EyeShotFirst said:
Come on it is the star wars universe. He could have gotten to any distance at an unbelievable speed. It could have been by pod or as janskeet said some kind of transit system. I have played games that put the carbon freezing chamber within the actual city then an elevator that leads straight down in to the gantry area (the long stem at the bottom of cloud city. It could be anywhere. I honestly would think it better to just leave all this were that goes nonsense out of the film. We dont need to know little detail.

I still hope Adywan addresses the issue. I think it is pretty obvious this is a miskake on Lucas's part, either that or he didn't care.