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I did have a drive of a friend's new BYD Seal a few weeks ago. Was a nice ride. Wasn't sure about having to say "All praise the CCP" before I could press the start button though.

I wonder if they ever left Dubai?

Pop over? From where? SA?

Forgot to take the black electrical tape to cover up the insanely bright LEDs in our hotel rooms in Vietnam and Cambodia. Of course when there I only thought of it at night in bed, not when I was out in the street near shops. One place had an on button on the AC which was like sleeping with...

I mentioned originally how the airport seems to be built on the only rise in this part of Cambodia. You can see here the embankments around the edges showing how much earth had to be moved.

Travelled to Vietnam Cambodia in March-April 2024. We'd flown from HCMC to Phnom Penh and taken a private car to Siem Reap for our visit to Angkor Wat and surrounds. As the car took over six hours but gave us a nice look around the countryside, we decided it wouldn't be a return trip so booked a...

Just back yesterday from Vietnam and Cambodia. Great trip, with a lot of flights within four weeks. Flew SQ on points SYD-SIN-HAN and stayed in Hanoi, van out to Sapa, back to Hanoi, flew to Danang (VietJet was much better than expected - a lot of online whingers about lost luggage and delays)...

My father used to say that Bentleys were the middle class version of the Rolls Royce produced for the nouveau riche so as to not devalue the RR brand by having people with actual chins driving them around. My father was quite the character...

By the way I managed to see the new Siem Reap Angkor airport this week. I may post some pics in a separate thread. Has quite the "white elephant" feel about it. We only flew domestic (one way from SR to PP) after getting a car ride out to SR from PP. Huge shiny empty place in the middle of...

Makes sense. I was under the impression SQ had a lounge there but when I saw one called "Apricot" and this one I wondered if it would apply. Didn't check for Amex entry, I get one of those per year which I rarely use. 1712284398 I thought about doing something but as we both had tiny hand...

Thankfully I still got into the Gold lounge in T3 Changi. Nothing on my boarding pass but I showed my digital VA Gold card which did the trick. I think there we nothing on the BP due to the counter in HCMC being staffed by airport staff not SQ staff.

Old thread but just in HCMC flying to SIN and SYD on the way home. Gold with VA which got me into lounges on the way over, plus seat selection and priority boarding. This was a points ticket. Checked in at Business this morning and there was no status on my BP. Got to the lounge (Le Saigonaise...

I'm only going to say this doesn't make flying better for anyone. Even the pet owners will have a miserable flight if their animal is distressed.

Yes I thought so. All the booking companies are owned by two behemoths as I understand it. It's like insurance in Australia - all owned by either IAG or Suncorp.

The website had the cheapest rooms at $400 more than we were charged for the week. So not much of a scam for the motel. But Booking certainly runs a number. The motel owner said Agoda was usually the culprit in these cases.

I had a bunch of free nights to use up with my hotel chain. By the time I was travelling again they'd expired them without giving me any notification or any real time to use them if they had. Turned me off going back to them. There are plenty of other chains. Not that they'll notice me gone...

So last June we booked a week at a motel down the South Coast (NSW) through Booking dotcom where we'd stayed the year before. Very basic but amazingly cheap for mid January. As we spend all our time at the beach or out and about it's just a place to sleep. Literally the day before we were going...

"The call is coming from inside the house!"

Booking.com seems to be taking the cake with scams lately. We booked a heap of overseas accommodation for a trip in a few months. About a month after booking we got a message from within the booking.com app that one hotel hadn't been able to process our payment and to please re-enter our card...

Interesting to read of people's experiences. I was looking at some amazingly cheap flights with Scoot SYD to Berlin last year - something below $1000 return but I thought there would be enough "plus plus" to bring the price up into normal cheap territory.