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It’s gone downhill though last few years. Ibis Styles used to be free breakfast as a brand standard, used to get hotel made rocky road on a raspberry jus in your room fridge and gm hosted happy hour mid week, all gone.

Good call, my favorite, got engaged there when it was under the Westin brand as I have previously posted. Locale is easy to get to, plenty to see and eat nearby etc

Next week Wed 11 Feb to Tue 17 Feb 2026 Earn 1,500 bonus Flybuys points on $100 and $250 Vanilla Visa gift cards in-store at Coles. These gift cards can be spent almost anywhere Visa is accepted. If you bought five of the $100 Visa gift cards, you would earn a total of 8,000 Flybuys points...

Oh to have a Time Machine and go back to 1997 when the RBA was instructed to liquidate 2/3’s of the counties gold reserves for $2billion, the gold price was USD$305 an ounce. The government of the day felt gold was no longer in play in world economics.

Made the mistake of checking in at MCY at the same time as the Western Bulldogs were checking their cargo in. Despite my bag having a priority tag affixed, Oceania Ground Force decided it was bulldogs cargo and put it in the designated cargo hold. After an hour at the carousel I submitted a...

Your not wrong, some of the demands being placed on the Bonvoy lurkers are laughable, fortunately they are not responding.

From memory with the temporary lounge MU pax are being redirected during peak periods

BNE has been something of an afterthought for MH for sometime, it’s nice to see certainty to some extent that services won’t be seasonal on substandard equipment. No doubt getting into bed more with QF helps.

Someone forgot to tell operations they may want to put a pause on recruitment...

Agree re viz separation at night, depth perception is not the greatest.

Lunch today ex McY on the 1035 to MEL

Working fuel switches mustn’t feature on the MEL for Air India!

Every time I have travelled with Pauline she has been in Y

Western Bulldogs are flying on VA today

You don’t need to be a local to load a balance on AliPay from you Chinese bank account, just before COVID Alipay introduced Tourpass (see step 5 on the trip.com guide) to use it as a wallet with the caveats that it’s time limited and unused funds are not refunded, so not of much use anyway...

You don’t need to have a balance in Alipay, just a card the Alipay can charge realtime when you use a QR code to make a payment or use Alipay to buy a metro ticket etc...

Foreign cards are not accepted at many places in China, you need to setup Alipay/WeChat pay and then use the wise card as the source.

Qantas website says no access https://www.qantas.com/au/en/qantas-experience/network-and-partner-airlines/china-airlines.html. The plaza lounge was closed for a while when it moved to gate 77 which is a lot closer to gate 74/75 where CI departs

They are not alone in this regard, with AirNz using Wamos for a long period and Springbok and Brunei also using HiFly and let’s not forget Qantas using Finnair! Fact is the aviation market has issues with new aircraft supply and parts supply not to mention space to get servicing done, which is...

As a general rule yes, although some are playing hardball with minimum night requirements and blackout dates. For instance the Sofitel Melbourne, a dated but still very nice property has become wide open on availability resulting in savings of 650-700 in room rates which is a high return on your...