Monday morning came around and it was time for our trip to Heathrow. We both couldn’t check in online for some reason and the app said to get to the airport early to sort it out. We left at midday for our 18:20 flight. Arriving to T5 in 45 minutes from home a big police operation was going on with loads of armed police at the entrance to T5. Good to see.

We used the first check in area.

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Turns out that when my wife asked BA to change her name on the ticket they did not reissue the ticket so the check in agent had to ring the customer services and get them to re issue it. It took a long time due to the new system FLY. They couldn’t get it to work for 45 minutes but we got her checked in and off to security we went.

About 5 people in the queue today at south security fast track so through in a flash. Today we used the millionaires door.
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The guy in front of us was send off to go around but she opened the door for us and let us in. A quick check in with the desk and we were through into the lounge. We headed straight to the bar and ordered a glass of champagne each. LGSP is a lovely champagne very crisp and easy to drink.
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We went out onto the terrace where my wife rang a few people and I checked up on our flight and some other information.
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At 14:00 we went through to the dining area for some lunch. Started with another glass of champagne.
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I had the Ham hock and mustard terrine with piccalilli and soft boiled quail egg.
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My wife had the soup which was carrot & rubarb which was differnt.
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For mains I had the BA burger with cheese & Bacon.
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Tasted great but looked like it was a cheap Tesco frozen burger. I had a glass of the Clos des Jacobins 2006 Saint Emilion from Bordeaux which was great.


For desert I had the Chocolate Brownie with mini profiteroles and salted caramel. It was just the right size for lunch.
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At 3pm it was time for us to see what the cabanas are like. I asked before trough you first to book us one for 3pm onwards. It’s a nice room quiet away from everyone. We watched some news but nothing like the lounge in Dublin.

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At 4pm my wife went off for her treatment of a facial. I took the time to have a quick shower. At 16:30 she was back and I went off to check in, I had a few mins until my spa treatment so went into the gold lounge for a look around. If anyone complains about the GF lounge again I suggest they go up stairs and see how good you have it.

I had booked the back message which was a 10 minute treatment and it felt great. When I got back we had enough of the cabinas so we went back out to the balcony and ordered the espresso martini. It was good and strong just want we needed to make sure we stayed awake for the flight ahead.
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Once we got our drinks it came up on the screens that our plane would be leaving from the B gates. We finished up our drinks with 40 minutes to go and went down to the train.

We arrived at the gate to loads of people waiting around. I went off and took some photos of the bird that we would be on for the next 6 hours.
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They called all priority at once so it was a bit of a scrum at the gate but we were about the first 20 people on the plane. We were shown to our seat which was 2A & 2K for this flight. Looking it up before hand I knew it was a full F for this trip.