Is it worth upgrading?

Hi there, I am taking my wife, Mum and 22 month old Daughter to NY in December.

We currently have PE booked both ways and I also purchased the guest list for the way out.
Looking at my booking, for the return, we are on a 330-300, and have been offered to upgrade to upper for £300 per person.

I have flown back on upper before and found it good to get some sleep in with the time difference (We are all very short so seat space isn't a factor).

My question is around whether this is worth the upgrade cost, it sounds reasonable enough, but my other question is around our little girl, from seat maps I cannot work out how infant space works (I take no cot / equivalent which we would of had in PE in the front row I think) and secondly will we just be annoying other pax if she is awake / noisy and doesn't adjust well to trying to sleep etc, or does this happen a lot and I shouldn't worry about it.

Appreciate any thoughts on this?

Hi there, I am taking my wife, Mum and 22 month old Daughter to NY in December.

We currently have PE booked both ways and I also purchased the guest list for the way out.
Looking at my booking, for the return, we are on a 330-300, and have been offered to upgrade to upper for £300 per person.

I have flown back on upper before and found it good to get some sleep in with the time difference (We are all very short so seat space isn't a factor).

My question is around whether this is worth the upgrade cost, it sounds reasonable enough, but my other question is around our little girl, from seat maps I cannot work out how infant space works (I take no cot / equivalent which we would of had in PE in the front row I think) and secondly will we just be annoying other pax if she is awake / noisy and doesn't adjust well to trying to sleep etc, or does this happen a lot and I shouldn't worry about it.

Appreciate any thoughts on this?

To fall back on the standard V-Flyer response, only you can tell whether it's value for money. Many on here are happy with PE on what is quite a short flight. You would, however, get CH and Revivals access in addition to UC.

I don't know what the situation will be on the seat for your little one, but as to behaviour (1) if she does play up most passengers will be sympathetic if you're actively trying to calm her and (2) most night flights we have taken where there are babies / infants in the UC cabin they have been as good as gold.

+1.

My own personal preference (if it came to a straight choice) would be UC rather than the Guest List.

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oldboy

For the extra comfort and facilities I think £300pp is well worth it. On one of our trips back from the US we had two children about 1 and the other about 3 they had their own UC suite and although grizzly to start with slept all the way as they could stretch out and wriggle and turn , with mum in the next seat. They had to wake them up on landing, we all trooped past and they were absolutely angelic.

Ok - my 2 cents... £300 seems a good price
for £900 you get UC back & access to the JFK lounge.
You also get a lot of extra luggage allowance!
(why worry about annoying UC passengers, but you are not about PE?)

What could you do with that extra £900 instead?
Upgrade your hotel rooms?
fast track some sightseeing queues?
go on a shopping spree? (but you may need the extra luggage room afteral!)

Yes.

I'd upgrade for that price no question. Not sure how it would work with your infant. I have seen pax with infants a little younger and obviously the baby didn't have its own seat and mum was nursing it throughout the flight.

Guest list gets you the chauffeur driven car, upgrading to UC and dropping guest list means you will now need to source your own transport. Remember to factor that cost in to the calculation.

I've seen a Mum and infant sleeping together very happily in an UC suite converted into a bed in the nose of a 747. I'm a little less convinced that the same thing would work on the narrower suites in a A330. Sky cot dimensions are listed here: http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/gb/en/tr ... abies.html but note you can't have one in the Upper Class cabin on B747-400 aircraft operating to or from Gatwick or Manchester (I have no idea why not).

Guest list gets you the chauffeur driven car, upgrading to UC and dropping guest list means you will now need to source your own transport. Remember to factor that cost in to the calculation.

Could be mistaken but my reading of the original post is that the £300 offer is one way, for the return leg only, so he won't be dropping the Guest List.

Hi everyone and thanks for the advice, the option was £630 each to upgrade both ways or £300 one way, so I took the later and booked it, however it never gave me the option to select which leg and defaulted to the outbound!

Had a few panics and a long call with Customer service who basically could not make the switch from out to in as that wasn't available on their system, so I have reverted back to the original PE both ways and am awaiting it to pop up again on our itinerary.

Apparently the offers which come up on the itinerary are customer specific and automatic and not available for the agents to do, so if it comes again I will take it, and as mentioned above will keep the guest list as need that for the car out and back from LHR and the Clubhouse access outbound.

Thanks again

Well, if its outbound, then it's a bargain! (maybe it was because you booked the Guest list?)
You get the better lounge & most of that extra £300 would have gone on taxes anyway.