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Policemen are getting youthful and flights are getting earlier. We’re leaving Gatwick at 6.20am, which suggests arriving on the airport by 5am.
Except you reside close by, this entails not sleeping in any respect or setting the alarm for 3.30am or so. No surprise there’s a rising alternative of accommodations close to the airport, most with sealed home windows and overcrowded eating rooms.
Stanhill Courtroom Lodge, however, is about in 35 acres of Surrey countryside and isn’t even on the flight-path, regardless of being ten minutes away out of your check-in desk.
Stanhill Courtroom Lodge presents rooms beginning at £89 and boasts a elaborate restaurant referred to as 1881
Double rooms begin at £89; there are nice views and a good terrace for drinks and meals off the Patio Bar menu.
That’s the excellent news.
The unhealthy information is that it’s a colorless and airless baronial pile, which could not get your vacation off to the most effective of begins, particularly should you get on the mistaken aspect of the barman, who takes offence when my spouse asks for a gin and tonic to be served in a wine glass.
Even so, it’s laborious to quibble concerning the value and there’s a elaborate restaurant referred to as 1881 (the 12 months the home was constructed) for a leisurely early dinner earlier than you set the alarm.
The lodge is about in 35 acres of Surrey countryside, and is simply ten minutes from Gatwick Airport
Arriving with heavy instances, we’re stunned that our room is a great distance from reception and we ask if we will swap, even when it means a complimentary improve, however there’s no budging.
Getting away within the morning is a wrestle and I might have thought {that a} lodge that trades on its easy accessibility to Gatwick would have somebody at hand in any respect hours.
So it’s again to one of many no-frills digs subsequent time.
