Quote Originally Posted by joebloggs View Post
when the plane lands, get off quick as you can and head for the que at immigration, and hope your bags are not the last ones to go on the carousel ..

i would say 30 mins to upto an hour from when plane lands to you leave the airport, but like others have said depends on other factors to
To true i have seen people who checked in the same time as us in heathrow get there bags first out and others along with me wait ages

But always something to laugh at while waiting, some of the packaging and size of suitcases and things people bring with them is just unbelivable. Also watching a man apear from no where out of the ground always makes me chuckle (i guess its way to much free sm on the plane which does it along with no sleep)

Always worth being there early particularly the first time, the first time i turned up dazed and confused in manila i stood in the wrong letter area then had a guy hassling me to get a taxi and then to find my wife for me. She was still getting out of the taxi at the time and my scam meter was off the roof and luckily i had kept a 20 or 100 note seperate from all the others and said it was all i had and he buggered off looking for another hopefully richer mug.

May sound over the top but with the tirdness heat and general chaos for a brit is tough, worth planing the place you will stand to the dot. Also maybe a big sign if a popular filght as at certain times i have been it is rammed pack full of people on both sides of the meeting road.

Guys stay where you are let the lady or her driver/brother/aunt walk to you the security guards can get a strop on if you walk over at the wrong time a phill will know when to walk you won't and cause a petty official a chance to wind you up. Basically stay still and out of the road sounds common sense but thats is hard when your mind is all over the place.

Ladies get there early have a decent load on phone, let your Brit know what you will wear and who will be with you do grab a brother, uncle or son/ even just the driver to carry the case/s your boyfriend will be most likely be wilting in the heat, sweating like crazy, disorenietated (a pack of tissues, alchol for hands and arms and a cold water bottle will be as lovely to see as your good self and help put at ease your mahal. Also have change for taxis,tips or any water or snacks much easier for you to pay the taxi and do the tips untill your brit as acclimatised a little.