This is a Trip Report from the Upper Class cabin
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We got a taxi to the airport and headed through to Upper Class check-in...OMG what a mess, I have marked the check-in as poor but please don't take that as a bad reflection on the desk staff trying to assist.
We were greeted at the taxi by a geezer with a trolley who said he would take our cases, for a moment I thought mmm will you just take them literally lol, he was ok in the end.
Walked down the rather grubby carpet there was just us but there was a family from the PE queue causing havoc carrying small screaming babies and wearing Primark leggins with what appeared to be clearly henpecked and exhausted men in tow. There were 10 in all two of which were travelling PE an older lady and daughter both in leggins and what looked like H Samuel jewelery one carrying a clearly fake Louis Vuitton ( why do people waste money on an obvious fake what are they trying to say pretending to have a 1000 bag when they could spend the 100 they really paid on ebay on another decent one[:?] ) anyway I digress though forgot to mention the equally fake D&G specs. Totally gobby and unfragranced. We were called forward and then the family just butted in with all three staff, they were annoyed because the PE people 2 of them had already checked in and a further 8 people in their party had turned up who were flying Economy and were refusing to join the economy queue. Eventually and quite wrongly in my view they were all checked in at PE and thank God not on my flight.
Because of the confusion we were called forwards before the security check, I kind of gesticulated that by pointing to the security lady but was frantically waved forwards again with an Oh for Gods sake expression. Then I gets tapped on my shoulder by an angry security lady that told me I should have waited for my passport check and security questions, the lady on the desk quietly mouthed sorry to me whilst this was going on and I just smiled and let it go which she seemed to have appreciated.
Eventually checked in and no problem with seat allocation...we had arrived 7 hours early after all. I politely asked if she knew of any problems with the plane and was told no.
We wandered in to the shopping area whilst I scanned all the shops for that elusive thing that if it really catches your eye you must have it. Ended up with a pair of MY-VU glasses which are a total extravagance and uneccessary but I love them. I watched my Catherine Tate programme on them plugged in to my iphone...fabulous.
We went for a meal in the italian restaurant at the end of the corridor of shops and I have to say it was the best Spag and meat sauce I have ever tasted anywhere in my life.
Up to the Crowne room which seems to never change, I said hello to the lady who serves drinks as she recognised me from previous trips.
We sat for hours and hours and just whiled the rest of the day away.
I went downstairs to look at duty free and liberally sprayed myself with farenheight, sadly I fragranced myself so much I seem to have gassed a French woman behind me, I was clearly dangerously fragranced. It was the French who invented it though wasn't it.
I went down to where the VA gates are, saw a BA one which suprised me
I wonder what clubworld+ is like.
There were hundreds and hundreds of people all excitable kids running around, bitter looking ladies ( a lot were anyway ) and clearly disinterested husbands so glad I could go back to the Crowne room even if its bland its better than this.
We walked down to board the plane half an hour before any announcement would be made and as I suspected there was a scrum of 'don't you dare pass me' looking economy passengers around the priority sign......why does this always happen, if you resent UCS and PE passengers so much why do you hug the priority boarding sign and block the entrance...get a ticket and try it yourself!!
Fortunately an eagle eyed agent was scanning everyones boarding passes from a distance, he came straight to us and said 'Sir you have a purple boarding card please go ahead, erm excuse me can you move aside thankyou' after some tuts and jabbing of Walmart prams and if looks could kill expressions they moved and we could board.
When we got on the plane we were first in Upper, the lady at the door said hello we have seen you before which was nice. Another CC explained my God happy people lol. My first question was is my suite operational which it was. We got loads and loads of bubbly and were constantly asked if we wanted anything.
In 6a/k there was a very elderly lady and her daughter quite old herself and I think the term is visually impaired I would say blind but I am not sure if thats ok, they were both lovely people and clearly needed extra help and they got personal and attentive service from ALL the CC throughout the flight and I was vastly impressed with what I saw.
This is going to suprize all....the food was fantastic I think it was Beef something or other.
I got about 2 hours sleep I do find the beds a bit hard.
All in all the flight was a dream, booze on free flow throughout, nice food and a cabin crew that you really would be happy to spend 8 hours with.
well done Virgin once again.
Just as a codicil please remember this is an EGG tr and should be taken with the obligatory pinch of salt. I still think if you want to board first though you should buy a PE or UCS ticket or just get over it though lol.
