Day two UK

After a early start, and a mad rush to be ready, we checked out of our hotel, and set off on the short walk to the airport. Check-in and security was reasonably easy and we arrived in the departure lounge about 1 hour 30 minutes before the gate opened.

I'm not sure what your definition of lounge is, if it brings to mind a veal crate, then you probably have better idea the "lounge" at Luton this morning than me. We did manage to find a nice premium bit of wall and sit on the floor whilst we waited for boarding though.

We had paid the little bit extra for long leg room and priority boarding. Some of our passengers had also paid for priority boarding.  And some of these seemed to believe that this meant they could remove the barrier and push their family of six to the front of the queue. Surprisingly many of the passengers seemed to accept this behaviour.  Carolyn wasn't one of them, and she spent her queue time acting as goal keeper, at least it was something to do.

I'm pleased to say that none of the frequent queue jumpers were British, if there's one thing us Brits know how to do it's queue.

Day one.

After the car snapping a suspension spring and a couple of trips to the garage to get it sorted, the trip to Luton was really smooth, and we got nearly 500 miles under our belt with a trip to Newcastle yesterday.

We chose a package with a over night stay at the Ibis Luton Airport.  Our parking is with Airparks, about 15 minutes from the airport. Parking there was a pleasure, the staff were really helpful. It was stressless and even quite fun.  A good start to the holiday.

The hotel seems clean and the staff helpful, food is served 24 hours, with a full restaurant open in the evening.

We are currently chilling in the bar, with a decent wine and a shit beer.