Cancun Flight To London, Virgin Atlantic

Cancun To London Flight

Virgin Atlantic flights from Cancun are non-stop,  nine-
hour flight to London's Gatwick  Airport.  
The staff at Virgin are so gracious that they make
 flying a luxury experience again.  

Booking London Flight

I was looking for a direct flight to Paris from the Southwest USA or from Mexico but a good flight at a reasonable rate was tough to find.  I was in Oaxaca in South Central Mexico when I finally booked the flight.  The best options were flights from Dallas/Fort Worth or Cancun and it turned out that the best direct flight to Europe I could find at the time was Virgin Atlantic from Cancun to London. 

Sounds like a round about way but from Central Mexico I had the best choices from either DF, Houston or Cancun. Virgin Atlantic had the best price so I used the savings to augment the cost of a week long ruins trip through Veracruz, Tabasco and Campeche.  

No denying that a week in London was a nice prelude to a Paris trip.  I avoided the half day waiting to make a plane change through Shannon or Heathrow.

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Flight Cancun To London 

The Cancun flight with Virgin Atlantic was a non-stop, nine hour flight to London's Gatwick  Airport. The staff at Virgin made the trip a pleasure.  They are so welcoming and helpful that you are taken back to the old days when flying was a luxury experience.  

Virgin Atlantic ends its nine hour trip from Cancun to London at Gatwick Airport 

From Gatwick I caught a Southern light rail surface train to London Bridge Station and then changed to a second train headed 8 miles southeast to a suburban town where I had booked B&B lodging.

I could have gone direct to St Pancras Station from Gatwick and booked a Eurostar, high-speed train for the three hour trip to Paris but I wanted to tour London for a few days.

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I took a train from Gatwick to London Bridge Station, near Tower Bridge, and then took another train to my B&B 

Stonehenge

I spent about a week in London touring the sights and museums and took a side trip with Evan Evans Tours to Stonehenge. They do a half-day trip in a comfortable coach and they offer a good selection of combination trips to Stonehenge and other sites.

Evan Evans Tours runs a good day trip from London to Stonehenge

London To Paris Bus

A year ago in September I crossed the channel by boat from Dover on my way to Paris. I made a return trip via Air France. This year I wanted to try the bus.

Several bus companies offer the eight or nine hour trip from London using the Victoria Coach Station on Victoria Street in London and landing in the Gallieni Coach Station in Paris. I went by National Express on a new coach with lavatory and reclining seats. 

I had hoped to see some scenery along the way but found the bus using mainly the high-speed toll roads. The crossing got interesting in Folkstone, however, when the bus went aboard a train in an enclosed car for the 25 minute tunnel trip beneath the English Channel.

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The National Express Bus from London's Victoria Coach Station reaches the Gallieni Bus and Metro Station in Paris in 8-9 hours 

I had planned fourteen days in Paris in a combination of hotel and B&B lodging before heading south down the Atlantic Coast to Mont Saint Michel, the Loire Valley, Bordeaux, and Biarritz.   My sights were set on the Stevenson Trail in the Cevennes, Carcassonne, Madrid in Spain, Barcelona, and the Spanish pilgrimage site of Santiago Compostella. 

London was a pleasant way to start this stay in Europe, however, and Virgin Atlantic made the trip a delight.  I spent my days in London visiting the museums and sampling the fish and chip shops and the pub dinner specials.  

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