It might be fun to take a boat from LHR-DUB but I am OK on a short flight. My concern is not having our flight or boat trip connected to our trip home if we fly out of LHR. I'm thinking I need to work on United miles and try the business class on the 757-200.

So much can change by next year!

I have nightmares about our flight home from Ireland a couple yrs ago. AA let us book flights round trip out of ORD to DUB and then a month before we were to leave, told us our flight from DUB home was canceled because it was seasonal! We ended up booking a separate flight at our expense from DUB-LHR and then had to race through this unknown airport to make a flight home! But the icing on the cake was when the night before we left Dublin, I noticed online that our flight was canceled! They had put us on a flight the day after and this would have made us miss our flight from ORD-MCI which was also on miles with UA. Not connected! And not smart planning. I called and got the last 2 seats on an earlier flight. There for, we had terrible coach seats in the middle of 5 people across!