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How Not To Get Stranded At The Airport

You arrive at the airport 2 hours early for security: airport security is such a big deal these days but the line at the security and immigration desk is a stretch of several hundred people. For some passengers their passports have to be photocopied. This means the clerk has to walk over to the copy machine and back each time. The machine is slow and the papers need to be changed. Glancing at the clock on the wall, you realise you are now within 20 minutes of missing your flight. You feel like running through the gate, but the mean-looking security personnel stop you in your tracks.

Patience, patience and more patience. Now, it's your turn to go through the process. The security turns you inside out. You think they are finished but then they realise you have a new toothpaste wrapped in some shopping bags. This rouses their suspicion, so they now want to empty everything. Before you know it, they fish out the silver-coated, handcrafted figurine that was given to you as a birthday present. They want you to declare it to customs. You feel like breaking down and crying. You, uncharacteristically, yell at him that you are going to miss your flight. He lets you go.

So you barely get to the gate only to find that your flight is delayed 20 minutes. That stretches to an hour. Then 2 hours. Then three. Nobody gives you any information. Rumours start going around that they suspect a bomb on the plane, that there's a part missing and a new jet will be brought in. Surely, this is your second delay on this journey. You wonder whether your trip is jinxed. You have been sleeping for 5 hours. Finally you see people and dogs on the tarmac heading to the plane. Off you go to join them.

Is this scenario familiar? If this ever happens to you, you would wish you owned a home at the airport. But because you cannot have it, an under cover airport hotel is the nearest and the best option. There are three key reasons why undercover hotels are a great option. They are convenient, prices are lower than the advertised rates and they are mostly located very close to the airport. The specific hotel you will be staying in remains a mystery until you have made your booking, however all undercover hotels are between 3 or 4 star quality.

Parking problems are not restricted to those traveling only but also those visiting the airport for whatever reason. When parking lots fill up, travelers can spend precious moments circling for parking, possibly missing their flights. The parking crunch isn't just affecting travelers catching a flight. It's a problem for the people picking them up, too. When airport parking lots are filled up, drivers are forced to park off the airport. This forces them to take buses back to the terminal to meet arriving passengers.

Airport hotels and airport hotels with parking are the right options if you want to avoid these inconveniences. It is a good idea to pre-book your parking if you are going to busy airports such as Gatwick airport parking and Heathrow airport parking.

In England, the Undercover Hotels are available across key sites including Gatwick, Heathrow and Manchester as well as Glasgow, Stansted and East Midlands. The bottom line is that there is a re-assurance that if you are worried about booking a hotel that you don't know the name of then let us your mind at ease.

You could potentially avoid checking into those distressed and over-priced hotel while hoping that the airline will compensate you. It makes a crazy stressful holiday to travel and live rough at the airport when you would be comforted knowing there's an under-cover hotel at the airport such as the Gatwick airport hotels for you to book in advance.

Patrick Omari

Patrick is an expert Research and Travel consultant. His current interest is in Gatwick Airport Parking., Gatwick Airport Hotels and I have a little hobby site safari news.

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