Overnighters, Do you enjoy them
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avoid going out with the sleazy hosties
.Holiday Inns are at least quite standard all over Europe and I do find my self mentioning that "home" is the hotel. Doesn't bother me though. But I still love my own bed and prefer my own cooking.
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I'm away for 6 days at a time. Still settling into the routine so to speak. Never know what hotel we're staying at till that day. Fortunately the hotels are min 3 stars, usually 4 or more stars.
Get to stay all over Europe, main hassle is the hotel is usually near the airport and not that much time to go and explore which is a pity. The night freight job gave us more time to prowl around Paris etc.
The plus side is that it's a very social company and chances are there's another 2 crews in the same hotel. If some one had have said to me 5 years ago I'd be zooming around Europe in a bizjet I'd have laughed.
As has been said, a night stop is what you make it. You can stay in your room and watch BBC World or you can venture downstairs and meet some crews or if you have the time, venture out into the town.
Get to stay all over Europe, main hassle is the hotel is usually near the airport and not that much time to go and explore which is a pity. The night freight job gave us more time to prowl around Paris etc.
The plus side is that it's a very social company and chances are there's another 2 crews in the same hotel. If some one had have said to me 5 years ago I'd be zooming around Europe in a bizjet I'd have laughed.
As has been said, a night stop is what you make it. You can stay in your room and watch BBC World or you can venture downstairs and meet some crews or if you have the time, venture out into the town.
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Thanks for the responses. Interesting to see how people experience this part of the job.
Do you find it boring going to the same city several times a year or do you always find something new to do while you are on your stopover.
Do you find it boring going to the same city several times a year or do you always find something new to do while you are on your stopover.
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It really depends on who you overnight with, friends always make a new place interesting, or an old place familar and fun.
The thrill of a new place still entices me, new Pubs, restaurants, discovering the local markets and so forth, but its not that much fun on your own. (I refer to Chimbu above)
Single SO under 26 with similar placed collegues on a 47 in BKK, you're having a ball, however Married with kids and overnighting at the holiday grim on a bypass outside Milan with an early start has probably got to be at the bottom list of fun things to do.
Did a huge (for almost 2 years) week in week out, monday to friday business trips in Euroland, LHR, Paris, Rotterdam,Bonn, Grenoble, Marseille, Athens, Lisbon, Milan, Copenhagen, Stokholm etc.
It kinda wore off after 6 months, but that was for Business and not Line work. ( and I was 26 at the time)
The thrill of a new place still entices me, new Pubs, restaurants, discovering the local markets and so forth, but its not that much fun on your own. (I refer to Chimbu above)
Single SO under 26 with similar placed collegues on a 47 in BKK, you're having a ball, however Married with kids and overnighting at the holiday grim on a bypass outside Milan with an early start has probably got to be at the bottom list of fun things to do.
Did a huge (for almost 2 years) week in week out, monday to friday business trips in Euroland, LHR, Paris, Rotterdam,Bonn, Grenoble, Marseille, Athens, Lisbon, Milan, Copenhagen, Stokholm etc.
It kinda wore off after 6 months, but that was for Business and not Line work. ( and I was 26 at the time)
