On 02/04/2017 18:58, Graham Harrison wrote:
On Sun, 2 Apr 2017 15:55:48 +0100, Graeme Wall
wrote:

On 02/04/2017 15:33, Graham Harrison wrote:
On Sun, 2 Apr 2017 13:12:14 +0100, Graeme Wall
wrote:

On 02/04/2017 12:54, Graham Harrison wrote:
On Sat, 01 Apr 2017 09:47:12 +0100, e27002 aurora
wrote:


OK, so I have had it with the Woking RailAir coach link. I need an
alternative means of reaching the airport. Train from the South Coast
to Woking is fine. But what are the alternatives for reaching the
airport?

Has anyone used Uber? How does it work? What is the service like?

There are very good reasons to go to Heathrow - I still go there to
catch long haul flights. I'm prepared to put up with GWR to Reading
then the bus to get a non stop flight. Equally Gatwick sometimes via
Reading.

That said, going from Bristol, Southampton or Exeter (all
possibilities for me) means a shorter and easier journey at the UK end
but for long haul will mean a chage of plane somewhere.

Are you in a position to make somekind of trade off and use either
Southampton or Gatwick?


No flights from Southampton to the US.

Not non-stop but by the time you've got to Heathrow (much less fought
your way through) you could be through Southampton and en-route to
Paris (as an example) to get a flight to the USA.

The problem is most Paris - US flights use Charles de Gaulle and flights
from Southampton go to Orly. So no advantage. Years ago Air France did
operate a link between Southampton and CdG but that was best part of 30
years ago.

And Gatwick does
have flights to the US (albeit, not many).

(Let's face it any long haul from Southampton means changing planes in
Europe somewhere).

Personally, I'd prefer the non-stop from Heathrow but that doesn't
mean our OP might not be prepared to avoid Heathrow.


I gather Adrian's complaint is not so much about using Heathrow as the
bus service from Woking which is fairly poor for such an important link.
The NRE website doesn't even give it as an option travelling from
Portsmouth

I think you need to update your knowledge. Flybe operate
Southampton/Charles de Gaulle.

That's fairly recent, thanks for the update. Ignore my remarks then.

[snip]

Her's a final thing. If you're going on holiday to Argentina and one
of the places you wnt to go to is Iguassu how do you get there? I
was so fixated on Argentina that I was assuming fly to Buenos Aires
then back to Iguassu. It wasn't until the agency I was using
suggested it that I realised a better way was London/Sao
Paulo/Iguassu, stay on the Brazilian side and then get a transfer to
the Argentine airport to continue to BA and, after touring othe bits
of Argentina fly non stop back to London.

When we go to Buenos Aires we are visiting her indoors' rellies, so tend
to go direct there and then travel on later, which is the practical
option anyway of heading south or west. Last time we did Iguacu we took
a long distance bus from BA that does an overnight run. It's better
than it sounds, the initial bit out to Zarate to cross the Parana river
is quite interesting but then it gets fairly boring until you are most
of the way there, that's the bit you do at night.

Also when we did it, open-jaw tickets were very expensive.[1] The
modern system of booking each leg separately makes it a much more
economical proposition to do it the way you did.

PS Hope you enjoyed the trip, Iguacu is much more impressive than Niagara.

[1] At the time straightforward return tickets weren't particularly
cheap either.

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