Breakfast menu, LGW-ACE 20/11/24

Breakfast LGW-ACE 20/11/24

Although the Frittata looks a little toasty on top, it was just quite well-cooked Spinach with no taste of burnt anything anywhere! The hash brown bites fell apart upon touching them but if you squished them together with some beans and tomato sauce for glue, they kept their shape!

Others in the cabin enjoyed the breakfast Charcuterie plate and said it was good to have something a little less breakfast based on the menu, after having a breakfast in the lounge already!

I got talking to another passenger on the way, who had pre-ordered a low calorie meal, and had a wonderful conversation. She recommended the low calorie breakfast - from memory it had some steamed Spinach, eggs, tomatoes and other vegetables and a melon bowl, and did look rather lovely!

Crew were very attentive, welcoming and proactive and a great experience for a band 4 flight…apart from 1D/F who spent all of the time in the air requesting champagne top ups, had 4 of the miniature vodka bottles each, were declined more drinks, and were rather volatile and shouty (and didn’t see how much the other passengers were rolling eyes at their loutish drunken behaviour). They struggled to get off the plane arm-in-arm as they were rather libated at this point and unable to walk in any kind of a line.

However, some just-desserts; the runway at ACE is short with a rather heavy brake application required. Upon landing and application of such braking, 1D/F champagne-in-plastic-cups flew forwards and up on a little bump of landing, so the remaining champagne ended up on 1D/F’s heads and in odd patches of their clothing looking like an accident had occurred. Whoops.



Rest of Day menu ACE-LGW 25/11/24


Paneer Tikka Masala option, ACE-LGW 25/11/24

I am not sure the correct starter was loaded here; it was a very Quinoa-heavy salad with a sour cream sauce underneath the quinoa, rather than the vegetable salad on the menu. Still very tasty!

the Paneer Tikka Masala was excellent, full of flavour and vegetables, with plenty of chillies throughout, definitely not for people looking for a less spicy curry option.

Delays to previous flights caused by Storm Bert, and a bit of a headwind meant the incoming flight was late. The airport experience was poor- Club Europe check in queue taking longer than Euro Flyer much to the chagrin of my two friends who are ex-Gold and are used to a much more superior experience!

The lounge had a 20 minute queue to get in, for the most unlucky. With more space in the terminal, it seemed more luxurious to sit in the terminal general seating than try the lounge! My friends visited the lounge, queued, but left early, and were not too impressed.

The gate experience was also unpleasant. Despite the usual announcement for boarding by group number, no such rule was enforced, with only one member of staff and one Passport Control officer at the gate. A large queue had formed, but various people arriving to the gate later, felt they were more important than a queue, and so were pushing in. 1A/C had a DYKWIA moment with people in the queue and managed to push in, making others rather miffed in the process.

The 16 rows of Club Europe kept the crew very busy (and getting their steps in for the day with refills and drinks orders) but were still polite and efficient in doing so.