Skip I'm guessing you were hand baggage only but I wonder whether they then delivered the bags to the international "hall" or to the more usual domestic one. More chaos and delay if so.
Never happened to me (yet) - they usually park on stands 21-24 or 1-2 to avoid bussing but with the advent of BE domestic services I guess these are under pressure. Lately I've been bussed to/from what I guess must be stand 11 or 12 right at the west end of the field.
Perhaps the handling agents mistook the aircraft was for the S2000 Rotterdam rotation???