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MapisM said:
Is Jack the ripper still around, and active around Luton?!? :ambivalence:
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Its more like Jack the Rip Off. They charge you £4 for dropping people off there, £2 for a trolley and £4 for a semi tolerable security experience. The drop off area is a long uncovered walk from the terminal. Bad luck if you've got luggage and its raining. And good luck finding a seat inside the terminal either side of security and most of the departure gates dont have airbridges so youre waiting in the cold and rain to board your aircraft. And leave plenty of time to get to the terminal because there is often a long queue of traffic on the inadequate access road.

Welcome to broken Britain. As jrudge says we're open for business
 
BruceK said:
England please. Us boys in North Wales dont need an airport. We have the Med on our doorstep.
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You do live in a beautiful part of the world thats certainly true but I must admit that I would never have called it Mediterranean;)
 
prv said:
Could you enter with just an ID card even before the lunatics took over the asylum? Not being part of Schengen, my understanding was that a passport was always required (for us visiting you as well as vice versa).

Pete
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Most of my German colleagues working in the UK don't own a passport. Inter-EU travel is allowed on an ID card, UK citizens only need to buy a passport as we don't issue ID cards.
 
MapisM said:
Blimey folks, you are kinda scaring me.
I wasn't too worried when swmbo booked a flight package which forced us to have an annoying stay in a hotel near an airport, but I wasn't aware that it could be that bad!
Is Jack the ripper still around, and active around Luton?!? :ambivalence:
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Don't let them worry you P, remember you managed to survive Tasmania and the Cook Islands, I hardly think a night in Luton is going to concern a couple of seasoned campaigners like you two ;)

Keen to hear about your Iceland experience :encouragement:
 
You must be joking, C.
Tas was a fantastic experience, in a place as safe and welcoming as the most civilized EU Countries, if not more!

Tonga, on the other hand... :ambivalence:
That's what I guess you are confusing with the Cook Islands, where we didn't go - and probably would have been a much better choice.

Anyway, yep, I'll let you know about our hunt for the northern lights! :encouragement:
 
jrudge said:
I did raise this with Mapism - Luton maybe slightly less stylish than Milan or Rome.


Just as well the UK is " open for business"

Last time I was there I was stopped by customs on the way out (!) and asked if I had any cash with me.

I answered yes. She seemed delighted. Got one. How much she asked? About £15 I replied - mentioning it was a trick question as pretty much anyone would have SOME cash on them even if only a pound coin. She looked suitable deflated!
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It could be worse, it could be Twatwick we were diverted there, must have had the wrong leaves on the runway.

Anyway, I got the idiot of the century, a young trollop, that much make up on it had to be put on by a plasterer and she had that much perfume on she must have been high on the alcohol in it.

She looked at my passport and asked if I had any money and I said I didn't, which I didn't.

I got the barrage, "as a visitor to the country how are you going to support yourself", what? she had just looked at my UK passport so why would I be visiting the country I live in.
I then got the "where are you going to stay" and I couldn't resist, and said i'll find some cardboard and a shop doorway, I can be an idiot too. I only have a choice of three houses.
Then I got the "how can you travel without money" and told her to look at the bottom of my torso and the ankles and she would see these amazing things called legs.

Intelligence? certainly none there, I had both a company and personal credit card, my company car was parked in the car park and was full of diesel so I could get home very easily.
 
Assassin said:
It could be worse, ..................
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You must look suspicious. When I first landed here on the millenium via complete whim with absolutely no idea of where I was even going to stay that night and all of £294 in my wallet all they could be bothered with was that I check into a clinic for tuberculosis screening and shots.
 
Not stylish? We call it "English chic".

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Luton Airport almost achieved cult status in the UK due to a Campari advert believe it or not...
 
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