Going on holiday can be a stressful experience and one thing you need to keep an eye on is the status of your flight. Scheduled departures can be impacted by numerous factors, from bad weather to a backlog of delays.
24.06.2023 - 07:41 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
I'd never used anything other than a taxi to get to the airport, so the prospect of parking there was alien to me.
With a 30-minute journey to Manchester Airport from my house, I always expected a bill to park there would be much heftier than a taxi so never bothered looking into it.
Throw in the horror stories of some dodgy companies taking less than good care of vehicles left with them and a taxi ride felt like a no brainer.
This year however, I decided to price up a week's car park stay using the airport's official Meet and Greet and it was nowhere near as much as I thought it would be.
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Booking it was so simple - you can submit your details online and select which terminal you're leaving from, adding the date and time of your arrival, along with the date and time you're due back.
There's also free cancellation up to an hour before your booking.
On the day I simply followed signs for the T1 Meet and Greet and once the registration plate was recognised from the booking, the barrier lifted to allow me to drive in.
There staff directed me to a parking space in one of the rows and it was there I left it.
I then walked over to the nearby Meet and Greet Reception and used one of the self service kiosks to input the reg, get a label for the keys and a collection ticket needed to pick the car up on my return.
After almost walking off without my ticket, a friendly member of staff alerted me to my oversight, joking that he 'could have had that car'. No machine or AI can replace the job of a human in my book, not when you're as forgetful as me anyway.
With that, it was a case of dropping my keys into a specific slot, leaving strangers on the other side to do
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