At Terminal 3, Priority Pass gets you access to two lounges: No1 Lounge and Club Aspire Lounge. Through the benefits I get with my Amex credit card, I get a couple of free lounge accesses per year through a Priority Pass membership, which, given the special occasion, we had saved for this trip. Given all of the reports at the time of travelling about the endless queues at UK airports, we were more than happy with the time it took us. There is a hopper bus that you can take for cheaper, but we decided to go for the easier option of an Uber.Īfter being dropped at London Heathrow’s Terminal 3, we got through bag drop within around 15 minutes, which I think was aided by uploading our Covid and travel documents through the VeriFly app the night before as recommended by British Airways, and proceeded through the security within around 30 minutes. At around 12:30 we booked an Uber to Terminal 3 departures, which was £11.70. After a good breakfast (£16 for full English hot food and £13 for cold continental) we packed up the room, checked out, and relaxed in the lobby for half an hour. We had a good late check-out of midday at The Renaissance, and given that we weren’t flying until 16:40, we made the most out of it. Liv joined me later for some food, which was fairly expensive but well-portioned, before we headed back up to get some sleep before the flight the following day. We checked into a decent-sized and comfortable room at The Renaissance, helped by very friendly staff, and whilst Liv had a nap I headed down to the bar and grabbed a couple of pints whilst watching the football. We received the results by email around 40 minutes later with our Fit to Fly certificate showing we thankfully both tested negative. Once we arrived they scanned the QR code, checked our passport details, and then swabbed both our noses – we were all done within 5 minutes. When we booked online we were able to book a timeslot and received a QR code. We were fairly nervous about the process but it turned out to be super easy. It wasn’t the easiest process to find out on the Government website which test we needed, but there was a useful questionnaire on the ExpressTest website that outlined which tests you need for which country. As we would already be in London the day before, we decided to book an ExpressTest antigen test at a drive-through facility at Heathrow Terminal 4. In order to get into the US on the following day, we were still required at the time to take a supervised PCR or antigen Covid test no more than one day prior to flying. After lunch and a quick walk down the canal and back, we drove the final hour of the journey to London Heathrow. The description in the book is pretty close to how I imagined the pub, which in real life serves a good range of beers and food. The pub is featured in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials prequel ‘La Belle Sauvage’ as the inn which Malcolm Polstead’s parents own. On the way down to London Heathrow we stopped off in Oxford, around 3 hours drive from home, to meet my cousin and his partner at The Trout Inn, Wolvercote, a beautiful pub and restaurant located on the banks of the River Thames. We used Holiday Extras to find the best deals but ended up booking direct with The Renaissance for the same price. This came to a fairly reasonable £239 which wasn’t so bad and the cost was fairly comparable to hotel stays plus hotel parking. After some to-ing and fro-ing, we decided to head down a day earlier and booked a stay at the Renaissance London Heathrow where we could also leave our car for the 16 nights we would be away. On our original honeymoon booking, which we had to postpone when we postponed our wedding in June 2021, we were due to fly from Manchester, however for 2022 the flights just didn’t work out the same. On Saturday 4 June we packed up the car at our house in North Manchester to make the drive down to London Heathrow. No listicles, no guides, this is just a run down of our experiences along the way. One week after myself and Liv finally tied the knot at Gibson Mill in Hebden Bridge, we jetted off on our honeymoon to Las Vegas and Mexico via a night at a London Heathrow Hotel.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |