We left home at about 9 in the morning and had a good run the the Purple Parking parking area and were soon on a bus to the airport. Unfortunately we couldn’t check our bag in until 3 hours before our flight and so get to the departure side for some lunch, however once our flight check in opened it was very smooth and efficient with several Ryan Air desks open. The only queue we had was for security, I think I would pay the £4 next time for fast track. Once through boarder control we found a very nice Italian restaurant to eat at and the food was lovely.
Needless to say our flight was delayed for an hour and that would of course knock on. One couple got pulled up for oversize cabin bags and had to pay for them to go in the hold. We boarded and found our seats, in one way we were very lucky beside the emergency exit so plenty of leg room but no window and our under seat bags had to go in the overhead locker. The Captain put the seat belt sign on a couple of times for turbulence, but it was nothing to really bother anyone, just a slight shaking,
COMMING HOME
WE hadn’t paid extra to book seats with Ryan Air so it was pot luck what we got, this time row three, but Diana had an Isle seat one side and I had a centre seat the other side, The lady I was due to sit beside immediately offered to swap with Diana so we could sit together, now the strange bit, the window seat was vacant so Ryan Air could have given us adjoining seats anyway. Again this row, as there is only row 2 ahead of us had good leg room.
As we were again late getting away it was quarter to one in the morning when we landed and a very short walk to the arrival hall, my heart sank, there were huge queues at all the Boarder control kiosks, but we were directed to the automatic passport control and were through in minutes, long before the baggage arrived. Overall we were quite impressed with Luton Airport.
Outside to bus stand E and wait for our bus, the wait was longer than I expected and the weather, although I now had an extra shirt and fleece felt very wintery. When the bus arrived we all packed on and returned via the back streets, a much longer route to the carpark, it also involved passing through a police incident. The carpark is fully automated, scan your receipt and a little cupboard opens with your key in it which has a label to tell you where the car is and another bar code to open the barrier at the carpark exit.
From here we made our way to the Premier Inn and it soon became clear why the busses were slow, this time more police and a multi vehicle accident on there normal route, It was 2am when we got to the hotel for a good nights sleep and drive home fresh in the morning.
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