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Getting to Heathrow for early flight
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I'm flying to New York from Heathrow in a few weeks. I need to be at the airport for 6am. I was going to book in a travelodge, but the closest one has no rooms.
I have a few choices of how to get there: train from Birmingham, leaving at 11pm, changing at Euston. That gets me there 4 hours early so I have to hang around the airport all night, and get no sleep. But it only costs 14.50 if I book now.
Or I can get a coach, which costs 29 pounds. They leave all through the night from Birmingham, but I still end up missing a night of sleep.
Oh, the final option is to stay with a relative in Hertfordshire, then I can get a bus from there to Heathrow at 4.30am...but I then have to pay for the cost of the ticket to get to her house and lug all my bags around.
I can't sleep on flights, and I want to enjoy the flight/watch films/indulge in the free drinks. Plus when I get there I have to use public transport to get to my apartment. I'm really bad with no sleep, grumpy and stuff..
I'm getting all confuddled... anyone got any ideas?? I should have chosen a better flight time!
I have a few choices of how to get there: train from Birmingham, leaving at 11pm, changing at Euston. That gets me there 4 hours early so I have to hang around the airport all night, and get no sleep. But it only costs 14.50 if I book now.
Or I can get a coach, which costs 29 pounds. They leave all through the night from Birmingham, but I still end up missing a night of sleep.
Oh, the final option is to stay with a relative in Hertfordshire, then I can get a bus from there to Heathrow at 4.30am...but I then have to pay for the cost of the ticket to get to her house and lug all my bags around.
I can't sleep on flights, and I want to enjoy the flight/watch films/indulge in the free drinks. Plus when I get there I have to use public transport to get to my apartment. I'm really bad with no sleep, grumpy and stuff..
I'm getting all confuddled... anyone got any ideas?? I should have chosen a better flight time!
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ETA: Just read that you find it hard to sleep on flights.
1. Book a different hotel.
2. Go earlier to the airport, and try to sleep there (though they frown upon that I think).
3. Sleep during the day before, so that you don't need to sleep that night.
Can't find any reasonably priced hotels at Heathrow at all, or I would stay overnight.
They never do with me. On a long flight, I'll drop a couple before I get on, crash straight out when I am on there. As soon as food is put in front of me, I wake up, scoff it and drop back off, no worries. Fully functioning when I get off the plane, too.
Also, if you don't take the stuff regularly, it won't take much to send you off
Come down to London the day before, find a cheap hotel on the Piccadilly Line, then get the first tube into Heathrow, it will cost you a lot less.
I assume you're joking, but not the best advice I've read all week. budda's idea is a good one, although I'd never risk it with check in. The last time I went to the States from Heathrow it said 3 hours and that's exactly how long it took.
Ahh, but thats probably because you got in line like a mug. The trick is to turn up later than they say, act all flustered and ask for help from a staff member, they dont want you to miss your flight so they push you through the system faster if it gets too close.