No surprise increasingly more accommodations are bobbing up at Gatwick Airport. Flights get earlier, and a report variety of them are crammed into the busy morning interval.
Ours takes off at 6.40am, which suggests attending to the airport about 5am. That might require leaving London at 4am — with an alarm for 3.30am.
Otherwise you verify into the Premier Inn on the North Terminal — a hideous constructing that’s heaving on a Friday night time, with ten-minute queues to get a raise to the reception space. After checking charges elsewhere, that is our most cost-effective possibility. We’re paying £87 room solely.
Handy: The Premier Inn at Gatwick North is a brief amble from the airport terminal
The thought is to get there at round 9pm and go straight to mattress. However we will’t fairly resist a glass of vino and a few Caesar salads in Thyme, Premier Inn’s restaurant.
The wine’s wonderful, the salads are far too salty.
However you might not want for a extra upbeat ambiance, as a result of inside a number of hours we’ll all be hopping on a aircraft and getting the heck out of right here.
All we want now’s a cushty mattress in a clear room with mega sound-proofing.
And that’s what we get. Sure, a bottle of water can be good and the cleaning soap dispensers hooked up to the lavatory wall are dispiriting, however nobody is pretending {that a} Premier Inn is ‘residence from residence’.
We’re able to go simply earlier than 5am with a brief amble to the terminal. No worries about congestion on the M23.
And I dare say that if we had booked months upfront, we may have gotten that worth down considerably.
