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I reckon this. I received two emails for my VA flights this week, both booked in Y on 737s, advising they were now operated by a Fokker (the one that says prepare yourself for the antique Alliance plane with no food/booze service, WiFi, or IFE all for the same price as a mainline service 😒). But...

ATMs were often thin on the ground, I remember being in Cambodia in the early 2000s and couldn't find one. Also exchanging before you go wouldn't work for more obscure currencies, I guess you could take a wad of cash and exchange over there but depending on the country they may not want AUD and...

Definitely, cash has got us out of a pickle many times, it's still common in some parts of the world to find ATMs that are broken, randomly refuse our cards, or just non-existent. You can always spend the leftover cash on overpriced junk at the airport or keep for a future trip (oops.. my 200...

Did both HNL - RAR and RAR - SYD a few weeks ago in Y. JQ flight was pretty full but it was school hols. At over 7 hours it was a very long flight on a narrow body in those thin JQ Y seats. At least we didn't have to divert to Auckland to refuel. Saw on flight radar that 3 flights had done that...

Jeez what a horrific experience and I'm sorry that you and your wife had to go through that. Having spent a bit of time driving in Shikoku and Kyushu, I must admit I never once looked behind me while making a right-hand turn, or even thought to look behind me. It is so ingrained to just give...

Yep the US is different, from my research for past road trips I recall they don't have the included insurances we are used to, eg. a $4000 excess that you can reduce further (or have covered by travel insurance). Over there if you don't take out the LDW/CDW I believe you are liable for up to the...

Happened to us in Tashkent, in a relatively flash hotel too. They had stuffed the dates up on our booking and their system had us arriving a day later than what our paperwork said. After pfaffing around for ages they found us a room but when we opened the door we saw a suitcase on the floor and...

Luckily RAR - SYD is a daytime flight. SYD - RAR sounds awful though!

@ luxury-lizard, thanks for the tips, keen to follow along. We will be visiting late September routing home from HNL on the weekly HA flight to RAR then braving JQ direct to SYD :eek:.

Was the case for us too. The family queue was definitely quicker than the e gates on the two occasions we went through SYD T1 last year. Even in CNS last week when we were almost the last pax off the SQ A350, we bypassed the long queue for the 4 E gates and were out within 10 minutes. Felt a bit...

While I miss that CX flight as it was good for OW J redemptions, we flew SQ203 last week SIN - CNS and it was a brilliant 6 hour daytime flight in Y. VA Gold got us SQ lounge access and priority check-in. Flight itself had yummy food, free flowing wines, I watched Dune 2 for half the flight. No...

Just checked and got the same message as you.

Haha my wife and I have been to India many times. But.. I am yet to convince any friends or family to come with us. To quote my father, "India? That's the last place I'd want to visit!" However, the typical Bali or pacific island resort holiday doesn't appeal at all to us. Sitting around a...

Booking award travel with an infant can be quite tricky even if you know the lingo. I think your average joe public could easily be caught out. I also agree with the above that none of my relatives and possibly most friends too would know the difference between a PNR and an actual e-ticket...

Flew ex SGN on Bamboo last year and they had a little LAGs check table set up at the gate with no real security or proper lines. Just walked right past in a scrum and wasn't stopped. Just more ridiculous security theatre. Staff clearly didnt care.

Yep I posted about a similar issue in 2022 when they had 4 pairs of flights TSV - BNE; a mix of QF mainline 737s, QLink 717s and Alliance Ejets. I think in the end 4 flights went - the 717s were subbed out for the E190s but they also had pairs of 737s listed simultaneously so no idea what that...

Yep stick it to them. I find it horrendous that in the absence of decent consumer protections they get away with stuff like this. Like their MO with involuntary downgrades from J to Y where they calculate the refund based on a jacked up Y fare and not whatever sale fare may have been available...

We had issues like this with Uber in India in 2019. Drivers couldn't see the destination until they accepted the ride so they would either ring you up first and ask where you were going or they would accept the job then ring up and ask you to cancel if they weren't happy with the destination. It...

I almost did this on last year's trip but I was scared off by the hoards of tourists. A few years ago (2016??) I played an arcade style train sim on the Nintendo 3DS where you got to drive the Eizan railway and it has been on my bucket list ever since. The game was a bit mediocre though! Looks...