and this seemed the best option.Our flight was at 3pm on Sunday 4 Feb but some things had happened prior to leaving Glasgow ..... I had contact Children Walking Tall about an extra luggage allowance. This was no problem. They kindly contacted Monarch who gave us an extra 20kgs between the two of us. On Saturday 3 Feb we were flying from Glasgow to Gatwick with Easy Jet and staying the night at the Holiday Inn at Gatwick Airport. I contacted Easy Jet and under no circumstances would they allow us any extra allowance for our luggage. Miserable
. I emailed them, phoned them, hassled them for days but a definite NO, unless we wanted to pay them of course 
I was so angry with them. So it was going to cost us £100 extra to get the kids clothes, shoes, toiletries down to London. Anyway we knew someone else who was flying to Gatwick the same day as us, also staying at the Holiday Inn, for onward travel to Cuba the same days as us. I contacted the Holiday Inn to see if they would accept a large package on our behalf, they readily agreed to this. So we sent 10kgs by DHL direct to the hotel and the other person very kindly took the other 10kgs in their case and we transferred it to a large holdall in the hotel. It only cost us £18.50 to courier the goods bu DHL to Gatwick from Glasgow.Easy Jet said they would put a note on our booking that I had requested extra luggage allowance but it had not been granted. They obviously wanted to ensure our luggage wasnt overweight. The luggage wasnt overweight - I made sure of that.
We arrived at the Holiday Inn about 3ish. Our package had been delivered by DHL. The other holdall came down on a British Airways flight at 5.30, so we had all our items to take to Children Walking Tall.
We went up on the Gatwick Express to London for a few hours, had a nice meal, a look about the shops, then back to the hotel for about 10pm.
Next day we got to the airport. I was a bit concerned incase they didnt have a note of our extra allowance, but the check in staff at the Monarch desk were fabulous, said everything was on our booking, we checked all the luggage in hassle free. We also booked extra leg room, which was fabulous. So we were eventually on our way to wonderful Goa. The flight left half an hour late but landed in Goa half an hour early which was brill.
At Dabolim I couldnt believe it ..... at customs there was no queue
and we were 2nd in the line waiting 
thats never happened to us (in Goa), not ever. So we cleared customs in about 5 minutes. Then it took about an hour to get the cases 
I knew it was too good to be true. Rupesh, our taxi driver was waiting for us, so thats us on our way to the Marinha Dourada ...... more to follow later on tonight (these trip reports take a lot out of you
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2007-02-22 13:46:33
Sleep_r_us.
not nice. The demolition of the bridge only looks about half done. It is so noisy as well. Will post photos in a few days of the bridge and the work being done. 
took a mental note to log onto the forum and search for a decent laundry in the Baga area.
doing absolutely nothing. After a couple of hours lying about we decided to go for a walk so we walked right along to Calangute beach. It was great to see all the beach shacks, especially lots of the names that folks have mentioned in the fourm, we returned to Baga beach absolutely exhausted and stopped off at St Anthonys shack to see our friends in there and have a nice lunch, before returning to soak up the sun lying at the Oceanic again. 
We spoke to a guy on the beach at one of the shacks and he said Lucky was still here, just working in a different shack, but unfortunately he had gone home as his wife was due their 2nd baby. As we had come this far we decided to spend the day at Arambul. We had some breakfast at the Dolphins View beach shack and spent the day there NEVER AGAIN ive never been pestered by so many 
