So rather than posting several threads, I'd thought I'd share our experience as a trip report, hopefully with some useful tips and information for Dibbers included.
We used DriveFly parking this time, so we stayed overnight at the Premier Inn Heathrow the night before. We had to pay £10 to park overnight, which is done at check in and isn't immediately obvious how to do this.
The following morning we dropped the car off with DriveFly with wasn't all that easy to find. It's in the short term car park, level 3, zone A, but once we arrived ot wasn't clear where to go. We clarified with a staff member that we were to park anywhere and then just let them know where we were.
The flights were a mixed bag. More on my actual experience of Virgin UC later.
When we arrived at Atlanta, it was chaos, and the queue was about 2 hours long. A lady was shouting about 2nd time ESTAs, but there was confusion whether this meant 2nd time on THIS
ESTA, or second time having one.
We were told conflicting advice so decided to just go through as a couple in the regular line.
Flight on to Orlando with Delta was fine. It's great that they offer IFE on domestic flights.
On arrival at MCO we were waiting in the Magical Express line for AKL for about 40 minutes. I was just excited to be starying the holiday, although both very tired and weary at this point!
We arrived bleary eyed at AKL about 11:30pm. Checking in was sloooow. When we finally got seen to it was close to midnight and we just wanted to crash. We asked for an Arusha side room (having paid for Savannah), and were allocated 3596. At first I was unsure about this as it's right at the end of the Arusha area, inbetween Arusha and Uzima. It was dark and I couldn't see anything. We crashed for the night.
Will the view be any good, will we see any animals? Find out in part 2!
