17th May 2025

Well, after a week of mishaps, one being a chipped tooth from eating a rather thick piece of chocolate straight from the fridge (left over Easter egg), to dropping my phone from a great height onto a wooden floor (luckily, no damage, thank goodness for my ESR phone case) to tipping over a bowl of water on to the floor of the en-suite, it seemed inevitable there would be one more thing to make the week complete!

That turned out to be the road to Heathrow’s Terminal 3 being closed and our driver having to turn around and go another way. Luckily, as usual, we had factored in plenty of time so it was no big deal.

We had already checked in last night so just needed to drop off our bags and go through security. As Virgin have their own dedicated suite for Upper Class passengers the process only took five minutes as we were the only ones in there.

We didn’t have to take our laptops out of the bags, take off our shoes or show liquids. The whole area is fairly new so I was wondering if they have the new scanners.

I was particularly proud of the fact that even though we have a baggage allowance of 32kgs per bag, both our bags actually weighed in at just 24kgs, so why they felt the need to adorn them with those orange stickers saying ‘heavy’ is a mystery to me! 🤷‍♀️

Once all the formalities were done we settled in to the Virgin Clubhouse and partook of a very tasty venison smashed burger with some of the best fries we’ve had in a long time! Goes very well with the champagne and Maiden Voyager cocktails!! Hic!!🍹

Maiden Voyager

Note our very own special burger bun!

We will be staying in Vegas for just one night before we collect our hire car from Hertz tomorrow, Sunday, and hope to do a little gambling before we ‘hit the hay’!

Followers of the Blog will know of the problems we had last year with Hertz but we’ve decided to give them one more try to see if there have been any improvements. 🚗

As we have now been up for 24 hours I think it’s time for bed 🛌 so I’ll finish this post here and tell you all in tomorrow’s blog about the flight and our first night in Vegas.

See you tomorrow! 🙋‍♀️