20 hours with emirates

We spent the day yesterday flying from Sydney to Rome with emirates. 12.5 hours on an Airbus A380 to Dubai, then another 6 hours on a Boeing 777 to complete the trip.
The experience was about as good as it could have been. The staff were good, everything was on time, food was good, and the inflight entertainment system had an adequate selection of Hall & Oates, spanning their entire career and covering all the greatest hits. Big thumbs up there emirates.
The A380 is without doubt the aircraft you want to be doing trips like this in if you can. It feels much more spacious, especially in terms of seat width. I was on the aisle both times, and the cart brushed past my shoulder on the 777, not so on the A380.
One potential down side for the A380 is that it has stairs in the front galley area. But this is only really a bad thing if you pass out and hit your head on them, as one lady unfortunately did, leading the captain to make an announcement asking if there was a doctor on board, at which point I was extremely disappointed that Leslie Nielson didn’t make an appearance.