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Flight 6 LTN-AGP Easyjet A319 Revenue GBP 120 pp including baggage Pax: mr&mrsandye, mstrsandye1,3&4, mumandye, sis/bil/nephandye Early start from Diss and shocking weather driving in the coughpy car with erratic satnav Drop most off but take mstrandye3 to Greenmotion. Go into office but told...

I vaguely recall reports of a double-dipping opportunity as all the same company but kay be wrong

Still we made the journey to Diss in Norfolk to see her beloved aunt and her Italian partner, Zio F. Her son and his newish wife were also visiting from Dubai. As usual, the Italian food was amazing (they had moved back from Sorrento where she owned a jewellery shop). We stayed in a cute...

Yes its another car hire fiasco. Get shuttle to the Green Motion office inside the Doubletree hotel. No-one there for 45 minutes (apparently in the car park). Then had to go through the insurance hard sell (don't need as have complimentary via Amex). All sorts of tricks like not allowing key...

Flight 5 GLA-LTN Easyjet A319 Revenue GBP 65 pp including baggage Pax: mr&mrsandye, mstrs andye1,3&4 Another early start after our 2 nights in Scotland. Arrive to drop off car and its closed with no key drop! Drive to GLA, drop off the family then back again. Easyjet baggage drop mercifully...

Mrsandye's sister and family live in Alloway, the birthplace of Robert Burns. Burns House and a pretty pub called the Brig O Doon are nearby. We didnt visit but did go to Dean Castle (small but interesting arms and armour display inside), Boswell's restaurant (mainly to see the Highland cows)...

Again I went with the cheaper car hire option (drivalia) at Glasgow. Pick up shuttle pretty easy with lovely driver. Get to the yard to he told the 7-seater we ordered hadn't been delivered. There were only 5 of us so not a big deal as long as there was decent luggage capacity. But we waited...

Flight 4 LHR-GLA BA Y A320neo BA award 5250 Avios + $35 pp Pax: mr&mrsandye, mstrsandye1,3&4 Car drop off pretty smooth. Able to go to the T5 Plaza Premium using our 3 Amexes. It's a long thin lounge. Breakfast time food is better than evenings. Probably the least comfortable of our flights...

Spent first London night at sisters in Woodford. As I expect with most family reunions, it wasn't an early-to-bed one. A bit of to and from about what to do the next day but eventually all agreed to the Cabinet War Rooms. I know Chuchill is a bit on the nose in Aus given he was the big backer...

So a generic offer. That seems pretty appealing. As @cruiserelite says the travel insurance is good for most. And add in Centurion/Plaza.Premium that's a lot of people you can make happy. My professional personal Charge is limited in its supps so if I'm eligible, I'd be signing up for sure. I'd...

Next travel mistake. Had booked a car at LHR from Green Motion. Not as classy as the big chains but often half the price. One of the issues is that they are a fair way from the terminal and the shuttle is infrequent. Decide to get an Uber but give directions to the wrong Holiday Inn. Bit of a...

Flight 3 SIN-LHR SQ Y B777-300 SQ award as above Pax: mr&mrsandye, mstrsandye3&4 SQ Y is always a decent option with reasonable seats and good service though sometimes exxy for revenue. Mrsandye doesn't think the food is as good as it used to be. IFE is pretty good (EK is the benchmark here)...

That's the most generous charity one I've seen in a while

Flight was good and SIN is always a decent transit (well except during the covid cattle-pen days) Have gifted my second Amex Priority Pass to mstrandye1 (who is in London and going off for Eurobreaks regularly) so instead of the other third party lounges, we took the skytrain to the Plaza...

Flight 2 DPS-SIN SQ Y B737-8 Max SQ award 55k KF + $32 pp (for whole DPS-SIN-LHR) Pax: mr&mrsandye mstrsandye3&4 DPS is a shocker for lounges so we settled into a coffee shop. My tendency to use NATO when spelling things out led to one of the boys finding the Antiphonetic alphabet which kept...

We had an early flight to leave. We had decided to cut short our Bali stay to give us another day in UK (award flights changed easily) but despite me letting them know, the transfer car didnt arrive. Needed several phone calls, eventually getting through to an LE bloke in Melbourne and it did...

We did go to the beach. It's not bad but I have several better on my doorstep. Boys had a bit of a surf. Although there the waves weren't huge, there were some very obvious (to us) rips. No red and yellow flags though signage to say dangerous current. Of course, time and time again, people would...

We went to another Accor Plus restaurant for dinner. The Moonlite Restaurant is at the top of a building overlooking the beach, with good sunset, posh by Seminyak standards and the food was pretty good. (cant find pics I'm afraid)

It probably would have worked but the UL agent was late and I got twitchy about my bag so ended up clearing immigration and picking bag up myself. All very smooth. Off to QR lounge on the skytrain as we speak.

Another LE inclusion was a free massage in the same building as the Indian restaurant. For some reason, mrsandye was quite sure that I wasn't going to be having my massage alone so we had our treatment side by side. I've managed to go 55 years without having a professional massage and it was...