I hope it all goes smoothly for you and you enjoy your time on the Costa del Sol.
I'm afraid anybody who had similar idea's of arriving early and having time for a meal, would have been disappointed two weeks ago and all they would have done, is stand in the queue even longer.
There was no consistency because on entering the country we were directed to approach the desk together and have both our passports checked together, but leaving the country you had to approach the desk singularly.
As you can image it was a very long and slow moving queue having ONE man checking passports of two plane loads of passengers, whose flights left within minutes of each other (approx 500 people?)
The fact that the check-in desks hadn't opened early, just caused one almighty backlog.
One man checking passports, but we had the gestapo in force in the scanning area, who were getting stressed out with the backlog.
Apart from pointing out the chaos, another point of my post was to warn anyone who has anything in their suitcases that they shouldn't have, and under the illusion that it will be a breeze sailing through Doncaster Airport on a Sunday afternoon, they had better think again.
I'm still annoyed over this, little things do tend to annoy me

I've already warned my hubby that should it happen again, I would not answer questions of which 99% they already knew the answers or go with the herd.
Sanji