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    Experiences with flights BA16 and BA15

    Flew BA15 on 10th March. New seats on the 777 were comfortable enough, crew and food were nice enough. Only problem being with over 70 seats in the cabin dinner service dragged on for nearly 90 minutes from beginning till end. So if the water you ordered with your meal did not get delivered not...
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    How does Marriott treat you as an elite?

    Sorry! late to the party, but I've bid on a coughtail masterclass experience at the Ritz Carlton Melbourne. I bid the opening bid and won it. The experience was fun, very interesting insight, into designing a coughtail list. Plenty of amazing coughtails to try by head bartender of the 'Gold Bar'...
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    Book a trip to Egypt/Middle East

    When I was looking for November travel in December last year SIN was coming in at nearer $5k, though it would have been my preference if I could have gotten for $3K for sure
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    Book a trip to Egypt/Middle East

    I booked Qsuites in November ex KUL for $3240 it was a little more expensive ~$50-100 than BKK but easier and quicker to get to KUL.
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    Marriott Bonvoy 2025 Q1 Promo

    I just googled the double status night promotion and the link was there to activate
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    Article: Why is Dynamic Currency Conversion Even Legal?

    Well I got ripped with a Malaysia airlines booking the face value of what I purchased in Aud was not what was charged to the American Express. Amex got their 3% and MR got their roughly 7% After receiving the e-ticket there is a note at the bottom. so $4934 face value was charged at $5436...
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    Can you book QF awards on other airlines 360 days in advance

    Hmmmm, consistently inconsistent. It has worked for me many times, but very frustrating.
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    Can you book QF awards on other airlines 360 days in advance

    I find, using multi city tool, pick the last day listed on the matrix, select it and then move through further into further dates from there. Be prepared for lots of errors with the website, but it is possible.
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    Qantas Courtesy Upgrade Love

    My first and only Op Up I ever received was the first flight I ever took after joining QFF in 2000 Mel-Ool. I refused it and sat with my friends down the back :) Maybe that's why no love since.
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    Qantas Cabin Baggage Survey Results Email

    I've had this in QF J row 1 so no floor space, row 2 had 4 bags neatly spread out across the overheads, luckily I only had a small soft bag that I could squeeze in and my partner had a small hand bag :\
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    Qantas Upgrades - Successes or Failures (post results)

    My daughter SG plus companion, QF1 SIN-LHR 13/1 Y to J - no success. But at T-12 message received that they had been upgraded to PE.
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    Japanese Yen - Cash

    Exactly the $350 cash was all I needed, no fees on the Apple Pay transactions and was accepted everywhere.
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    Japanese Yen - Cash

    +1 To the Wise card pre loaded and withdraw from ATM over in Japan. Also use it for Apple Pay in store.
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    Finnair’s Business Class AirLounge seat

    We as a family did QF295 back in July. Daughter (16) did not like the seat prefers QF A330 seat. My partner and I thought comfort for sleeping was good, though I found the footwell cramped (middle pair I'm 180cm) I did not like the padding in the seat itself felt too firm and not forgiving...
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    Everyday Rewards Targeted Offers

    Do woolies sell sticky rice? I've never seen it My latest offer: spend $230 collect 1700 EDR thats a bit rough.
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    Qantas Upgrades - Successes or Failures (post results)

    I think it is that the 29th is a Sunday the 30th loads are a lot lighter
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    Qantas Upgrades - Successes or Failures (post results)

    QF-29, 19/09 WP, Saver Y to J all three of us confirmed T-60 loads were J9 C9 D7 I5. Return on QF30, 29/9 not looking good loads J2 everything else 0
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    Limo service Melbourne

    I have been using Southern Cross on and off for about 20 years, good and reliable.
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    Amex unexpectedly imposed a credit limit

    I had this block last year when B2BPay had a glitch that made future payments get transacted immediately and in duplicate about 120k in one day. B2B pay rectified but it was too late and triggered a limit of $13k by Amex. I had to wait 6 months for the limit to be removed so by their...
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    Qantas adds Brisbane-Manila but suspends Sydney-Shanghai flights

    Thanks for the reply, tried Qantas call centre again got HBA got assigned some seats from their end further down the plane. Went back to CX website and as I had an assigned seat I could now select any seat in the cabin so all good now.
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