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My advice is to take the points where you can but always check online for cheaper tickets that suit your journey - join each loyalty program when you book and if you can't use the points you have lost nothing. Some FF programs allow you to donate the points to a charity if you can't use them...

I suppose it would depend on which city you were flying from. We can't fly internationally from Perth with Qantas any more unless we go to Sydney or Brisbane. And though we have only flown QF first class once, ( from Perth to Sydney domestic and then onto San Francisco - an upgrade from Business...

We have an annual policy which covers us for domestic and overseas travel and also for a longer period than most policies (especially those included "free" with Credit Cards). It gives us peace of mind. And while talking about essentials - another tip ... we travel with a small four socket power...

It depends where you are starting from. We live in Perth and have found both Malaysian and Qatar Business Class better than Emirates. Qatar is our airline of choice since it started flying from Perth (previously we flew to Singapore and took it from there). The best service, excellent seats and...

I usually check several online booking sites usually hotels.com, booking.com, hotelclub.com.au, expedia.com.au none of which charge booking fees and all seem to have Aussie phone numbers for queries. Once I have found a good rate I then always check the hotel website for their specials and...

I love to find: Shutters or double glazing so that road noise is shut out especially after a 24 hour flight. Again shutters or curtains that give total block out of light especially in countries that have short nights. Enough coat hangers so you don't have to double things up (I always pack...

We travelled to Singapore from Perth (and back) on Qantas FF and picked up very reasonably priced Qatar BC tickets from there. It was really excellent - very comfortable, flight, service and beds and the Doha BC lounge was incredible even though it was a hangar made up until new airport is...

We have used QFF points to get to Singapore and then took Qatar Airways flight into Paris and came home Qatar from Munich back to Singapore to reconnect with Qantas - it was excellent. Service was good. They do sometimes have specials out of Singapore - ours was very low BC fares but sure...