Book it Danno! A Five Hour Layover at Dublin

Book it Danno! A Five Hour Dublin Layover

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As I was in no rush to go anywhere once I landed, I followed the path immigration – where I was cleared quickly, and to terminal 1 arrivals to pick up my bag.

Ebola warnings…

To Baggage claim

Well… there wasn’t much of a wait if I’m honest.

Now, five hours is a tough number at Dublin. 6 hours would have been slightly better – as that would allow me to escape the airport for a bit. 5 hours is a bit tougher – with 40 minutes into town each way, an hour needed at the airport on the way back – reducing the available time in the city to 2 hours and a bit.

Considering my body didn’t know what time zone I was in still, I scrubbed a visit to Dublin City Centre Rather, I decided the best thing I could do was to try and check in for the flight back to London… which was a lot more difficult than it seemed. Whilst I had managed to check in on-line, there was the small matter of my luggage.

Heading up to departures, the British Airways counters were closed, with an agent curtly telling me to come back at midday.

How nice.

I headed back down to Arrivals, and to a location where I knew where there was a power plug I could use. With that – I camped out and got on with dumping the images onto the laptop’s hard disk.

Considering it was the best part of 60GB being loaded – two hours flew by. Additionally, Dublin Airport offers free WiFi – a decent passenger amenity for a major airport.

Of course, being the arrivals areas of an airport – you do get a few odd people. One wanted to borrow my USB Power source and then my power adaptor. Eventually I got tired of this and packed up and headed to departures.

Terminal 1 Departures level

British Airways check-in still hadn’t opened at this point, so I spent some time checking the bag was packed reasonably well.

By this time, check-in had finally opened. I dropped my bag, and got my boarding pass for the flight to London.

With that, it was another trip through security and back to the DAA Executive Lounge.

Back through the building yard.

Well, I might as well be comfortable whilst waiting.

I headed into the lounge and continued the image loading and sorting out images (whilst giving up on uploading images – the network wouldn’t take it with the HD videos I was shooting with the DSLR).

Lounge pictures (taken from the earlier part of the trip report – nothing changed in 6 days)

It gave me time to calm down a lot more, and to feed myself more coffee. Bubbly Alcohol is nice – don’t get me wrong, but coffee has its purposes.

With enough caffeine to get me to London, and my brain slightly more organised (let alone myself), time was starting to go against me. I therefore headed to the gate where the Airbus A320 was waiting for departures.

What a building yard.

Eventually, I arrive at Gate 301, which was being set up for a British Airways departure.

In the gate pen

The waiting Airbus A320.

There were queue inspections, with an agent policing the Club Europe queue – and ejecting those who didn’t qualify.

Eventually, boarding was called – and I headed down the jetway for the final flight this trip…

Next: British Airways BA0837 Dublin Airport to London Heathrow Airport in Club Europe

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