London Calling

Well today was quite the journey across the pond. We arrived at Pearson early this morning to check into our flight only to be delayed by Air Canada itself! We used the computerized ticket terminals to check in, let them know how many bags we were carrying etc. and we still stood in line about and hour and half before we even managed to get our luggage checked in.

Seeing as we were going to be away from Canada we made our last Timmy Ho's run before we boarded the plane. The flight itself wasn't too bad, Pretty smooth, the usual airplane food, but the service could have been more hospitable. However, the flight entertainment system was pretty good and Sharon and I had lots of movies and shows to watch on the trip over.

Finally arrive in Heathrow and we made it through customs, picked up our bags pretty quick and boarded the express train to central London. After picking up some sandwiches at the airport, we cabbed it to our Hotel. The Hilton Metropole. After waiting another 45 minutes in reception (the Brits do queues really well, however Canada may overtake them soon), we finally got a key to our room.

We get up to our floor and Sharon opened the door to our room to find some man laying in his underwear on the bed. So we went back downstairs, to get ourselves a new room (minus unwanted squatters :) ). Te staff were pretty apologetic and we were upgraded to a full on suite. Which for London is pretty impressive. You'll see the pics below. It has its own separate sitting room and bedroom, and a good size bathroom. Now if we could only get room service to work here... I'll end it here today and post again soon!