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Old 4 Oct 21, 06:52 AM  
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Sights,Bites and Maltese Delights. Malta Sept 2021. Pre Travel Day

Monday 27 September

All hail the Premier Inn


Check in arrived nice and early at 7.15 and about 10 mins before it opened I realised you could upload everything to VeriFLY so I was scrabbling about to find all the papers as you needed the PLF reference and your vax details.


It confirmed mine straight away but took an age on Andys and I wondered if that was due to the new passport🤔

By the time it all went through as being ok , I had got a message from the BA checkin saying we needed to present our passports anyway so I did wonder what the point was of all that .

It was still nice to know all was in order



Final check and weigh in of cases which were quite close to the 23kg limit mainly due to numerous books, bottles of sun cream and the fact I packed a hefty toiletries bag for each of us in case we ended up in some quarantine facility!

A quick clean of the house - but not going mad as the two boys (they are 24 and 21 now but forever my boys) are here the whole time anyway. Fridge and freezer well stocked and them desperate to usher us out the door. They are having their own little holiday while we are away - no DIY to disturb them for two whole weeks ...

As pre travel day is quite often just a lot of hanging about waiting to set off, Andy had booked the taxi early and it pitched up at 1

Felt like a long time since we had loaded cases in the boot of a car !

Really smooth journey down to the P I Bath Road arriving at 2.15.

Oh we missed you old friend



It was empty - eerily so.




We wondered if it was due to being so early or if everyone was just in their rooms.

It was a bit too early for checkin so we had a Costa and waited.



Hats - these are such a pain when travelling but been very glad of mine here !



I popped out to do a bit of plane spotting in the sunshine which was quite exciting after being without a trip for a little while.

Here are some aircraft in case you have been missing them



The empty PI car park



It was lovely outside, nice and sunny. Definitely getting the holiday vibe

By the time I came back , Andy had checked in

The room looked a bit weird - they had taken out the sofa that was the third bed - it felt a bit basic without it.





We chilled out for a bit and then made our way for an early dinner.

Andy had pre booked the meal deal - we hadn’t wanted all of it as we wouldn’t have time for breakfast so they cancelled it before the meal. As it turns out, maybe keeping it would have been better value...

As we went to order we were informed there was no garlic bread and no chilli so that ruled out favourites of nachos and pasta.

We ordered some Fentimans drinks but they were out too

as was most of the dessert menu

We were early (6pm) and it was also empty



Menu pics - we missed you ..



I went for the mozzarella bites , Andy had wings



Both were very nice.

I had a Dead Spicy cocktail - spiced rum, ginger ale and lime.



Bit weak tbh and not a flying start !

We both went for something off the grill menu



I had the burger, Andy went mixed grill



Both very nice. The food was very good.

The table behind us were going through the dessert options as we were finishing and it was apparent only the toffee pudding and choc brownie were left... neither of which we fancied.

The bill came to £52. Which felt expensive ... and the same price as the meal deal except that would have included breakfast so yep, it is good value if you can make use of it!

Back in the room, I filled out the health declaration form (not eventually needed), wrote the luggage tags and Andy strapped up the cases. We booked a taxi for 5am the next morning . I was slightly dubious this had been successfully booked but we shall see tomorrow.

I then discovered I’d left the iPhone charger at home

Out of practice with packing

Will need to pick one up tomorrow so did a quick check of what would be open and phew, a few stores open from 5.30

I had the classy cocktail in a can to round off the pre travel day experience



Bit sweet I think. Mmmm not the best cocktail start. Things can only get better ...

We watched some NCIS . I’m always amazed we still find episodes we haven’t seen. Feels like the show has been going a hundred years , it’s always on

The room was a bit stuffy and even tho I was tired I did struggle to sleep. Eagle eyed readers will see the time stamp on my VeriFLY photo is 0135 because that’s what I was doing in the wee small hours of the morning

Up next ... it’s a travel day, yay ..
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Great start So strange to see the empty PI car park
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Great start

We are off to Malta in a few weeks time so looking forward to seeing how you get on

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Originally Posted by letty View Post
How lovely to read one of your trip reports again 😊
Hello Thank you x It’s nice to have a trip to write about

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Ha ha, thank you 😘

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Great start So strange to see the empty PI car park
Wasn’t it just ! Very weird. It did get a little busier but not much.

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Thank you , that so kind x

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Ha ha thank you. I was excited too but soon cussing them when I couldn’t get them to close properly. I forgot how much they irritate me

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Great start

We are off to Malta in a few weeks time so looking forward to seeing how you get on
Thank you x

I just posted our first week thoughts (or hints and tips) as I did no planning at all Very friendly place, easy to get around, nice food but been mixed weather and horrible mosquitoes

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Sounds like a busy pre travel day.
So nice to see the pictures of the planes taking off too.
Quite sad to see how quiet the Premier Inn was though hopefully things will be better over the coming months.
I love a bit of NCIS so a nice way to round your day off
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Sounds like a busy pre travel day.
So nice to see the pictures of the planes taking off too.
Quite sad to see how quiet the Premier Inn was though hopefully things will be better over the coming months.
I love a bit of NCIS so a nice way to round your day off
It was weird seeing it so empty. Was great not to be in long check in queues but definitely weird !
LOL we do like NCIS too
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