CL wrote:

> I have had good luck getting nearly free tickets to Gib from Gatwick
> thrown in on my BA multi-stop ticket purchases.

Hmm. Sounds interesting. Now, how did you do that?

>  From experience, I DO NOT recommend doing Narita -> Heathrow
> -> Gatwick -> Gibraltar as a straight-through multiple connection
> unless you're into insomnia as a lifestyle and enjoy it when your kids are
> at their whiny best.

Well, we'll be staying in the UK, so it doesn't matter which London airport
we use. I have a kind of pathological hatred of Gibraltar, so I'll avoid
that if possible.

> The Malaga airport is so far away from anything else that you have to
> add in at least an hour of driving to any schedule you make ...

We'll be staying in a village inland and will have a longish drive no matter
which airport we use, so that's not a big deal.

> and the car rental people seem to only ever have dirty Fiat Multiplas
> for you to drive.  And every one of them smells as though they'd been
> rented out as chicken coops for the previous week.

I rented beauties for peanuts on previous occasions; having lived in
Andalusia for years I can kind of smell out the best deals!

The real issue is, can we get there for the cheapo prices that are supposed
to be around these days. Once we're there, pues, la bendita gloria!

John