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To go off topic a bit, delegates are starting to tell us flights are becoming harder to find to get into REP for the conferences. 1,000 pax now, and most BKK flights are gone, so we are telling them to head over to DMK, plenty there. SQ is charging AUD1,750 in Y OW for the Sunday. I'm finding...

For the bigger cities, yes, very streamlined and easy to do, but in the world of hotel conference management, places like REP and Kuching are "backwaters". The simple overhead projector is not a problem, but getting in a 14m LED screen is a challenge.

I just got a visa for China, flying out and back from Cambodia. Have a conference where I'm speaking so had an invitation letter and got the M visa. I had no real issue, and it was back in five days, other than the pain of filling in the form and then heading into the Visa office. I could be...

I'm actually Chair of two conferences, both in two weeks' time in Siem Reap. 900+ pax, 130 exhibitors over five days. I see the delegates bring them in all ways; Checked, hand and shipped in. There doesn't seem to be any one formula, although some actually get us to manufacture their posters...

Just made one that has already cost me over $1,000. Using J SQ as my "backbone leg" (my term for my main flight with all the other flights hanging off it) up to Siem Reap and return. Before the return going to China, then back to REP. Change of plans had to add a leg to Kuching out of SIN...

The client accepted the change. I rarely have a trip that does not result, at least, in one change.

I was called to the Supreme Court in Victoria, and they just told us to wait until we were in front of the judge. It was a fairly simple process in explaining the reason, and about 10 of us were dismissed. Although I had the opposite in the past 12 months, I was an expert witness in the Supreme...

Well, like RooFlyer, I did the "plunge" and updated MyFR24. It took me three weeks, along with 4 emails to the help team, but finally updated. I had an old MyFR24 when AFF left OF and I just decided not to update it, or go across to OF itself. Big mistake!!!! Cutting and dissecting Xcel...

I was in and out of CDG the other week, actually on Aegean from Athens T1, then out to BKK T2 a few days later. Travel crowds are getting back to normal, and you're travelling in peak season, so don't cut it too thin. And don't underestimate walking times through CDG. Getting to the airport...

I thought it was a new line of luggage!!!! I think the individual concept of g-t depends on your age, aspirations and, most important to me is attitude. And I split this into "tourist v traveller". The reference above to Contiki, to me, is in the tourist category, like those swilling bottled...

I'm taking my two daughters and granddaughter on two separate trips in the next few months, one to Cambodia, and the other to Japan. They are amazed at how I can memorise the airports, hotels, transport, etc., to the point of being blasé. But what I do love about both of them is that "travel...

It had a lot more barcodes and has never been lost. It has missed about 3 connections as being too tight, but not lost, touch wood. Ironically other bags have disappeared so my theory is they take more care with this one!

Recording trips was something we had to do back in my corporate days in the 1980's. We had a bit of a scandal where some senior managers were booking trips but not taking them and getting the credit back into their accounts. So us plebs had to record our trips along with the boarding passes and...

Sadly after my last trip, I thought my trusty Samsonite Aeris had seen its last cargo hold, and it was time to retire to that "lost baggage section" in the air. Coming off the carousel, the handle all but fell off and was quite embarrassing pushing through customs. But after the tear-down of the...

Well done, that is not bad by SQ. My only experience with them on lost items was I left an early iPod and Nakamichi headphones on the plane. Got to the lounge and hit me I left them behind. No more than 15 minutes after leaving the plane, the lounge staff said nothing was left on the plane!

This is my hoard of Rimowa, and after my daughters advice, I keep a few unopen. A few ring-ins here, but I have another three on-the-go that travel with me as they are good for cables, chargers, etc. I found the latest Qantas one, pictured previously, all but useless. All the other bags...

Agree, the conversion to electric, whether it be car or house, is far too fast. Working in the mining/metals industry, people are going to be in for a big shock as there is just not enough of the metals "out of the ground" to do these massive conversions. The amount of copper alone needed is...

And the "Spirit of Progress", unfortunately gone like the "Southern, Western and Northern Mails". Those were the start of my travelling oh so long ago.

A mix of Sing - Mal - Indo

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