Now, getting really excited :D :D Cunard has booked my air.....Virgin Atlantic. As I pretty much expected, it is through Heathrow....but direct from and back to Newark. These flights were not showing up at all on either Orbitz or Travelocity :?: :?: The flight back to Newark doesn't leave until 4pm on the 26th :D ......so should have time to travel down to the airport on that day :?: :?: :?: Now I must really get busy and try to figure out the train schedules :oops: :lol:

Liz Flying direct to Heathrow is another option flights from £37, you need at least 1.5 hours to change terminals. If it is easier to fly up either Manchester or Liverpool we can collect you. http://www.skyscanner.net/gbp/flights/man/lhr/080526/airfares-to-london-heathrow-from-manchester-in-may-2008.html

I don't think you would get a train for that price!

Great news Liz :) Flying south could be a good idea, it would save you having to cross London.

:D :D :D Am thinking now of flying both up and back :D :D Only concern.....I would miss seeing spring countryside if I fly...SO still a work in progress :roll: :love: :love: to Cliff and to Jo who have sent me such helpful suggestions :D :D

Liz, it looks like you might have to fly up and down, the West Coast Main Line might be closed for eningeering work.

:shock: :shock: Oh, dear. Probably cheaper to fly both ways......but really thinking of train up and flying back. Is this for certain, or a maybe :?:, about the engineering work YES, would do it, just to see England in bloom. :lol: And I really like trains :D

It is a for sure on the way south. If you are coming now on the Friday you will be ok. But if you are coming on Saturday, I think you will have problems.

:D :D :D Coming North on the Friday, the 23rd. One thing is for sure.....I've got to stop dilly-dallying and make some reservations :!: :D

You should be OK with train on the Friday Liz, things go pear shaped over the weekend with engineering work at Rugby closing the line, there was a load of problems at New Year because work done over Christmas and New Year over ran and no trains could travel for a few days and work is still well behind schedule so no trains on Bank Hols and Sat afternoons and Sunday mornings over 13 weekends in the summer :cry:

The Bank Holiday here could be why the fares are dear so better to do sooner than later!! :lol: :lol: (nag, nag, nag!)

:D :D :D I'll talk to my TA first thing tomorrow......get him in the loop with this...... And then, will make a decision re: flying.....train.....hotel :D :D