Prior to leaving home I had looked at the weather forecast for Guernsey on Thursday and it was showing FOG so I explained to Roxanne not to be surprised if we didn’t get home!!!!
Checked in for our flight and around 15:00 the screen was showing delayed, at 16:30 this then changed to cancelled, we now had to report to the information desk where we were all escorted back through security and baggage reclaim and to the Skybreak ticket desk to rebook our tickets, we were then booked on the first flight 07:00 Friday, at the same time we were given a hotel for the night and vouchers for the bus transfer.
We were staying at the Premier Inn North and on arrival there were around 70 of us with luggage all in reception trying to check in at this point I must say the reception staff were fantastic in their handling of a situation which had been put upon them with little notice, so we checked in and to my surprise we were also given a voucher each for dinner. As you can imagine the restaurant was also manic later on so we were happy to eat in the lounge, the voucher entitled us to a 3 course dinner and breakfast and the food was of a good standard, we didn’t take breakfast as we were leaving early the next morning.
After a good nights sleep (we were both knackered) we caught the bus back to Gatwick and checked in again for the 07:00 flight (It’s FRIDAY now please keep up
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By the time we got through security the flight was showing delayed, at 09:00 we were called to the info desk and issued with £5 vouchers each for food/drink this happened again at 11:30.
Whilst sitting in the departure lounge we could see that all the later flights were being cancelled so things didn’t bode well and at 16:00 our flight was also cancelled, so it was a rerun of the previous day and back to the ticket desk, we were rebooked on the first flight for Saturday 08:30 and this time we were to stay in Premier Inn South with a voucher for £25 dinner and breakfast.
Arrived at the hotel, not quite as chaotic as the previous night checked in and dinner this evening was in a pub/restaurant adjoining the hotel, again the standard of food was very good, another good nights sleep.
Left the hotel SATURDAY morning and arrived to check in only to be told our flight was ALREADY cancelled, this was actually better as it meant we didn’t have to hang around the airport all day, we rebooked for the 08:30 on SUNDAY and were given £5 voucher each for food/drink as we needed to stay until 09:00 in case of any development, as there wasn’t we were again booked into Premier Inn North and were back at the hotel by 10am so a nice relaxing day.
SUNDAY: Checked in took off on time and arrived in Guernsey to Brilliant SUNSHINE back in our OWN ROOM by 10:00……………….
Aurigny Airlines were FANTASTIC and did us proud in the way they looked after us.
My apologies for the long post but TUESDAY to SUNDAY is a long time…………
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