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On MH perhaps? 🤣:p

If you look at Marriott’s own brand classifications, of the luxury/premium brands the Le Meridien seems most conspicuous of those that are absent from Singapore, then Delta and Renaissance and some more niche brands

For those that have been around for a while, am I remembering correctly that the points loyalty bonus option originally came into being as a replacement for Upgrade Credits which you received upon reaching certain thresholds? (I’m talking 20 years ago or thereabouts).

Does it make a material difference? Rex as it was doesn’t exist any more. It is Rex under administration by EY. i am guessing delisting saves the administrators one step and previous shareholders were not going to see any $$$ anyway.

Now we had some cold weather in early September, and there was plenty of snow in the Alps. Next, I went to the car free town of Mürren, and you can see plenty of snow there. You reach Mürren by travelling to Interlaken (on one or two trains), changing to a train to Lauterbrunnen, catching...

Before returning to the north, stopped off in Lugano. Ended up visiting there several times, including a couple of weeks later when we walked up the adjacent San Salvatore and then later in Autumn (as per second picture) when I caught up with a ex-colleague from Milan for lunch. The...

Now a trip south, to Locarno and Ascona on the shores of Lake Maggiore. It was cool, wet and cloudy late August day in Zurich (about 18/19 degrees, but after emerging from the Gotthard tunnel through the Alps it was warm, mainly sunny day of about 26-27 in the southern part of the country...

Now an "international" excursion to Liechtenstein. Starting of with a hike on the "Princess Gina way" a loop from the ski-resort town of Malbun, before returning via bus to the capital Vaduz. The journey back to Zurich included 2 buses and 2 trains with the connections of 2-5 mins between...

Picking this up again, as it's raining outside and have some spare time! A day trip to Lausanne, and an extended walk along the shores of Lake Geneva, with a few pleasant dips in the water along the way, before walking up through the Lavaux Vineyards, and to the town of Cully to catch the...

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...