Speaking of airports and flights..... I went up to the Gold Coast a fortnight ago with Virgin, got there in time, checked in, boarded the plane, all good. We arrived at the Gold Coast at 1.30 pm (GC time) but were unable to land because of poor weather and visibility and the fact that there were 6 planes before us waiting to land. We were told over the speaker that we would be circling the airport until the 6 planes before us landed. Two hours later, we still haven't landed and are then told that the 6 planes before us have been diverted to Brisbane airport but becuase all flights to Coolangatta have now been diverted, Brisbane is unable to accomodate our flight and that we would be returning to Sydney. We return to Sydney and by this time, it is 5.30 pm Sydney time and we are then notified that all flights into Coolangatta are cancelled and that the only way we are getting to the Gold Coast is either wait for the first flight the following morning or catch a late flight tonight to Brisbane and then get on board a bus which will transport us to Coolangatta (paid for by Virgin). However, Virgin did go some way to softening our experience by giving us $100 worth of food vouchers which we could use in the food court and on board the plane (we had $50 leftover on the flight home and were ordering everything we could to use up the vouchers!!) So after calling the car rental company to have our rental car changed to be picked up at Brisbane, we boarded the last flight to Brisbane, which departed at 10.00 pm. We got to Brisbane at 11.00 pm local time, picked up the car, and got to the GC just after midnight. Totally knackered, we all went to bed by 1am, only to be woken up at 5.30 am because some dickhead had lit up a smoke in their room and set off all the fire alarms. Great start to the week-long holiday!!