OK, we should take advantage of the Tuesday deadline for flights then.
I'll try one more time this afternoon to see if anyone can tell me about possible insertion of a Saturday Gatwick flight - if nothing doing we'll go with the Murcia option. Noon departure gets us in there just after 15:00 local? With a two hour drive plus an hour pfaffing about that puts us at the hotel around 18:00 local time. A bit of a rush but still in time for the traditional number collection and meal at El Stadio.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph