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Hi all
Looking for opinions on whether it’s worth paying to books seats. Flight is in March so majority of seats are currently available. LHR-LAX in business. Looks like it will be club suite in a 777-300 based on the seat plan. It’s me and husband plus 14 and 17 year old (kids first time in long haul business). Not too worried about being split up on the return overnight flight and we won’t bother paying for seats then but wondering if it’s worth it to sit together on the day flight out, and to be in the smaller forward cabin. Would be £472, we don’t have status at the minute that will allow any early seat selection for free. Thanks
IMhO spend that ££££ on doing things once you get to LAX rather than on reserving seats.
I agree. While the centre pairs have a level of togetherness, aisle/window or windows in different rows require getting up and walking a few steps to interact, so it doesn’t really matter how many steps. There are no ‘bad’ seats with CS.
Hard no. In CS don’t think I’d pay £47 to select seats, let alone £470. The differences between any seat are incredibly marginal; even if you’re next to the bogs you can just shut the suite door. If you’re worried about any given seat being noisy (and you can’t predict the position of the noisy baby/child/drunk/snorer anyway) then a pair of decent noise cancelling headphones are also significantly less than £470…
Totally agree – the most “together” you would get would be 2 middle pairs anyway. There are so many ways to spend £472!
There is no way I’d spend £472 to reserve seats in CS. As others have said, there is no bad seat and that money would be much better spent elsewhere especially as US is expensive at the moment. You know yours kids. If either has any special needs then you might feel differently. There is 3 years’ difference between my two kids. At that age, they wanted to be as far away from us as possible, and still do!
Couple of years ago we flew in CS to SFO from Heathrow on a day flight, kids were 12 and 14 and yes i paid to reserve seats across.. what a waste of money!! Probably spoke to my wife twice and rudely interrupted the kids a couple of times by giving them the thumbs up when they were watching a movie….they had the middle pairs – i am defo with the consensus – save the cash and go for a nice family meal in LA instead!
Thanks all, that was the way we were leaning so def going to save the money. Still think it’s crazy you don’t get to pre book a seat in business.
Another vote to save the money. Not worth the additional money in club suite. Same reasons as everyone else. You can have a great time with the saving doing something nice in LA.
Also worth remembering that if you cancel or change your flight, you don’t get a refund of seat fees!
Save the money – it might buy you breakfast in LAX! 😎 (So expensive the last time we went).
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