…lazy. We flew in yesterday (Christmas Day) from London Heathrow on Virgin Atlantic. For anyone that thinks that flying on Christmas day will find a quiet airport and even quieter plane needs to scrap that thought! Terminal 3 at Heathrow was jam packed. The Virgin lounge was heaving. Luckily as we were flying Upper Class we could fly through security as Virgin has this cleaver dedicated security lane that I wrote about in an earlier posting. The f…
…even according the Tokyo Tourist booklet that we were given on the Virgin Atlantic flight I was on, is regularly voted one of the top 2 worst airports in the world by travellers apparently. The reason it gets this “honour” is because it is very far from Tokyo, and can be very expensive to get from into town. My driver told me when I got into the cab that it was about 80km from the airport to the hotel, which was in the financial area of the city….
…ritish Airways Customer Service and the most read posting on the blog to date which is British Airways versus Virgin Atlantic…
…4 hours and it took me about 7 minutes to get the Terminal where my Virgin Atlantic flight was leaving from. It was, though, quite hard to get to the hotel when I was dropped off by my car. We seemed to drive around it a lot before getting to the actual entrance. The location is the hotel’s main benefit. Other than that it has 2 other strong points in my view: 1.The Marriot beds and pillows which I think are fantastic and really comfortable. 2.Sil…
…to New York Newark. This leg of my trip was part of a round trip on Virgin Atlantic from London Heathrow – Los Angeles – New York – London Heathrow. As Continental is a partner alliance airline with Virgin they did the internal US leg. As it was a business fare, I was travelling First on Continental. The Continental flight was so close to being good, but just not quite there considering how much it costs. Though I believe these days not that many…
…wings” round your seat back so you are blocked more from view when sleeping. Nice! To read why I prefer British Airways to Virgin Atlantic at the moment: click here…
…iginally uploaded by garybembridge. Read previous instalment: Crossing the Atlantic April 3 11:05am Yesterday after 5 days at sea, we arrived at the island of Madeira off the coast of Africa around 12 Noon. The good thing about arriving at that time versus the 7am, that ships usually plan to arrive at ports is you are up to see the ship approaching the island in the distance right up to docking. The island of Madeira looks stunning. It is very hil…
…the front of P&O Arcadia See my photos from Antigua on FLickr: click here CLICK HERE TO READ NEXT INSTALMENT (Crossing the Atlantic): click here…
…visible that sale was collected and exported from. On the one side is the Atlantic, which is much rougher with bad currents, and so people do not swim there (although there is a new Marriot complex that has recently opened that tales advantage of a natural reef and a man made break to make it safe for guests to swim there). We then went flying down the hill on our bike, which was a bit scary as it is steep, and cycled to a near-by beach for a glo…
…to do with the hotel which I was pretty pleased with as usually Ramada’s I have stayed at have been not that great. The rooms were a good size, clean and comfortable. The reason for being unhappy was it was after a long and bad day due to Virgin Atlantic (who I usually praise) who treated us all so badly after a problem with one of their planes – we took off from Newark and 40 minutes later after dumping our fuel was forced to land at JFK… more o…
…inment choices are not as good as airlines like British Airways and Virgin Atlantic – they are pretty helpful and caring on board. They also seem to have a very good time keeping record (so maybe I will get that connection!) I will post a comment/ review about the flight and the service – and if I am feeling a bit cheeky take some pics of the seat/ bed and cabin. I am writing this posting in the First Class lounge at Heathrow and will try and take…
