To access the Pullman
hotel it is necessary to cross in to the main terminal to check-in level and
then the Pullman is out the front across the road. Easy when you know
how! I had requested a room with a view when booking, and when repeating
the request at check-in the staff member knew exactly what I wanted. The
views are from rooms in the West Wing, even numbers between 2706 and 2732 on
the seventh floor. There is no 2700/2/4. The view looks out towards
the new terminal 2, with parallel runways on the right and a single runway on
the left. It overlooks some remote parking for Terminal 1 but most of the
parking is out of sight behind you.
March 2025
We’d booked our usual high-floored Exec Room in the West Wing only to be told that we’d been upgraded to a Suite in the East Wing. As it was high-floor and north facing, we accepted the kind gesture. Having stayed in the East Wing, I feel being in the West is slightly better for spotting, but by no means essential. For the first few hours runway ops were northerly so all deps are easily seen.
Around 2100 ops were changed to southerly and have remained so ever since. Naturally, inbounds are way easier, but the 30 or so needs that were already in were hard work but not impossible. With planning, and allowing for the lag in FR24/ADSB/ANRB you can have success, it was a bit of a Benny Hill like scenario however, up and down the corridors to catch the deps. God knows what the camera security team were thinking!
Credit Bulldog and Cat
