Day 10 - Friday 5 April 2024
Our bags must be outside the cabin at 06:30 and the coach leaves for the airport at 07:45.
Our flight is not scheduled to depart until 11:40 and as the journey takes less than 20 minutes there is plenty of time.
Two Viking staff meet the coach and take two groups to the respective check-ins.
Check-in is quick, and although security in this terminal is closed and we must walk to another terminal to pass security it is relatively painless. So we hunt for the business lounge partner, take a lift and it all goes wrong. There are about 50 people waiting to get in, it's at capacity they say, and when there is a space they give priority to members of their own. They say we must clear the area or they'll call security. So we go down to the main public lounge. We're no longer in Viking's World.
A 65 minute flight delay shrinks to 10 minutes and at last we are in the air with a glass of Champagne.
Good views of London as we descend. We landed at 12:50 UK time and Andy whisks us home from Heathrow. We arrived home at 15:15
Comfort food is needed, so Joan gets fish, chips and mushy peas which we have with a bottle of Villa Maria NZ Savvie.
Now we have to wait patiently for the next cruise in June.
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