VS071 GLA-MCO 27 SEP 18 (Premium Economy)
Posted: 26 Oct 2018, 18:09
This is a Trip Report from the Premium Economy cabin
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Unfortunately I couldn’t check in online and as expected was SSSS, however I could see we were being offered upgrades to Upper for £650 which we declined as I think the clubhouse is an enormous part of the upper experience and it certainly wouldn’t be worth it on a day flight from Glasgow although I would like to try the 747 upper before it goes.
We were at the front left of the bubble seats 20 A and C and I can say that the seat and surrounding areas were really dirty, the plane needs a really good deep clean. I’ve marked the seat as poor for this although comfort use it was as good as ever. We took some photos to share with Virgin along with compliments for the, excellent, crew. It was a very windy day at Glasgow so we were delayed 90 mins departing as it was too windy to load bags apparently, which was a first for me. Sparkling wine and refills were handed out and consumed.
Service on board was really good and we were kept well lubricated which was great as we made the most of not bothering to hire a car this time. Uber in Orlando really is fantastic, pretty cheap and we didn’t wait longer than 3 mins in the 10 days. Food was good although I can’t actually remember what I had, maybe due to the above!
We arrived into MCO an hour late but flew directly over the space centre which was nice. Immigration in MCO was about an hour and a bit as our late arrival had put us behind a Manchester (I think) flight. We then Ubered off to our hotel which was Avanti Palms resort. We stayed here as it was cheap and we’d stayed at the sister Avanti resort a few years ago. Unfortunately we didn’t like this hotel at all, for various reasons I can go into if anyone is interested, so we moved to the Castle hotel by Marriott which was excellent and a great time was had in Orlando with amazing weather.