2026 travel plans

[Seat0B]

Planning to drive from Portugal through spain to Granada

We did this in December 2024 and it was fabulous. Be sure to stop off in Cordoba if you have time.

 

[GDSman]

I liked ‘Joey Tomatoes’

Last day in Calgary and I’m at Joey Eau Claire (they’ve dropped the ‘tomatoes’ from the name). Caesar seems the way to go…

 

[drron]

Spending a bit more time today on our December trip this year. Have decided to run. down my points so today I booked the Hilton Orchard with EL.
Leave’s only ~ 400 hhonors points.
Still have 650000 IHG points and with airlines down from over 1 million at VA, AA and SQ. to 500000 VA, 400000 at AA and 350000 at BA.

 

[Forg]

Flight to Yewrop is now 1 week from tomorrow … the world seems to be pretty consistently at about 3wks of jet-fuel reserve, chances of flight via Hong Kong being canned are pretty low … we have even made our meal choices!

 

[clifford]

Well, I've finally managed to rid myself of all my booked flights through the ME.

The last to go were Pegasus (refunded in a matter of days), Sri Lankan (refund took about 6 weeks), Aegean (just a couple of weeks) and a VA reward on QR. In each case the amount of refund received was equal to or more than what I expected.

All have now been replaced by flights on BA, avoiding the ME.

 

[Forg]

Just checked-in for our flight tomorrow, for trip to Zurich/Lausanne/Lyon/Strasbourg/Brussels/London ... as both of us have zero status, we decided not to wait to get to the airport to check-in due to my wife's experience about 7-8 years ago where she couldn't check-in for her flight to Montreal from Sydney 'cos she was on a flight from Seoul when electronic check-in became available (don't ask why that even happened - "government") so by the time she physically checked-in at the airport all the J seats in the replacement-aircraft were assigned to people with more Air Canada status than she had so she ended-up back in Y and the government got the refund so she didn't get anything at all out of being downgraded ...


*takes deep breath after really long sentence*

 

[Warks]

As I posted elsewhere VA1 (SYD-DOH) is back tomorrow after an absence of a couple of months. Hopefully it will still be flying in August when we head off so I don't have to book those Air China tickets to Stockholm via Beijing. We're flying J so Mrs W would NOT be happy.