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Property: Hilton Surfers Paradise Room booked: Standard king Status: Diamond Rate: $268 When: October 2025 Received: Suite (not sure what it is actually called) Excellent one night stay. Staff very friendly, hotel/room clean and well appointed. Bags were already in our room when we came back...

Yeah, we do that as well, but if someone takes the middle seat, it doesn't matter, we keep our aisle seats and just don't communicate with each other for the flight! We've just been glued together for several weeks on holiday (or are about to be) so who needs to chat more? But if I need to have...

So worse than VA J in every way. (I think that the VA lounge in CBR is very nice, with very friendly and helpful staff. The only downside is no ham for the toasties.)

Just noticed that SYD helpfully provides real-time security wait times on its website:

To be fair, that queue in the insta video is insane.

SQ A350 LH J seats have to also be flipped over for bed mode. The 777 seats are more spacious than on the 350. But, yeah, the 350 has a much quieter cabin than the 777.

You are not going to motivate Qantas to improve by everyone continuing to fly with it.

Stacks available on VA all day 6 May:

Bless. You kept flying Qantas on the basis of Qantas keeping its promises?

Yeah, I had that the other day, it was really nice.

But, see, that's the thing. You still chose to fly VA. So the Bain strategy is working.

Train?

Yeah, very important particularly with yoghurt in the low pressure cabin, and definitely qualifies as a micro hack. Have the tab pointing towards the seat in front, and pull up and towards self.

Stayed at Sydney Hilton two nights ago. First time since the new exec lounge opened on L1. Our room upgrade was actually a downgrade. It was to exec floor (L36) in the area where the old exec lounge was, and where they have now squeezed in more rooms. Our room was much smaller (narrower)...

Yeah, we get it mate. You really don't like VA, and will never fly them again...

Just looking at renewing ours (a couple, ie two people) now. Cover-more through Virgin Australia seems okay at $618 for the Plus cover, jumps up to $907 for 45 day trip duration. QF twice the price.

Email received one hour ago. Bye bye NAB. Edit: ten minutes later, Mac Bank a/c opened and balance transferred over from NAB.

Nicer than the Qantas SYDint J lounge.

No problem if you can be finished breakfast by 6:30am, express checkout, then not more than 20 minutes to any gate in T3 (unless you suffer option (c)!).