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and why I hate heathrow...
Heathrow
- Cluttered and claustrophobic terminals (maybe not T4)
- Confusing layouts with a lack of clear signs
- Dirty and poorly maintained
- My aircraft gate is always about 1 mile from immigration
- Long long taxiing
- Long delays to take off
- Long delays to land
- A place the size of a city with nowhere decent to eat
- More unlicensed taxi touts than a third world airport
- A relatively new train service (Heathrow Express) that is awkward to get to
- People barking orders at you to take this or that bottle from your luggage
- Lack of clear instructions about what must or must not go through the X ray machines
- T3 departure lounge seems without any natural light, no windows, just a clutter of seats surrounded by staggeringly expensive shops
- A new one way system in T3 that means if you walk to the wrong gate you have to requeue through security to get to the correct gate.
- Rather than giving people space they given them shops
- Going up stairs only to walk for a minute and then go down stairs
- Long delays for your luggage around poorly laid out luggage carousels
- The roads to and from the airport when not subject to roadworks are subject to chaos on a far too regular basis
- Filthy toilets that don't flush properly and doors that don't lock
And out of this world pricing
- The Price of the Airport Hotels (£220 for the 3* Holiday Inn last week)
- The food at airport hotels (£19 for a carvery that featured 2 veg!)
- £8 to take the hotel shuttle buses to and from the airport
- The Heathrow express - £14.50 each way for a 15 mins trip to Paddington, which is very difficult to connect to other London railway terminals
- Duty Free prices that are hardly bargains
- The price of the short and long stay car parking
Wow that feels better, now I've got that off my chest
Last edited by Kettering Northants QC; Jan 11, 2007 at 6:19 pm