London - Arrival

Arrival to London (Sept 2012):

We took Air transat from YVR -> London Gatwick Airport.  
In the beginning, we worried about this budget flight would be a very uncomfortable ride as the flight tickets are a lot cheaper than other airlines.  I did some research on it, and some said it's those old planes that the passengers had to share the tiny tv monitors....

Yet, the flight journey was a lot better than we expected.  No, we didn't have to share any tv monitors, we each had a touch screen tablet with a lot of movie/tv selections in their program.  The seats were comfortable and it was a peaceful and quiet flight journey:)

Arrival to the hotel: 
Once we arrived to the airport, we went to the train station and we took the train from Gatwick to Clapham Junction.  After we arrived to the Clapham Junction, we weren't sure about the directions to our hotel, so I went to ask one of the staff for directions.  Friendly staff told us that the hotel is only 10 - 15 minutes walk from the train station.  When I showed them our hotel's address, the page had a list of all other hotels from the other cities.  The staff kindly teased about our Euro trip's itinerary and he showed his other colleagues about our busy vacation schedule.  Anyway, we followed his directions and we carried our luggage.  We walked on the uneven stone road/sidewalk, it was getting hot and the jet lag was kicking in.  The walk was actually longer than we expected but we did finally make it to our nice hotel :)



Hotel Verta by Rhombus  - Battersea
We arrived London early in the morning, so we checked in and we had a nice breakfast buffet at the hotel.  The hotel room was nice: spacious with a scenic view.  It faces the River Thames and the heliport.  The room was very quiet, the windows were thick enough that we didn't hear any noise from the heliport.