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The safari part of the trip is the one I spent the most hours researching, trying my best to balance budget with the experience. I found safaribookings.com invaluable with a wide range with useful filters. Ended up choosing the Khaya Ndovlu lodge3-night tour which though not the cheapest, made...

We had an early pick-up from the hotel for our minibus trip to Hoedspruit. Its a 6-hour drive with a couple of stops. The first had an opportunity to see a little game in the distance.

I had booked the hotel some time ago, choosing Radisson as I had VIP status due to the Avolta status match (Avolta status also due to a status match). It's a pretty smart hotel and both rooms were upgraded from a very cheap base rate to the Exec floor. Our timings meant we missed the lounge but...

Queues in JNB are moderate. Its after 2200 and my plan to take the hotel shuttle bus is scuppered. Mrsandye's friends have spent the previous weeks telling her how dangerous Jo'burg is. She was not somewhat alarmed when I strode off to the central taxi booking desk (turned out she had misheard...

Dodgy outfit. Need a dressing down

Flight 8 AMS-JNB KLM Y B777-300ER Qf Classic award 18k QF + EUR 249 pp Pax:mr&mrsandye, mstrsandye3&4 AMS pretty busy on Easter Sunday. The taxi driver took us to a side entrance to avoid the queue of cars at drop-off Have a snazzy automatic bag drop that befuddled a lot of pax. The...

Had grand plans of a quick trip into central Amsterdam (never been out of airport) but it wasnt early and we were pretty tired. Settled in at Holiday Inn Express Schiphol (1 award, one cash room). It did the job

It is at a 5k points cost. However with partner airlines, there is always a risk of losing the original flight during reticketing (the One World Award thread is full of horror stories). Less risky with the Hobart call centre if you have access. QR bookings were notorious but moot now you cant...

Flight 7 AGP-AMS Easyjet A320 Revenue EUR 150pp includin baggage Pax:mr&mrsandye, mstrsandye3&4 The PP lounge in Malaga is one of the more impressive ones. Very spacious and good F&B Descent into AMS

Mstrandye1's+1 has Spanish heritage so we had a more fluent time from then on. The youngsters did Australia/England proud on the beach football field (though their Spamish opponents were a smidge younger) then had a dip in the sea (a bit chilly in April. Beach was ok but not Aussie quality...

Went into central Malaga on the Thursday. AFter a very stressful exlerience with an 18-point turn exiting a lical supermaket with the minibus the day before, I'd scoped out thr biggest carparks. But they were closed, traffic was crazy, google sent us down blind alleys, so parked a little...

As I said I had grand plans to drive to various places. In the end though we were just happy to be all together eating great food. Malaga is not like the typical Costa holiday destinations with full English brekkies and the Premier League on screens im every bar. People pretty smart and laid...

Nah. While waiting for the hire. Never asked for one in Spain or any other country before

Can't remember exact details but when we applied for IDL online, we had the option to have faster turnaround for an extra fee (think 15 min v 2h)

Accomodation was good with plenty of room for everyone up the hill from the East Malaga beaches

Pretty long queue in immigration at least in part due to all the Brits not able to access the EU queue due to Brexit Malaga continues with the car hire woes (clickrent via economycarbookings). Half the pax took a taxi. The rest waited about 40 mins amd on reaching desk, we were told we needed...

Flight 6 LTN-AGP Easyjet A319 Revenue GBP 120 pp including baggage Pax: mr&mrsandye, mstrsandye1,3&4, mumandye, sis/bil/nephandye Early start from Diss and shocking weather driving in the coughpy car with erratic satnav Drop most off but take mstrandye3 to Greenmotion. Go into office but told...

I vaguely recall reports of a double-dipping opportunity as all the same company but kay be wrong

Still we made the journey to Diss in Norfolk to see her beloved aunt and her Italian partner, Zio F. Her son and his newish wife were also visiting from Dubai. As usual, the Italian food was amazing (they had moved back from Sorrento where she owned a jewellery shop). We stayed in a cute...

Yes its another car hire fiasco. Get shuttle to the Green Motion office inside the Doubletree hotel. No-one there for 45 minutes (apparently in the car park). Then had to go through the insurance hard sell (don't need as have complimentary via Amex). All sorts of tricks like not allowing key...