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| UK Trip 2000 |
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Oooooo there's a 112 Photo Slideshow!
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When we got back from our last trip to the area, we felt we'd missed too much due to time and travel
snafus so we itched to get back. With very few exceptions we planned and booked this trip
entirely on the web. There is a link above to Links, which will show you the urls we used as well
as some we found useful once we got there.
We began planning the trip in the Fall of 1999, basically watching airfares in the newspaper. Once
they dropped to a nice low price we started pricing them using
CheapTickets.com.
Once we settled on a date, we booked the flight there. We got tickets on a
direct SFO to Heathrow flight on Virgin Atlantic for $368 each, round trip! We were then able to
decide where we wanted to go in the UK and when. This took a week or so, shuffling little pieces of
paper around on a calander. We got in touch, via email, with our "pen-pal" in Ipswich who offered
to let us stay in his flat there for a week. We wanted to see York and Edinburgh as well as
Salisbury and Bath. Once we grew tired of shuffling, our itinerary looked like this:
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March 23rd | Fly SFO to Heathrow: Arr AM March 24th |
| March 24th | Stay 1 night in London to de-jet-lag | |
| March 25th - April 1st | Ipswich/Shotley Gate with day trips to London | |
| April 1st - April 4th | York | |
| April 4th - April 7th | Edinburgh | |
| April 7th - April 13th | London | |
| April 13th | Fly Heathrow to SFO, arr in the early afternoon |
I finally found a place that looked nice, was walking distance and in our price range, so I used
their on-line form to make the reservation. No response - panic. So I faxed them, and we
got it all settled that way no problem. The day before we left we double checked everything.
That's when we noticed we'd missed a day! We had no place to stay on April 7th in London! We remembered
seeing a cool place on the web the last time we booked our trip called the Pavilion: The Rock & Roll Fashion Hotel.
It looked way cool but was a bit pricey. This time we thought, what the hell, it's only for 1 night.
Had a hard time finding it again... their website wasn't very up to date. We tried booking it
through a place in Colorado, which did not get back to us via email before we left. We had to
keep checking our email once we got there to see if it was booked or not (it was).
The trip overall was a complete success, with none of the transport problems we had last time.
We've gotten it out of our system now for awhile. If you'd like to browse our 5 rolls of pictures
just choose one of the indexes above or below. They are organized by geographical location. If you
would like a chronological tour, click on the Begin Slide-Show link. There are 112 pictures at this time.
 Edinburgh |
 The Highlands |
 London |
 Salisbury |
 Suffolk |
 York |
 Bath |
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