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Great TR! Reading all the misadventures and lucky saves got the adrenaline going! That F lounge lentil soup looks identical to what I scooped out of the silver pot in the MEL QP the other day. Even by Qantas Club’s ever diminishing catering standards it was ordinary!

I provided two recent PNRs and within a couple of hours received this non-committal response, which reminded me a bit of how hotels respond to 3 star tripadvisor reviews. Your feedback regarding the lack of paper towels in the men's bathrooms has been noted and will be shared with the relevant...

I received an initial response from Qantas customer care within 24 hours which sounds very similar to other replies mentioned here. They also ask for my PNR. The only reason I can think of for that is for quality control to see if the paper towel complaints are coming from people who have...

I just submitted feedback via the app and look forward to the canned response. If the lounge dragons don’t look too busy next time I pass through a lounge I’ll mention it to them too. And @Seat0B yep it’s same old 1022 with a new username :-)

On my most recent flights I noticed empty tissue boxes in both MEL J lounge and SYD QP. I also observed that the two hand dryers in the gents in the MEL J lounge are placed too closely together for two people to comfortably use them simultaneously unless said gents are rather good friends...

My MEL-SYD-MEL flights a few days ago had the new modified version along the lines of "Welcome to [City - (English Name)] Qantas acknowledges the original custodians". In Sydney the CSM added "...the Gadigal people". Landing in MEL was just "traditional custodians" Basically just dropping the...

Just catching up. Terrific TR so far. Your dhow cruise pictures brought back memories of exactly a month ago to the day....warm sunshine, clear water, delicious food, true relaxation. Quite the contrast to a cold drizzly night at home in the Dandenongs after a busy work week with the first man...

Very much noted if we head back to Oman!! In fact I've just saved my e-visa email just in case!

You’ve dashed all my aspirations to ever set foot in a CL with this utterly prosaic photo!! I thought they would have had staff on hand to present the refined CL denizens with fine Egyptian cotton towels before offering an express manicure. “Shall I feed sir some grapes in the meantime?”

That is definitely the smug look of someone who would decide that hand towels were an unnecessary extravagance to provide to customers

I was about to comment that at least they could have gone from the nice thick paper towels to the Tork ones in order to enhance but retain most people’s preferred hand drying option. But then I donned a beancounter’s hat for a moment. It’s not just that they save x cents per paper towel that...

Oh I also noticed new foot door opener hook contraptions on the bottoms of the doors to the gents this week. I only just put 2 and 2 together that it might relate to the removal of the nice quilted hand towels as a nod to the seeming increase in germ phobia in society. (Gruen has done a few...

Perhaps just coincidence but all the paper towel dispensers were empty in the MEL QP when I was there on Tuesday and again must now in the BNE J lounge the paper towel dispensers were conspicuously empty. Coincidence or enhancement?

Botanic in Adelaide remains on my bucket list, even after two visits. I'm willing to wager it's the most exciting fine diner in Australia at the moment. I'm in two minds whether the latest incarnation of Gaggan in Bangkok is on my list or not. We've eaten at one of the previous locations and...

My most surprising offer of a double instead of a pre-booked twin room was in Isfahan, Iran of all places. Just a very straightforward enquiry from a receptionist who clearly clocked we were a couple. To be fair, the Abbasi Hotel is one of the campest buildings I think I’ve ever stayed in...

Wow. Thanks @AFF Editor That’s an exciting result to kick off election day 😅 Thanks to everyone who joined the trip to Oman vicariously too. I love the TR threads and learning from each other. Some 2026 plans are brewing for 1022+1 and I thanks to @RooFlyer’s Namibian TR which I think also got...

Thanks folks for the encouraging words. @kookaburra75 I'm sure a lot has changed in Oman since the '80s. And I'm sure that much will still be very familiar when you return. @Seat0B 2 Do stay longer!! Two weeks visa-free wasn't looking like enough for us once we started planning, so we applied...

Concluding thoughts and remarks Thanks for coming on this Oman journey. I decided it was a good one to write a TR for seeing as Oman remains a relatively unknown destination for Australian travellers. WY and Oman as a country also don’t have all that much written about them yet on AFF. With WY...

The Long Trip Home I won’t go into so much detail about the journey home which effectively commenced once we boarded our flight from Khasab to Muscat as the domestic and international Oman Air flights were fairly similar to the previous ones, the Muscat “Airport” Novotel was like any other...

Thanks VPS. It’s been enjoyable putting it together and encouraged me to take more photos than I usually do on holidays