Today counts as a success!
The taxi arrived at out house about 10 minutes early and despite taking a very odd route through the centre of Leicester got us to tge railway station we'll before the anticipated time. This meant that we could get an earlier train to Sheffield.
EMR we're being miserly with the sandwiches and I had to go and ask for them. Not that the Ploughman's Roll was particularly appetising when I got it.
Anyway - arriving at Sheffield I discovered it was a simple cross platform change onto the Northern service to Hull.
Arriving in Hull a good hour before I intended left us with a dilemma - twiddle our thumbs waiting for the bus, or splash the cash and get a taxi. Taxi it was, just over a tenner and no, his card machine wasn't working, and he only had a pile of coins change - I'm not sure how taxi drivers get away with this nonsense.
The terminal staff were very friendly and tge security was best described as light touch but thorough. It's confusing how many times you have to show different combinations of passport and boarding card though.
As we have a 'state room' we also get a personal concierge (called Dan) - we're not sure what to do with him but he is available to help us with any issues we have on the journey....
The room / cabin is very nice - not quite up to the Stena Commodore cabin though. Annoyingly the double bed is pushed against the wall on one side, so it looks like I'm going to be climbing over Mrs Mike during the night!
We've got dinner booked for 7pm.