Recent content by rbjhan

Personally I'd say Plaza Premium. With EVA you get The Infinity, which imho is average at best, and often quite crowded. Food is meh... at least in PP you have made to order noodles.

Tenshu has long gone in Kanazawa, but the other parts remain (or have been rebuilt) so I reckon it's still a Castle!

Cash problem aside, wouldn't Airport Express be better for the foot than trying to find uber? It's literally right across the hall when you clear immigration?

Hmmm, in fact I've never counted this 🤣 Let's see, Osaka, Nagoya, Kumamoto, Okayama, Kanazawa, Toyama, Hiroshima, Sendai(does that even count)....

Just need to plan a trip to Shikoku and you'll knock 4 in one go! 😉

How many have you done now? I'm at 6, still long way to go!

I'm going back to Nagano, next month! The Dormy Inn there was great but this time booked a Shukubo instead! Would be fun....

@RooFlyer Toyoko Inn is probably the largest chain business hotel in Japan? I think there are several hundreds of them. It's called business hotelビジネス ホテル because originally the target clientele are businessmen. Other similar ones are Super Hotel, APA Hotel, Route Inn, Comfort Hotel, etc. Daiwa...

Yeah I am not a fan of the Apex suites. Sure if you get the window seat privacy is great, but that's only 33% chance... And the lack of storage is shocking! The biggest pro of this seat imho is no footwell but completely irrelevant to me 🤣🤣

I know interline on separate tickets is a hot mess....just hoping someone might have some first hand experience. So first flight is CI58 MEL TPE landing at 0445. Next flight is CX450 departing TPE at 1250. Both awards, separate bookings though from QFF & QR avios. Obviously I can clear...

Don't you just love people staying near Kyoto Station want to visit Kinkakuji then Kiyomizudera then Arashiyama then Fushimi Inari Shrine then Nishiki Market at 9pm?! 😉

Oh I know what you mean. I was stuck at the dungeon the first time! And it was packed to the rafters 🤢 All the midnight departures to AU & US were there! Only until I got back home and talked to my friends did I know there's another one upstairs and even nicer one at T1. My own fault for not...

Damn those are some funky translations 🤣

CI's main lounge in TPE is the one in Terminal 1. See here https://onemileatatime.com/china-airlines-lounge-review/ It is much better than the dungeon at T2! But even in T2 there's another one upstairs with the other lounges... Edit, add the review from omaat.

Ah yes our first was back in 2014(?) or something...I've been a regular customer ever since!