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Fatima Aziz

UK's biggest family the Radfords dodge Manchester Airport chaos on trip to Disney World

Members of the UK's biggest family successfully navigated through chaos at Manchester Airport for an Easter getaway.

Sixteen members of the Radford clan reached Florida despite previous worries of getting the brood through the long delays.

Mum Sue and dad Noel successfully left their Morecambe home to jet off to a sunnier Florida where the kids can be seen having a blast as Disney World.

Posting on Instagram Sue provided snippets of the journey including some brief shots in the airport, Lancashire Live reports.

Clips show the kids running along the airport travellators, looking out at the window to the their plane and then finally, seated and on their way to the Easter holiday. But it wasn't smooth sailing getting there.

In a recent vlog, Sue spoke from the families home in Morecambe about the checklist of things needed to be done before getting on the plane. One of those tasks included getting a Covid test for everyone.

Speaking to fans in their 'most tense vlog ever', Sue explained that the day before they left for the airport they would have to take 16 Covid tests in appointment slots with an online witness.

The four appointments included four family members at a time and just one negative test could write off the highly anticipated holiday for the entire family. Sue said: "I'm hoping, fingers crossed, that everybody is negative. I can't even begin to tell you how nervous I am about these tests. I did not sleep very well last night because obviously if someone is positive, we can't go and we'll have to rearrange it.

"I keep thinking it won't be the end of the world if we do have to rearrange it, I think the situation with Manchester Airport at the minute is an absolute nightmare and if I'm honest, I'm not keen on doing that because I think it's taking two and a half, three hours, to get through security, checking-in as well is taking about an hour.

"Obviously when you've got sixteen of us, you can well double that, so probably about five hours for us by that time we probably would have missed our flight."

She continued: "I'm not wanting to go through that, I must admit. So I'm thinking, it won't be the end of the world if one of us does test positive, we can just rearrange it for later in the year but obviously the kids will be absolutely devastated."

But no signs of those fears affecting the trip were shown in the short but sweet video she posted. The only mention of the airport madness was in the comments as one person said: "Oh I'm over the moon you are there and safe! The news is horrible re Manchester airport."

Sue replied: "It really is it's awful for all the staff on the frontline getting all the abuse."

The Radfords continue to document their Easter break on Instagram with talk of a Disneyland vlog coming up too.

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