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I landed in Adelaide yesterday morning at 10am for a day trip for Gather Round. I had booked JQ on the way back not thinking I could make the 6pm QF flight (QF744), but landed in Adelaide to find it had been cancelled. Rang the call centre to see if I could get a seat released, knowing it wasn't...

I'm enjoying the report, but I've found it most interesting when you got to Manila - the Phillipines is one of the few places in Asia I haven't been to but am going after Christmas this year.

I've been lucky enough not to use a bus gate internationally from SYD, although I did notice Gates 30, 32 and 34 were out of action for a couple of months last year with works that appeared to be repaving works. Domestically from T3, it is about half the Dash-8 flights, those that leave from...

Although the difference is that this time are doing direct flights rather than stopover. I did MEL-DEL last year and will do SYD-BLR later this year (I'll be going to Mumbai later on in the same trip). I spoke to the CSS onboard Melbourne Delhi (this was in early May 2023, right before it was...

I came out of the promo having booked - J return Classic reward SYD-BLR in July (As Points Club I still get SCs and I think it is 112 each way and that becomes 224). - J Classic reward SYD-MNL on Boxing Day then HKG-SYD on December 30 (48 each way and that becomes 96 so 192 all up). - Return...

Time to close out this trip report. We got to JNB about 2pm and there was pleasantly no queue at check-in or at security...and so, no queue jumpers. We were sent to the BA Lounge and it did the job. Only pic I got was of the shower - certainly beats the hospital-like showers at their arrivals...

Done

I didn't organise it, my companions did. If you wanted I could send you my guide's contact details privately - I'd highly recommend him.

One of a number of cemeteries reserves for anti-apartheid activists. Then we drove through the area home to Nelson Mandela's last house before he was imprisoned. Desmond Tutu's house was nearby and we saw that too. Among other things we saw: - A dedicated busway network that...

After this, we set course for Soweto, it was about another hours' drive and then we just drove around the area for another hour or so, with a few of interesting sites pointed out. This hospital is apparently the largest in Africa and the largest in the world. The cooling towers...

Nelson Mandela is a big focus of the museum, but there are other exhibits too. This one was 'dedicated' to a President in the 1960s who was a staunch defender of apartheid. The TV screen is of a speech he gave after surviving an assassination attempt. He didn't survive another one, only a...

Made it to the apartheid museum. We were told we could spend an hour in here. I personally found that was enough, but I am the kind of person who doesn't like spending hour and hours looking at the same thing, although I've never been diagnosed I suspect I have ADHD. I do respect that for...

Fast forward to the next day - the last of the trip. I was with 3 other people, 2 of whom were staying another 2.5 weeks, but I and someone else had to go home. So we were booked with a driver who would take us around Johannesburg and drop us straight off at the airport in time for QF64. The...

I booked SYD-BLR return in July during school holidays and intend to book a couple of SYD-AKL returns by the end of the promo. I wanted to go to the US around that time or at Thanksgiving, especially as I have some American Airlines vouchers to use. But having done several searches and found...

We had a 7pm dinner booked, so I took the liberty to have a look around the shopping centre and the square. Dinner and breakfast would be at a restaurant called Maximillien that is a flight of stairs down from the lobby. It was a Cosmo and a Chicken Tikka for me.