Viking! (XL Airways)

Member Name: Beth21

Product:	XL Airways
Date:	28/10/09 (24 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: CHEAP

Disadvantages: not v.comfy

I know XL are no more, But when i flew to Sharm el Sheikh in July with Viking i noticed the cart equipment said XL so i assume viking to be XL.

I booked the flight via teletext, which was a hassle as they sent the hotel through imperial travel, who are useless, and the flights through kiss travel. Not as useless.

Viking allow 15kg per passenger, the average is 20kg, but we managed with 15kg and I own a lot of clothes, 5kg is a lot though and we did have to cut back on the things we would have liked to have taken away with us. For any extra kilo it was £10. A lot! You could also pay what i think was£10 for a seat with extra legroom.

So both flights took off on time and arrived on time which was a bonus! Luggage did not get lost.

The hostesses on the flight were a bit poor, a four hour flight and it took a bout one hour for the cart to get to us. It was not a big plane. If the cart was behind you, you could not go toilet. It really took so long, we were hungry and fed up.

The seats are a bit cramped, coming back, the woman next to me went to sleep as did my boyfriend, I had no leg room, no arm room and was not happy!

The food was not too great, did not serve meals on 4 hour flight.

The toilets were okay, no fancy soaps alike with BA but did the job, if you could get in them though! Sharm el Sheikh a lot of people seemed to have dodgy tummys.

The films were a tad outdated, we had night in the museum one few years old, and he's not that into you. coming back we had bolt, inkheart and meet dave. All a bit zzzz really. Also the screen werelocated every other aisle and the screens were tiny. Bit of a struggle to watch. Have to pay for headphone, i used my i-pod ones! saved me £3!

The flight i did not feel to comfortable had a rough take off coming back which made me scared. then a lot of turbulence. Didn;t feel at ease with comfort.

However the flight was cheap, very cheap which is great. But I think ill stick to BA!

Summary: not again for me thanks