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TRANSPORTATION FROM HEATHROW AIRPORT TO SOUTHAMPTON
h20skibum replied to Gitana's topic in British Isles/Western Europe
We did National Express from Heathrow to Southampton. From Southampton to London, we used International Friends. Tours of Salisbury Cathedral, Stonehenge, and Windsor Castle were included, and they dropped us at our hotel. -
As of now, since the hotel is so new, they do not have a shuttle to the pier. On a nice, sunny day like this, we could easily walk to terminal 1, but it might be more than some would want. The hotel said they may be getting a shuttle at some point, but now they just recommend private companies. I did see Ubers pulling in. It is across the street if sailing Carnival here, but not for Royal. We did that stay at the Holiday Inn in Southampton, and just walked to the ship with our luggage. It was convenient.
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We are sailing from Port Canaveral. Evidently, terminal 3 is used by Carnival. We are at the new Holiday Inn Express. People were just walking across the street. The rooms are nice and new, and huge Sorry for the mess, but this is when we are getting ready to check out. I guess we could walk to terminal 1, because it isn’t that far, but we drove here so we will park at the port. Checking options to get seven of us from here to there in August.
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I don’t know if I will be awake to see the Vulcan Centaur rocket launch on Monday. It is supposed to be at 2:18 am. Allure should be 80-90 miles south of the launch site at that time. Although most of the hype has been regarding the inaugural flight of the Peregrine Lunar Lander for Astrobiotic of Pittsburgh, it also has other important cargo. In true @Ozark_Kid fashion, it appears people are dying to go to outer space. For those Star Trek fans, the ashes of Gene Roddenberry, Majel Barrett, Deforest Kelley, James Dothan, and Nichelle Nichols will also be aboard. The remains and DNA of 338 people are part of the payload, destined for the moon or outer space. You too can be aboard a future flight, according to Celestis’ website. https://pages.celestis.com/memorial/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=12069047671&utm_content=113071528741&utm_term=celestis&device=m&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD_rqy1h0Rmsuqj1Hv79GyOBmtanr&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqsDE7ZrGgwMV4wytBh3oTQqQEAAYASAAEgKPM_D_BwE I believe all of the Star Trek actors are on the Voyager mission to deep space.
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That is a problem with the short cruises. You have to pick and choose the things you want to see. Already, people complaining about shows sold out. Will be interesting to see how long the standby lines are. Too bad our cruise is leaving from Terminal 1 instead of 3. The view from our hotel window. Now that is close.
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It is sailing out of Port Canaveral now. Or, I hope it is, because we board her tomorrow morning. Yes, moving on to part 3 or 4 of our winter vacation. Normally wouldn’t consider such a short cruise, but since we were here, thought we would remedy this. D+ after this one. Would have been there last year, but….. Staying at the new Holiday inn Express at Port Canaveral tonight. This is a nice hotel, so I ended up booking it for our August cruise and canceling our other hotel. It is a little cool here. Dinner tonight was at Fishlips. Tropical heat wave Spinach artichoke dip, which was not quite what we expected. (Sorry, but a couple bites gone before I took the picture. The shrimp po boy was good. 10:30 am boarding time in the morning.
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Speaking of flights….. Our daughter and her family did not have the best end to their vacation. I dropped them off for their direct flight on SW to Pittsburgh last night. So I go to the flight aware website later, to check on their progress home, and the flight had disappeared from the screen. I did some more searching, and found that their flight had been diverted to Nashville. That is not exactly on a direct line between Ft. Lauderdale and Pittsburgh. The official explanation for diverting the flight was that Pittsburgh was experiencing icing, and the engine anti-icing system was not working. Who schedules a plane going to Pittsburgh in January, with a non working system? They did get on another SW plane, but didn’t get home till 2am. So now, grandkids are back to school this morning, probably falling asleep. Daughter had to get up early, and is already in Cleveland for her second cancer vaccine shot. And, Susan and I are tired from being awake most of the night and early this morning, checking to see if they made it everywhere they needed to be.