're in the dry season. So after a 30 minute drive, we're here. My Airbnb. Wow. What's up guys? Amazing. Man, maybe I should get some grapes. These guys. Well guys, we had such an adventure today. 30 hours in transit to get here to Guwahati. Wow. That was a long journey. Hope you enjoyed it. We did three flights. Flying Qatar Airways economy class is the best. It really is the best. If you have to fly economy class, Qatar Airways is the way to do it. And if you're going from Miami to India or Asia, it's probably best to go with Qatar because you go direct to Qatar and then connect from there. It's a lot easier than connecting in Dallas or New York or Chicago or LA. But yeah, guys, I hope you love this video. If you did, please give me a thumbs up, leave me a comment below and subscribe to my channel for more awesome travel content. I'll see you on the next travel adventure in Assam, India. I'm so excited. Peace.