Comments | applez: London Calling

applez

London Calling - Special Request!

Feb 23, 2007 18:39

If I find myself transiting through Heathrow Tuesday 13 March night with a connecting flight 10.30am the next day, is there anyone I can crash with overnight??? I promise to fulfill any portable noncriminal request from Italy or San Francisco (though in the former this will depend on a very narrow shopping window, and in the latter wedding gift ( Read more... )

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fba February 23 2007, 23:30:30 UTC

I suspect you'd be better crashing on a bench at Heathrow than coming out to our part of deepest darkest Oxfordshire.

applez February 23 2007, 23:38:41 UTC

Yeah, as I was thinking...but it would be a shame to have an 11-18 hour layover, overnight, and spend that in Heathrow. Not with the dazzling lights (and perhaps even a tepid shower) of London so close by.

My overnight priorities would be: friends, friends, maybe some beer, a little curry, friends, oh, and perhaps a shower before completing the next leg of my journey.

No tickets bought just yet, mind you.

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Ta for responding, btw.

despotliz February 23 2007, 23:59:21 UTC

I am also not really much use for crash space except as a last resort, but it would be good to see you if you have any spare time in London :)

applez February 24 2007, 02:06:09 UTC

Ah cheers for the emergency offer. If there's a mass demand for an admittedly mid-work-week gathering, I might have to add another day in London. :-)

frax February 24 2007, 09:49:39 UTC

Z - STAY WITH US , we are 5 miles from Heathrow!

celestialweasel February 24 2007, 11:43:19 UTC

You could stay with us, I could dump you at Heathrow in the morning (and possibly pick you up depending on when you arrived).

I assume that if the websites on which you book flights on show a connection as being viable you are probably OK. The Heathrow website is vague about how long you should allow, but a couple of other links suggest 2 hours. You wouldn't have to clear immigration as it looks like you stay 'air-side' but it looks like you have to go through security.

This is one airline's website which has some numbers on it (suggesting numbers over 1 hour) http://www.jatlondon.com/Info/transit.htm

You can probably find out which terminals it will be. To and from Terminal 4 will almost certainly be longer.

When we came back from Colorado recently I was a bit worried about the 40 minute connection time at Dulles, but basically we just had to walk about 3 gates - but then security in the U.S. is still on the whole lower than in the UK.

ext_3059 February 24 2007, 11:48:35 UTC

Gots crash space. I suspect frax is closer, though - you're looking at 60-70 minutes by rail between Heathrow and Finsbury Park.

-- tom