Gerbs

I rather enjoy the Hilton T5 to T5 walk but IIRC there is one short bit between the Bath Road roundabout and Western Perimeter Road where pedestrian passage is 'discouraged' via a little stick figure with line through.

corporate-wage-slave

Let me welcome you to Flyertalk and to the BA forum tvlpro. I hope we will see more of you here, we're always pleased to see new people join up with us. Our 6F is a real travel enthusiast, quite unmistakable at that, and I'm quite sure we will find out the result of his approach in due course.

AlwaysonBA663

layz

It's crazy that they didn't make that bit pedestrian friendly, it's only a short bridge and they could have easily put a proper footpath on it without making it much wider.

Although for those who really don't want to use that bridge they can take the long route round. If it's a nice day and you have plenty of time then it's a good bit of exercise.

Sixth Freedom

In the everlasting battle between the Premier Inn breakfast and the Club World lunch the breakfast won. This time. And it was an excellent breakfast too. Bacon, sausage, mushroom, black pudding, hash brown and white toast.

Contemplative remarks: Last time I flew to IAD, ten years ago, I was able to enjoy both. Perhaps the next time I fly in this direction the best solutions will be a little (only a little) of both. Such is the way of life.

Now to proceed across the ocean...

lukew

No bubble?

David_Doyle

I must commend you on those 2 items, which are personal favourites of mine in the Premier Inn breakfast. You have good taste.

TyneTraveller

I too would have gone for that option sir. I am also one who finds Premier Inns decent, affordable usually, and of a decent catering brand standard that offers consistency in my experience. I do hope you indulge mildly in the CW on board offerings, as would be interested to see how you find them after your recent CW sabbatical. I would perhaps not go overboard on the drinking of coke after coke after coke in the lounge for a sugar rush beforehand , although they are starting to offer Coke Zero and Fever Tree ginger ale alongside original options too

Have a great trip!

smokie36

Delighted to hear you had a cracking breakfast.

I ordered a £12 breakfast at the brasserie type place landside departures at T4 yesterday and the black pudding was a thin floppy disc from hell.

We really need to have a campaign to standardise black pudding to Stornoway quality!

Sixth Freedom

Having experienced the new Club World service today I think I made the right choice.

The food and trolleys looked excellent, but took hours to deliver. It was perhaps two and a half hours into the flight before main courses were served. I did however enjoy the second service, with a rather good tapas platter (4x salami slices, 1x small roasted red pepper, 1x parma ham slice, 1x fig wrapped in parma ham, 1x scone + jam + cream, 1x salted caramel fondant.

The aircraft was amazing too. New seats, fresh interiors and delightfully high resolution IFE on the high-J 747 with tail reg. G-CIVV. I had 63K on the upper deck, but only because of a last-minute cancellation/mis-connect/other freed up the seat just in time for me to arrive at the check in desk and ask if an upper deck window was available.

All in all, after a four year stint entirely in Club Europe I would say that Club World is better than ever!

HIDDY

Your opinion is always one I value.

DYKWIA

My first rule of long haul flying... No curries (or anything too spicy) the night before!