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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...

Recently booked a SYD-TSV flight and at the time I saw that it said BNE-TSV was operated by Air North. I noted it was an Embraer 190 so smaller than the usual 737 I fly on that route. I thought it was just some subsidiary of Virgin like they use to fly to NZ so thought nothing more of it...

I have scarcely rented a car since Covid but I noticed how the big companies renting out of airports seem to have almost doubled their prices since 2020. I used to fly to Townsville a lot for work, every few months or even more often. I used to rent a small car from one of Thrifty, Europcar or...

So the story is back in October booked SYD-SIN-CPH return with Singapore on the cheapest fare available. Fast forward some months and one of the pax has to be in Europe some weeks earlier so no longer needs the outward bound flight to CPH. But will return to Australia at the same time as...

Couldn't find any discussion on this so wondering what experiences people have regarding hiring EVs (electric vehicles) overseas. I'm looking at a Tesla Y which comes in around 20% more expensive than what they show as similar vehicles (RAV4, Forester etc). Given the price of fuel this should...

I was just mucking around with the booking engine looking at flights to AKL in November and kept getting "no availability" or error screens. I was wondering if the site was having a malfunction but saw no other reports. Then I tried a domestic booking and it worked. The light went on - VA still...

Recently travelled to Townsville and Darwin and both airports have full body scanning just like US international airports. This whole process is stupidly slow and seemingly unnecessary especially at a domestic level. We don't have to remove shoes, we don't have to ditch our liquids so why this...

Walked past here this morning at SYD Domestic and it brought back memories. Who remembers what this was some years ago?

So my free Amex flight expires soon and I looked up where I could fly with it. Surprised to see AYQ as an option (Uluru the rock formerly known as Ayers, which was formerly known as Uluru). Got me thinking about a trip out there. Too hot for Mrs Warks so I asked Thing 2 (F19) if she wanted to...

I'd been VA Gold for almost ten years until last year when a decline in flying meant I didn't come close to the 400 SCs required. I swallowed hard and paid for Lounge membership - at $300 it's a better price than QF, albeit without as many lounges (TSV and HBA noticeably absent). A new year...

I don't do a lot of family pooling these days as we don't do much family travel any more with the kids becoming adults in the last couple of years. However I was trying to see if my wife could transfer SCs to me so I'd get over the line for achieving Gold this year. She could transfer points...

I go to the Gold Coast (OOL) once a year for a conference which is always in August-September - not the same dates, just in that period. For the last three years' running I've booked a flight back to Sydney on a Saturday at 1705 and months out VA has emailed me to say I'm now on the 1505 flight...

Just for being an American Express Velocity Card Member, you can get up to 30% off selected domestic and up to 25% off selected international Virgin Australia operated flights*. This includes Economy, Premium Economy, and Business Class. Simply use your American Express Velocity Platinum Card...

I've realised after quite a few years running my own business that I should be using a business credit card. Hasn't been a problem so far and I've always run a separate personal card for my business expenses but apparently I shouldn't be doing that. I've looked at the various offers around and...

Got an email from Velocity saying "Points could be waiting for you" and "Don't leave your points on board" which I've never had before. "Warks, it looks like you've flown with one of our partner airlines recently and didn't earn Points for the flight. Don't let your Points escape you. Simply...

I may be stupid but when I go into either Virgin or Velocity when logged in I can't see a list of upcoming bookings for love or money without entering a reservation number. Surely it's there somewhere. From Virgin it wants the booking reference and guest's last name (it's me!!!) and if you...

I'm looking for decently priced flights to the US next year and I thought "there must be an app for that" and saw a couple online. I was wondering if anyone had experience using these - Skyscanner etc. I did a search here but didn't find anything, not something I've seen mentioned before. I...

After being Gold for the last eight years my flying has dropped off and I'm not going to re-qualify for next year by the end of September. However I will probably be flying more next membership year so I would prefer to maintain lounge access. Apparently I can purchase it as a Silver for a...

Since my eldest turned 18 last year Qantas have been sending regular offers of credit cards with points to him. As he wouldn't qualify on income grounds and would never spend enough to qualify for the points is there a way to get the card anyway? Would I have to go 'guarantor' for the card or...

I've got travel insurance anyway but I've always wondered how the credit card travel insurance would cover you when flying on points. I assume you are only covered if you bought your air tickets with the relevant card but if on points you usually have to pay all the fees, taxes, levies and...