Warsaw – London
While in Warsaw and Krakow I had been on the two trips with the same company, so their airport shuttle was very reasonable. Best of all because I planned on being at the airport early, I was picked up from outside the hostel. Until 10am the vehicles have access to the square, so it meant that I didn’t have to drag my heavy bags over .5kms to the normal pickup point. I had booked with Polish airline LOT for my flight to London. It was a change in plans as I had a tooth play up and was starting to need dental care. I felt it better to go to England first instead of coping with a language I couldn’t speak.
After being picked up it was off to the airport, unfortunately I hadn’t realised the initial flight to Warsaw was at the domestic terminal not the international terminal. At the airport there was a free bus to go to the domestic terminal from the International one. It was a ten minute walk there, but because of the heat and heavy bags I chose to use the bus , it arrived a few minutes after I waited at the stop and started filling immediately.
Not a good choice, nearly 45 minutes later the bus left to go to the domestic terminal. I could have made the trip four times! Much to the disgust of some passengers, who got off the bus and walked to the domestic terminal.
Reaching the domestic terminal I joined the queue for the flight to Warsaw,connecting with London later in the day. As the queue slowly made its way through, LOT cancelled the Warsaw flight! Rebooked on a later flight ,it was going to be 8pm before I left Poland for London.
When eventually I reached the terminal , there were several hours to wait until the flight to London. Happily there were Wifi hotspots to use and use them I did. A nice meal at one of the restaurants to finish off the polish zloty that I had left, had a handy plug that allowed me the opportunity to charge the iPad again before catching the 8pm flight. As my big bag had been checked through to London I was relieved of the hassle of carting it around. I found the prices of food in the transit area, particularly expensive, in one place, ridiculous! An amazing 37 departure gates meant a huge hall and considerable walk to gate 18 for me.
The flight to London pleasant, with wonderful views of London by night, especially seeing the bridges across the river Thames. The hostel had a pick up service which I thought I had missed because of the delays. Fortunately the was an hour time change so made it with time to spare. A service that I really appreciated with it being 10.30pm, I was starting to flag!
A few mins later we were at the hotel. Ah, bliss a comfortable bed and a TV that spoke english!
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