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Old Jan 30, 2011 | 5:50 pm
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Originally Posted by sbm12
Because there is no guarantee that the hotel will be able to get you in to your room and a shower. Or that you have a hotel room in which you are staying (day trip). Or that you have time to get to the hotel and deal with that versus the 30 minutes to clean up and get out to the office from the airport.
+1

A few years ago, my boss sent me on the following itinerary:

Monday - client visit in Texas
Monday evening - fly to London
Tuesday daytime - arrive in London, client visit in Greater London (Woking, IIRC)
Tuesday evening - fly to Oslo
Wednesday daytime - client visit

There's no way I would have wanted to go to the UK client without going to Arrivals first. And the tight scheduling didn't allow for a hotel visit, since I wasn't staying in the UK overnight.
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