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I’ll get one if still available.

Property: Conrad Hong Kong Booked: King Deluxe Room Received: King Executive Peak Suite My go to HK hotel, always great and generous with upgrades. Nice to see same familiar faces in the exec lounge, some work there for 15+ years! The lounge doesn’t offer good wines but has decent coughtail...

Decanting about half bottle each for tonight to drink with slow cooked Bolognese. Will be interesting to compare these two great producers side by side.

They put a tag noting my flight and seat number then placed the bag in the are where duty manager sits during check in time. I should note that was flying F and only had one bag.

Had similar issue last year Ex MEL. A week prior I was at the airport on a different matter and went to SQ desk to ask if it’s ok to drop my luggage earlier on my coming flight next week. I was told it’s not possible to check in luggage during an earlier check in but they can keep it aside for...

Very nice 👍 What’s the winemaker coupon?

Best lounge for quality spirits I’ve been to post Covid is Conrad Tokyo. Photo taken June 2023. Pre Covid they served Yamazaki but we’re in a different world now… 1713675734 Like I said, maybe I got lucky 🍀 or just asked nicely 😉

Early October 2022 I think was final days of Oktoberfest

There were definitely spirits when I was there and canapés were great. Maybe I got lucky 🍀

Munich is a good example but depends which Hilton you’re referring to. Park is indeed pretty bad but City exec lounge is great. Can’t remember the airport one, it’s been a while. Will revisit in July.

Thankfully most of my trips are to Asia and Europe so I get to avoid US lounges for the most part. Australian exec lounges are somewhere in between Asia, Europe and the US. Not bad but certainly not great.

Agree. The best Hilton lounge in Australia is Sydney and even there the food is pretty basic and alcohol is cheap. Exec lounges are nice place for me to hang out when traveling solo for business but when on holiday a nice dinner outside is preferable. Quality must have improved a lot under the...

Yes it used to be one of my favourite redemptions. Luckily QF started direct flights Ex SYD and it’s not too hard to score seats in J if booking in advance.

Anyone knows if any of the 350s currently flying to BNE is LH version (not regional)?

Slowly consuming my LM balance with another booking Ex-ICN. For some reason there’s decent availability from Korea to Europe (apart from TG phantom awards). ICN-FRA-LIS OZ J / TP J 75k miles plus $US83 taxes.