A number of flights from America arrive very early on the ‘last’ day. On my recent tour of Texas we landed at 7:20am at Heathrow. This can’t be called a day, surely? Especially when there were later flights available.

I know one could say that by going westbound, you gain another 5 to 8 hours but that means one could be up 20 to 24 hours, depending how far you have travelled to get to Heathrow! So the next day you could still be tired.

I see that nearly all tour operators advertise holidays by ‘days’ but is this really correct in situations like this?

Cheers,

Bob

On my recent tour of Texas & New Orleans, the last day (11) we landed at Heathrow at 7:20am. Hardly a day I think you would agree. On day 10 in New Orleans we had to leave for the airport at 12 noon, so that meant about 3 hours for a last minute shop or stay at the hotel. If we had got a later flight and left for the airport at 4:00pm (and there was no problem with connecting flights) we would have had an arrival time at Heathrow at about 12:30pm. The main plus would have been 4 extra hours in New Orleans on day 10, which could have included another local trip (and there are plenty we could have gone on if we had more time).

I am sure this happens on other tours and with other operators.

So to sum up ‘a day’ can be very short.

Cindy

Should transatlantic and long haul holidays be described as ‘nights’ or ‘days’.

A number of flights from America arrive very early on the ‘last’ day. On my recent tour of Texas we landed at 7:20am at Heathrow. This can’t be called a day, surely? Especially when there were later flights available.

I know one could say that by going westbound, you gain another 5 to 8 hours but that means one could be up 20 to 24 hours, depending how far you have travelled to get to Heathrow! So the next day you could still be tired.

I see that nearly all tour operators advertise holidays by ‘days’ but is this really correct in situations like this?

Hi,

All holiday and tour companies quote in days, this makes it look longer. Knock two off and you will usually finish up with the number complete 24 hour days spent in the resort, touring, etc. Sometimes I have to knock four off because I need an extra day to get to Gatwick or Heathrow.

Regards

Sylvia

Regards

Jaya

I know what you are saying and infact you can loose up to 4 days of the advertised holiday.

My flight out of Heathrow was day 1 of the holiday, infact our Qantas flight did not take off from Heathrow till 2300hrs of day 1. We arrived at Singapore in the evening of day 2. If our "add on" Singapore leg had not been included arrival in Perth, Australia would have been the early hours of day 3.

Return flight from Christchurch, New Zealand was on day 39 of the holiday and return to heathrow was early morning of day 40.

So our 40day holiday was infact 36/37 days only.

I am not including the internal flights we had in Australia as consider them part of the holiday intinery.

Do not see why holiday companies include outward / inward flying days as holidays. Although the excitement of actual going on holiday is part of the thrill in one taking a holiday and flying out somewhere.

Eric

I got very confused booking my summer holiday with Virgin because they talked about nights, but weren't clear on how many nights were on airplanes etc

Cheers,

Bob

Good man listening to the WIFE!!!!!!!

Cindy