V-Flyer

After spending time in Orlando and St Petersburg it was time to fly home.
This was our first visit to Florida and St Pete's Beach is probably the best beach i have visited, we stayed at the Tradewinds Hotel which i can highly recommend to anyone
http://www.tradewindsresort.com/

The night before i did online checkin Seq 29.30 and bagged seats 19 A and C and 20 A.
Drove up from St Petersburg dropped the car off with no problems to Alamo, proceeded to Premium Economy checkin and dropped bags off. Queue through Security was quite heavy 20 mins or so then into the Duty free and departures.
Boarded Champagne Belle for the flight home, i've read mixed reviews on the seats in Premium on the 330 personally thought it was fine, plenty of room for me. Cabin Crew announced all 322 customers were now on board and we taxied to take off.
The Cabin Crew on this flight were second to none they never stopped coming around with Water and Orange Juice the whole flight and were very attentive.
Food unlike Economy was very good had the Chicken for my main course which was nice as was the morning English Breakfast.
We landed 30 mins early at Gatwick, the Immigration hall was empty so we sailed through there, Baggage reclaim was very quick then it was into our taxi for a trip around the M25 and home.
All in all very impressed with Premium Economy.
Watched 3 films on the IFE we landed

]glad yopu had a good trip. as nice as St Petes beach is Siesta Key and -in my opinion - Naples both top it. though all get very busy.

for a nice beach but very queiet - next time consider giving Boca Grande a look.

Thanks Flabound for the recommendations.
As i said this was our first family trip to Florida (we already want to go back next year) they must be good will give some research to Boca Grande and go from there.

Thanks for TR, am doing this route in three weeks time so very interesting for me.

Dave

Thanks for the TR

Good to hear the return crew were top notch, something that can be lacking on occasion

A special thanks for making me even more keen to get to St Petes Beach tomorrow (God willing)

buns

Thanks for the TR; a good crew make such a difference but glad you enjoyed PE in the A330. The IFE I think is excellent.

DaveM wrote:Thanks Flabound for the recommendations.
As i said this was our first family trip to Florida (we already want to go back next year) they must be good will give some research to Boca Grande and go from there.

dave

there are indeed some good 'hidden' places around here. feel free to ask when you start planning next years trip

Thanks for the TR, it good to read you had such a good flight with great CC.