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Ex-SYD. More limited cities from MEL

Just need some advice. Flying MEL-KUL late Tue night ( Wed 00.30 MH 128) We have lounge access from MH since we are flying J - can't remember if it is the Marhaba lounge or not. Also have Amex platinum so we can get in to: Amex centurion Plaza Premium The House ($20 surcharge per person) Mrs D...

Have been trying unsuccessfully to source a decent baguette in Melbourne. You know, the French style ones, where you need a visit to the oral surgeon to repair all the lacerations on the roof of your mouth after consumption! All that I have tried so far are more akin to soft crusty bread. I...

So, I'm on holiday and relaxing in UK. Been to Lord's. Watching tennis and Tour de France on the tele without getting/staying up in the middle of the night. I have time to reflect. Ms Duffa is a mortgage holder. I paid mine off a long time ago. Her repayments have gone up by the 10's of...

Arriving Mumbai and need to transfer to Oberoi Hotel about 25km south of airport. Hotel wants $136 one way and online services are around $40-60. Ubers and taxis are cheaper again but we did the super-cheap Uber in Delhi before Covid and it was terrifying. Anyone know of reliable company with...

Anyone know if these wines are good value - amex has $125 back if I spend $500? Don't recognise any of them. https://www.pendolino.com.au/collections Always worry about the Rivers theory if I cant compare them on Dan's ....

Ok, I know this has nothing to do with flying but my head is in a tail-spin. My child has a HECS/HELP debt of $11,000. Annual salary $100,000 A mortgage at 5.1% with more than $50,000 in an offset account. HECS debt going up by indexation of 7.1% on June 1st Pay off the HECS from the mortgage...

Cheapest flights I've ever seen to Europe MEL - LGW via Hanoi -----$4,444 in business class SYD - FRA via Ho Chi Minh ---- $4,228 in business class Next autumn - Feb Mar 2024 Book via Flight Centre - cheaper than with airline.

So, my first ever A330 QF business class trip in 1 2 1 config. Off to Honolulu in an hour or so. Quite excited to try it out. Hope to get dinner on board. The Sydney J lounge has an insipidly-coloured but surprisingly tasty red curry and a rather sad-looking mac cheese on offer. (Mrs D let me...

I'd like to start a new thread with photos. Here is one to kick things off. Casablanca this morning. J lounge. Shower head - maybe bum-washing head, in the latrine

Funny experience today on my way to the station to catch the Marrakech express train from Casablanca Concierge called us a red taxi. The cheap little beat-up cars that run the locals around. Think Hyundai Getz, 20 yrs old with not a single panel dint free. And no seatbelts. We caught one back...

I've done it again. Sorry I'm so late 50 posts minimum rule Can send one or both

Hi all, I've just flown J to London on Oman Air. But there were codeshares involved. Mrs D flew Qatar to Doha then Oman air via Muscat to LHR and I flew Malaysian to KUL then Oman air via Muscat to LHR; we were split up due to last minute changes - bit of a nightmare Prior to the flights I had...

Apologies for leaving this so late - had forgotten about it. sorry

Paris - Singapore - Melbourne Singapore Airlines Business Class 17th February 2022 RED TAPE Let’s start with the bureaucracy. Mrs D and I have had enough of Covid so came to Paris for a 10 day break just because we can! Having said that, at times the paperwork to get here and back became...

Just thought I would post Mrs D's Covid test experience in the UK last week, the research having been done by me. (If you don't want to read on, I recommend Randox health - www.randoxhealth.com ) There has been a lot of UK press about rip-off testing companies so I did some searching myself and...

I'm trying to book flights from Doha to UK for a relative. I cant get Doha to 'populate' in the FROM section of the booking engine. If I dummy book LGW-DOH return it shows flights but when I try to do the opposite, Doha will not come up. Has anyone else had the same problem? QF Bronze

Has anyone taken up the offer of $100 gift card by converting $2,500 of credit to ready cash for a 0.9% establishment fee and zero interest? My reckoning is $22.50 fee for $100 card. Have I missed something?

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I'm sure everyone knows to check Argus car hire (or Ryanair, who use the same engine) when renting in Europe. I have done so for years and always found them to be a minimum of 25-40% less than the company website (Hertz, Avis etc) Tonight, I booked a Thrifty car through Ryanair (as it was the...