We have arrived in Luxor after a good flight with Monarch from Manchester. We stayed overnight at the excellent Premier Inn. Great price, nice hotel and spotlessly clean. The receptionist told us that the shuttle bus was £4 each to the airport whilst a taxi was just £6. If you take the shuttle you have to struggle on and off with your cases plus wait for it to arrive whereas a taxi takes you straight to the terminal and you have no struggle with cases or waiting times. So it was a taxi transfer that took about 10 minutes.
The only problem was that instead of arriving at the flight desk at our normal time of 3 hours before we left it to 2 hours. Bad move as we were at the back of a long queue and there were 4 long queues. Normally we are at the front of the queue and have no waiting. This time we were actually the last people to check in and we were the last people to board the plane. Luckily we had good seats in row 3 so we weren’t right at the back if the plane.
Flight was delayed by an hour because of fog but the captain made up time and we arrived just 30 minutes late. After a smooth transfer through the airport we finally boarded our cruise ship, the excellent Royal Viking Nile cruise ship which is where I’m txting this now. We have a lovely upper deck cabin and we are just about to go down for dinner.
Early start tomorrow so we’ll probably have an early night.
To finish…I would definitely recommend the Premier Inn at Manchester Airport. I would suggest you ask the hotel reception the difference in costs between the shuttle and a taxi and I would always turn up early for check-in.
