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London Heathrow – T5

by PerryGolf Staff on January 16, 2010

By Anne Filshie.  Anne is the Group Director of Operations at PerryGolf.

With Rory McIlroy leading the European Tour order of merit, we decided to travel out for the inaugural ‘Race to Dubai’ – the deciding event.   Rory and Ross McGowan are two players whom we know well and wanted to go and support, so we decided to travel on British Airways from Glasgow via Heathrow to Dubai.  This gave me my second experience travelling through Heathrow’s brand new Terminal Five.  Pretty much the entire British Airways service is based at T5, and while they had their share of teething problems, it is a particularly slick operation.  From the main building there are two smaller terminals, easily reached by a continuous monorail.  Apparently the underground luggage transport system is amazing to see, and my experience would be that it works efficiently even with a very short connection time.

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Race to Dubai

by Colin Dalgleish on December 6, 2009

While Dubai made headlines last week over its rescheduling of massive debt, from a golf travel perspective it remains an exciting and vibrant city to visit with outstanding hotels and golf courses, plus of course beaches, bars and restaurants. Their state airline, Emirates, covers the globe and offers direct service from a huge number of the world’s principal cities. The weekend before last I made a trip there for the 2009 Dubai World Championship, the final event of the European Tour’s inaugural “Race to Dubai”. We stayed in the Westin Hotel on the beach. It was excellent and I can recommend it highly.

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