Charmin! Gatwick can be awful to get to if you dont want to drive. But when we lived in Watford I agreed to a hol to Crete flying from there because we could get the Brighton train right thru.
Wrong. Floods on the line meant we were kicked off the train in London. No advice. I dragged my case around the underground and on buses. Ended up in Victoria with tickets not valid for the Gatwick Express and explained to the ticket man that if he didn't let us on to catch our plane then I wouldn't be responsible for my actions!
He let us on, we caught the plane, just, but I was in excrutiating back pain for the entire hol.
So now I hate Gatwick, the Underground, buses, and Crete!
But I love carrots. Unshoved! Ya know ....