Originally Posted by
dhuey
Maybe the deciding factor should be how you would feel about 24 hours in San Francisco, and the resulting delay arriving in London. Would that all be bad, or might you be able to enjoy your time in San Francisco. There's lots to do here, of course.
24 hours in San Francisco would be awesome and I can tolerate a day delay as currently I have the day after arrival home scheduled as a rest day. Otoh I have never done a transcontinental red eye or taken a day flight EWR-LON before so that could be interesting too.