Search results

Of course still need to check the board or re-check your preferred app closer to boarding time. In BCN last month, boarding gate was not shown on departures board, but listed in a couple of apps, along with inbound plane. That all changed and about 1 hour before scheduled departure the new...

Although to be fair no one is talking, or as ever seriously talked about a HSR network covering the whole of Australia. The more realistic of the pipedreams seem to cover Newcastle-Geelong axis, which takes in about 1/4 the population of Spain and about 1/3 the area. The problem isn't just...

Similar to last year, but some blackout dates and excluded routes: https://www.singaporeair.com/en_UK/sg/ppsclub-krisflyer/kf-flight-redemption/ 😡👿Notably, as with most Spontaneous escapes as well, MEL-SIN is excluded from the campaign. 5 flights/ day and nothing for this campaign! Not...

There are actually three lounges that can be accessed by someone transiting from HAM to UK. The first, in the A gates accessible after arriving is in the Schengen area and is average at best and wouldn’t recommend it - probably the lounge that many would consider “appalling”. However, afree...

For some reason I find LX good and quite enjoy the LX non-Schengen E lounge at ZRH, especially if the terrace is open, nice to have a drink r two on the deck overlooking the airport (although the better lounge is for star gold, not biz pax). However the UK flights seem to go more often from...

For the first AS-AS connection at SEA, is the inbound sector truly international, or from a (major) Canadian airport? If the latter it's for all intents and purposes a dom-dom connection.

There is a strong linkage between these two problems, for a good number of the homeless. But really there seems to be two types of homeless people, that calls for potentially different solutions: - those who just can't afford a home, are doing the best they can, living in a car, or a tent or...

Although under UK261 not every passenger on that aircraft is entitled to compensation. Those only travelling as far as SIN would not be covered by UK261 rights. If Australia had equivalent regulations - they would be.

Thinking the same. Presumably only to people at the margins - if you had 2000 Accor points and no further plans to stay at a Accor property and were 30 Airpoints short of a redemption it might work. But you can make a similar argument about any airline transfers. $71 AUD for 2500 QF points...

I think financial microaggressions sums it up. We have three excellent repeat guests each year that book directly with us, and the probably another dozen or so via Airbnb mainly who've been by and large pretty good, and we have great cleaners. So still worthwhile. I guess for every $100 a...

Semantics. Someone pays a levy on a levy. Whether it is the owner or the guest or a combination of both. The way it manifests in the booking platforms from a guest pov is it one of the many hidden charges in Airbnb, in Stayz you can see the breakdown. So from Airbnb guest pov the owner pays...

Yes they should be able to through check it for you, and hold the luggage in Singapore. If not (and I'm not sure why not), you can collect after arriving at SIN and re-check it immediately as SQ allows early check in of luggage up to 24 hrs before departure at Changi.

Levies on levies. So just discovered this today, we have a holiday house on Airbnb in Victoria. Now the Vic govt introduced 7.5% levy on short stay properties. The levy applies to any payments the guest make to you, including the payment to cover the levy if the invoice is itemised (like...

For those interested in the local trains with open air carriages plying the Bernina Express route, there's more information here: https://tickets.rhb.ch/en/pages/open-panoramic-cars Trains with these carriages operate half of the Bernina Express route (Tirano-St Moritz and vv), 3x daily for...

With this thread in mind, I was expecting a battle with IB's subsidiary Vueling after a delay last month. Flight from BCN to ZRH was cancelled 2.5 hrs after scheduled departure as they were down a pilot. So after another 2 hr battle (were security was called on at least 1 passenger) we were...

Who needs dedicated luggage storage on airport transit services? Globally, that is more the exception rather than the rule. Most of the public transport I’ve taken to/from airports do not have such facilities. This includes heavy and metro rail as well as trams/light rail and even buses.

Very much like Roma Termini or Milano Centrale stations in Italy, except there's usually more than 180 people stampeding for the train, and you have people alighting from the recently arrived train as well heading in the opposite direction. Chaos in the way you expect in Italy and one of the...

Venice, for the reasons you mention (various tour groups that have all sorts of ways of reaching the place), is probably not so bad, and I don't think you can narrow down a nationality - whether it be Americans, Chinese, Italians, Russians, Australians, Brits or Germans or anywhere else all can...

We have three regular groups that originally came to us via Airbnb or Stayz and rebook directly with us each year. They are the best guests to have - both in terms of knowing they will look after the place - and we can be a bit more flexible without the constraints of the platform.

Been a host for years, but really thinking twice about Airbnb now that I've been on the other side of the equation. On our trip to Europe last month, we mainly stayed in hotels but had a couple of Airbnb's interspersed because of location, access to laundry and that there were 4 of us (us, a...