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Status: Gold Property: Renaissance Barcelona Rate: 267EUR/night, Member Rate Stay Longer On Us (7 nights) Booked: Base room (Essential) Upgraded: Urban Superior (bigger floor plan, higher level) Received: 500 points plus a bottle of wine Late Checkout: Was asked if I needed one at checkin and...

I met the spend requirement in the first couple of weeks and the bonus points came through towards the end of the 2nd statement period and were swept into my account on the first Monday after the second statement

Got a $50 wine voucher (expiry 7th February 2026) - looking to swap for a hotel voucher

NZ2 AKL-JFK on approach to landing (absolutely lucked out on this sector - only around 6 people in the entire rear cabin of Y on the Dreamliner so had the exit row for meals/entertainment and next row back for sleep...cabin crew also came around mid-meal for 2nd and 3rd servings of the mains as...

Off topic for SQ so apologies in advance, but re the way boarding passes are heading - in a recent flight in IAH to MEX in Nov ‘24, I had to scan in my passport in the UA app during online check-in and boarding only required face recognition at the gate by a camera fixed to the counter manned by...

Does anyone know what “A Member who elects to earn Miles is not eligible for this promotion.” means in the promotion T&C? Given it’s not points OR double elite nights, but AND?

Got 33 nights booked exactly within the promo period - ooof what luck! Should help me hit ambassador elite this year for the first time 🥳

No idea about aerobus but the pricing for the BCN pass seems a tad on the exy side - unless the bus ticket is for 48 hours instead of 24. Depends where you’re staying, having an extra day of the bus might be handy if you’re going up to Montjuïc for the national art gallery and Miro museum. But...

Forgot about this until I was going through some photos tonight Went wandering about Reforma in Mexico City in Nov ‘24 (as you do) and passed by the Four Seasons and was confused what all the barricades and commotion was about - Paul McCartney was in town and due to exit the hotel (see...

Squeezed in an early May family trip to spend time with my 5yo niece in Hong Kong via plentiful QF redemptions on the MEL-HKG route (and a side day-trip to Shenzhen on a food safari with brother in law). Will be the first time I’ve been back since the infamous protests. Very keen to see how HKG...

Ah that’s unlucky - my 120k bonus points posted to my NAB rewards online account yesterday and I suspect it’ll sweep into my velocity account on Monday

There’s a half lobster laksa for breakfast - and if you ask nicely you should be able to get it upgraded to a whole lobster laksa 😉 Exhibit A:

Interesting. A bit of digging seems to suggest after Lauda’s merger with OS that it was a wholly owned subsidiary and this route was operated by Lauda but with OS livery and the AUS flights were given OS codes, with VIE-KUL-SYD given the honour of flight code OS1. It wasn’t that long ago really...

I am also wondering when NAB will award the bonus? Mid-way through my second month (I met the 1k spend at around 2 weeks after activating the card). Weekly VA points been posting every Monday, but still no bonus…

I believe the last time this route was served was an interesting VIE-SIN-MEL OS operated direct flight with fifth freedom from SIN, which was terminated in 2007. I think there was also an OS VIE-KUL-SYD too… Initially I thought maybe TR figured it would have better EU onward connections than...

Ok not as impressive as the others 🤣 But here’s HAM’s Beatle-Platz

Most memorable moment was def seeing Nadal in 2022 (I think? or maybe 2021 I forget…memories are blurry around that period in Melbourne) and scoring some really cheap tickets. If I recall correctly it was the year we were just coming out of our last lockdown and rules around 50% capacity? So you...

Coincidentally we’re the exact opposite. I did Tel Aviv twice back in the days and glad I squeezed that in in the before times… First was a general touristic trip (including Carmel Market, Jaffa, Jerusalem and the dead sea, which also had the world’s lowest altitude bar), which was a side trip...

HAMBURG! Will be returning to HAM in May and might just check that area out again its been 7 years or so - first saw them on a Beatles tour there along the Reeperbahn…toured the seedy places where they first played long gigs (allegedly) under the influence of copious amounts of amphetamines...

Very true - I think the beer works out to be about 6-8 times the cost it is in Berlin lol Northern winter - what about the year-round inhabited Greek islands ? I did Naxos between Santorini and Mykonos in 2023 and it was dirt cheap and just an amazing island to holiday in…little villages with...