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That's terrible! I've found one to be more than enough :D

re: The view from my "office" The circular Quay area lights this year are as good or better than ever but the crowds seem to be even more ridiculous. We've been each year but it's getting to the point where there are so many people it's hard to enjoy.

I love trains but for those short journeys from Heathrow away from London we use the national express coaches. Cheap as compared to the train, quicker and pretty flexible ticketing. I think last time there was a 5 pound fee to change to any bus within 24 hours of the original booking. It's a bus...

The Townhouse in Wagga Wagga has complimentary access to the pool and gym across the road. Can't vouch for the gym but the pool is a pleasant spot for laps.

Doing my bit for world peace. Though I'm not convinced it was ever claimed to be fine dining, Movida (Melbourne original) may not be as good as it once was. But Movida at the airport (Sydney T2) is a very welcome addition to my way of thinking. Fwiw except for the occasional visit I'm over...

HNA are in acquisition mode by the look of it. I think they were also the recent purchaser of the Carlson hotel group and club Carlson. Is synergies the buzzword for this sort of thing?

That is a pretty reasonable bargain

Most recent booking through Qantas hotels was one night in a family room @ Rydges Sydney international for an flight connection. Paid $406 non refundable rate. Around $450 for same room and rate on booking.com and Rydges own site. Didn't need to knock myself out for the 9pts/$ either :D. I'm...

I've no idea how representative of all pricing it is but I regularly find cheaper pricing on the Qantas hotels website than direct or with other aggregators. The points are a bonus esp. during the special offers.

We have a few miele appliances. All over 10 years old. Never had any problems or service calls. The wm is built like a truck and is an absolute cracker. Maybe the build quality has gone down.

There seems to be a pattern of human interaction being a primary factor in crashes and incidents over the last couple of years. Even the saves seem to be heavily related to the safety 2 approach. It's probably a easy cognitive bias to suspect it again. Equipment failure is out of fashion.

We will be there on Friday night. Very much looking forward to everything but the crowds. They are incredible compared to the early years.

Thanks for all the comments. Glad I'm not the only one that finds it a mystery. Here are the seat maps for the flight from QF and EF. I can select an exit row so it doesn't seem to be just status related. It is about t-75 now.

I jump on at t-80 to select a better seat for our daughter (bronze) for domestic flights. About 2 or 3 months ago I noticed that instead of being released immediately the seat availability seems to trickle through. Random seats seem to open up over a period of hours. I can see from EF that the...

My experience is that more often than not they don't appear to have any knowledge of selections made before the flight. However they always seem to have what I wanted anyway. So I'm not sure of the value of the pre select thing.

Sounds very nice and I'll give it a try. My favourite is braised with some butter and a small amount of chicken stock for a short while. Then just salt and pepper to serve.

Whatever the colour please don't put a ribbon on the handle :)

You might have just been unlucky. I've called a couple of times this week (including today) and no mention of a fee for seating someone next to me. Call again probably. It's not unusual to get a different response.

I'm obliged to insert the "bet responsibly" thing here and put me down for 41 by cob Friday. At the risk of invalidating my wager I would note that everytime I fly internationally I have to fly a connecting leg as I don't live near an international port. If I fly internationally on the day my...

I hope not