It’s our turn for VS103 to Atlanta today, followed by a DL flight down to New Orleans. I’m feeling a little spaced out after an early (for us) 5:30 start after one of those nights waking up every half hour to check the time (even though you know you set the alarm). Hopefully a small champagne may help.
We overnighted at the Hilton at T4 (almost the last gasp of my Hhonors points) after trying the public transport option to get to Heathrow. The Hilton was fine, though I did overindulge a little in the Lounge. And why is T4 the only terminal not to have an M&S food store? It did give us a reason to try out the intra terminal public transport options, including what must surely be one of the shortest train journeys in the world.
Our journey down from Huntingdon was all on time and reasonably bearable, though the Piccadilly Line is really not designed to take the amount of luggage it does.
This morning we took a car from the Hilton, a smart Mercedes that arrived on the dot of 6:15 which dropped us at DTCI spot on 6:30. Originally I’d booked for 6:00, but after reading Dickydotcom’s tale of waiting for DTCI to open I knocked it back a bit. Thankfully the barrier did rise for us - the last two occasions we’ve attempted to use DTCI it hasn’t. Check in was as efficient as it could be, but I do miss the days of them having you boarding passes and luggage
tags printed. Security took just as much time as putting our stuff in trays and then walking through a scanner does, and then it was eyes front to the Clubhouse, where we found a bunch of American Airlines passengers being shooed back down the stairs.
And so here we are, feeling very lucky and as we always do wondering what our parents would have made of all of this. As the Clubhouse starts to fill up, I shall sign off and wish my fellow V-Flyers the best of days.
We overnighted at the Hilton at T4 (almost the last gasp of my Hhonors points) after trying the public transport option to get to Heathrow. The Hilton was fine, though I did overindulge a little in the Lounge. And why is T4 the only terminal not to have an M&S food store? It did give us a reason to try out the intra terminal public transport options, including what must surely be one of the shortest train journeys in the world.
Our journey down from Huntingdon was all on time and reasonably bearable, though the Piccadilly Line is really not designed to take the amount of luggage it does.
This morning we took a car from the Hilton, a smart Mercedes that arrived on the dot of 6:15 which dropped us at DTCI spot on 6:30. Originally I’d booked for 6:00, but after reading Dickydotcom’s tale of waiting for DTCI to open I knocked it back a bit. Thankfully the barrier did rise for us - the last two occasions we’ve attempted to use DTCI it hasn’t. Check in was as efficient as it could be, but I do miss the days of them having you boarding passes and luggage
tags printed. Security took just as much time as putting our stuff in trays and then walking through a scanner does, and then it was eyes front to the Clubhouse, where we found a bunch of American Airlines passengers being shooed back down the stairs.
And so here we are, feeling very lucky and as we always do wondering what our parents would have made of all of this. As the Clubhouse starts to fill up, I shall sign off and wish my fellow V-Flyers the best of days.
We can get better, because we're not dead yet
