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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...

It's probably not the total numbers, but the concentration and characteristics of cruise ship visits that make them singled out. They tend to be in greater in number in summer (as are overall tourists as well), tend to have limited time in port (say 9-5pm +/-) thus concentrating the presence...

Just check your departure gate before sitting down to breakfast. Anything from A1 to A10 or B1 to B6 should be only a 5 min walk or so from immigration. I’d be entirely comfortable with leaving hotel at up to about 6:45 (even with miss 5 yo slowing you down probably be at gate within 25 mins)...

Was in Barcelona a couple of weeks ago and whilst it was busy the main sense of over tourism came when encountering large groups who have this uncanny way of being oblivious to everything around them except what there guide is telling them to look at. You have to either go around them or shove...

I don’t put a lot of effort into them. If they work they work, if they don’t they don’t. It doesn’t cost much effort to join a program and include a number in the booking. When I was travelling 2-3 times a month for work, it took some time and effort to optimise, but now personal travel is...

That's very shi##y for the passengers on board (sorry, someone had to make the remark).

Also LTS and LTG are different again as the status credits neither help attain or retain their current level - more about the level above.

🤣 Yes indeed. I have had quite a few QF operated flights, but only classic awards. Although as I live abroad QF really don't meet my needs (and LTG achievement happened shortly after moving) so there is that ... and the fact that they don't operate any daytime flights from Asia to...

80 Status Credits, no points. LTG with virtually no points or SC earn on QF metal for about 10 years (have had more recent earn on JQ though).

Somehow I think the timings of the flight are to optimise connections at CAN. So a 2150 departure from CAN and 1225 arrival back there almost certainly provides feed from all across China.

There’s probably a correlation though between those who can afford to pay for F seats with cash and those who can generate the significant number of QFF points to make F redemptions and pay the large surcharges that come with them.

I’m guessing that JFK scheduling would similar to Qf 3/4 and therefore be relatively straightforward and curfews wouldn’t affect that (even if they existed at JFK in addition to SYD). Early afternoon from SYD, late afternoon arrival into JFK turn around to become an early evening departure...