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No-one seems to have answered your original question. In my opinion, the answer is Yes, but only if what you're looking for is tarmac views. The views from the Marhaba (Priority Pass) lounge are very good. If you don't care about the view but you want better food, the answer is more...

They can definitely be of benefit on those routes where the Flex fare is substantially lower than the Business fare. For the short-haul routes such as MEL-SYD, though, it's not a particularly useful benefit because the Flex prices are almost the same as, and sometimes even more expensive than...

I think you can change the booking rather than cancelling it, as long as the change doesn't require the ticket to be re-issued. The articles below might help. But if you don't have a specific destination or flight in mind, another option would be to transfer the points to Velocity. Yes...

Thanks @Flyfrequently — there’s a lot of wisdom in what you write. Our tour guide also turns out to be an expert photographer!

What a wonderful inspiring post — thanks for sharing your experiences!

Glad it was helpful! But do I recall reading in one of your TRs that you're not a fan of small footwells? I found the bed decent enough, but be aware that the footwells are quite small.

On the other hand our trip was far from a disaster: far from a disaster. There was a long list of positives as well: As I wrote earlier, if one has to be stranded anywhere in Australia, the Gold Coast would be at or near the top of the list! Our day at the Gold Coast was most definitely not a...

Let’s start to tie things together. There were plenty of both positives and negatives about this trip and I’ll start with the negatives. The negatives can be summed up in five words: bad luck and bad management. First the bad luck. Our flight to DPS from OOL was cancelled at the last-minute on...

Now back to the flight. We boarded on time and I caught the first look of my seat on the 9-year-old Garuda A330-300. The seat was a little bit narrow but otherwise perfectly comfortable. The amenity kit covered the basics – slippers, an eye mask, earplugs, various lotions, toothbrush … you...

Overnight some photos and lots of videos came through of our snorkelling at Nusa Penida on Friday. I've just spent some time creating stills from some of the videos. Rather than modifying the original posts, I'll just post them here... Would you recognise me in the street? Me again, coming...

Well, you're right that daytime Jetstar flights (especially if you do as I do and fork out the very reasonable price for extra-legroom seats) are generally not as bad as they sound! But seriously I'm not complaining. I always enjoy trying out Business Class products that I've never flown...

Garuda flight GA714 Business Class, DPS-SYD. Booked with 40,000 Virgin Atlantic points plus US$78. My flight is at 11:25pm but when I booked the airport transfer I was told that the traffic is horrendous at that time of day so I would be picked up at 6:30pm – five hours before the flight! I...

And then, sadly, it was time for us to split up. My sister, who lives in Paris, decided a few months ago to visit our mother, who lives in Sydney. After she let us know she’d be visiting, and I found availability using Virgin Atlantic points on a Garuda flight to Sydney, we decided that I’d fly...

To be honest, today probably more ticks the box in the “Lessons learned and we’ll laugh about it one day” column than the box in the “Another day in a tropical paradise” column. Let me begin by stating that our son-in-law is a wonderful man in every respect and we are incredibly blessed that he...

I know ... our time here is frustratingly short. I'll reflect in a future post on whether I'm a "Bali convert" or not: stay tuned!

I travel when I need to mainly to visit and look after my elderly mother. She lives in Sydney and I live in Melbourne; she lives independently so I fly up every 4 weeks or so to do chores for her and to generally make sure she's OK. But it's not a burden -- I enjoy even those short weekend...

The final snorkelling stop was out in the open sea, and the tidal current was so strong that there was no way we could have returned to the boat once we’d dived in. Instead, we were told to simply drift with the current and the boat would come to us. The highlight of this stop was the sea...

This was followed by the one part of the tour that I’m in two minds about. The tourists were put into vans and driven a very slow and incredibly bumpy 45-minute drive to here: Then after about 30 minutes, we were driven back. Yes, the view was spectacular. Was it worth a 2-hour detour? I...

Another short trip in the boat and we disembarked here. We were transferred into vans and were driven up the hill to this restaurant, where we had a buffet lunch, and afterwards were given half an hour or so to look around and take photos. I’m a proud Instagram-ignorer, but my guess...

After maybe another 15 minutes motoring in the boat, we stopped again and put on our fins, masks and snorkels. The attraction of this site was the coral. The coral we saw today doesn’t quite compare with the coral you can find at some of the most popular tourist sites in Queensland, but it came...