Friday, November 1, 2024

Oct 12 -13, 2024 - Travel from Houston to Edinburgh

Our international flights were to/from London Heathrow airport.  It is a big airport and it took us time and effort to get from Terminal 2 to Terminal 5 for domestic flight from LHR to Edinburgh.  We were early at the airport and were able to use the Chase Sapphire Reserve supported VIP clubs for resting.  

We planned to take the Airlink 100 airport express to our hotel (Princes Street Suites).  Based on Google Map, we need to walk a little bit at both ends. It turned out after we got out of the Edinburgh Airport, the shuttle stop is just outside the gate.  The 6 minutes walk after we got into town center of Edinburgh was very easy too.  In addition, there were a lot of tourists did the same walking with luggages just like us. 

After we checked in, we found a huge suite with living room and kitchen with full kitchen equipments.  We were truly impressed.  After shower and a short nap, we went out and walking along Princes Street to the Princes Street Garden. Immediately, we saw the beautiful fall foliage in the garden.  More impressive to us was the backdrop which includes old town buildings and the Edinburgh Castle.  We also saw the Scottish National Gallery on the west side of the garden.

Then, we walked to the street level to see the Johnny Waker Experience shop.  We went in for just looking and checking on this famous store.

Then, we went to the Dome restaurant for dinner.  Unfortunately, it was fully booked and we had to book a table for dinner two days later.


On the way, we just got fast food at Gregg’s and brought it back to hotel for dinner.

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