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Haha my wife and I have been to India many times. But.. I am yet to convince any friends or family to come with us. To quote my father, "India? That's the last place I'd want to visit!" However, the typical Bali or pacific island resort holiday doesn't appeal at all to us. Sitting around a...

Booking award travel with an infant can be quite tricky even if you know the lingo. I think your average joe public could easily be caught out. I also agree with the above that none of my relatives and possibly most friends too would know the difference between a PNR and an actual e-ticket...

Flew ex SGN on Bamboo last year and they had a little LAGs check table set up at the gate with no real security or proper lines. Just walked right past in a scrum and wasn't stopped. Just more ridiculous security theatre. Staff clearly didnt care.

Yep I posted about a similar issue in 2022 when they had 4 pairs of flights TSV - BNE; a mix of QF mainline 737s, QLink 717s and Alliance Ejets. I think in the end 4 flights went - the 717s were subbed out for the E190s but they also had pairs of 737s listed simultaneously so no idea what that...

Yep stick it to them. I find it horrendous that in the absence of decent consumer protections they get away with stuff like this. Like their MO with involuntary downgrades from J to Y where they calculate the refund based on a jacked up Y fare and not whatever sale fare may have been available...

We had issues like this with Uber in India in 2019. Drivers couldn't see the destination until they accepted the ride so they would either ring you up first and ask where you were going or they would accept the job then ring up and ask you to cancel if they weren't happy with the destination. It...

I almost did this on last year's trip but I was scared off by the hoards of tourists. A few years ago (2016??) I played an arcade style train sim on the Nintendo 3DS where you got to drive the Eizan railway and it has been on my bucket list ever since. The game was a bit mediocre though! Looks...

The A330 is arguably more comfortable in Y with its 2-4-2 layout but of course this being AFF we'd all prefer to avoid Y where possible 😁

Agree, I found it cheaper even to buy a separate flight on QF than the VA offering from NH. But I also prefer to stay the night at SYD beforehand so factoring in a hotel it is a bit more expensive but so much more relaxing not worrying about missed connections. I guess if it is a protected...

I remember that it was quite hard to book from Australia, they took phone bookings only and even with google translate we couldn't make it work. I ended up somehow emailing through a credit card authorisation that I made up and translated, which wasn't terribly secure so a bit risky but they...

Haha sure - I have dug some out of the archive. Our route was from Nagasaki to Sasebo, we then rode a local train back. It's interesting see the old Nagasaki station in the pic below, we went back there last month and I didn't recognise the place - a huge modern elevated Shinkansen station now...

Thanks for a great TR. I also rate Shikoku, particularly at the moment when Japan seems overrun with tourists. Yep I see the hypocrisy in that we are those tourists! But driving across Shikoku recently, we felt we had breathing room and the scenery was spectacular. Highly recommend driving the...

Enjoying this detailed trip report. We just came back from a Shikoku and Kyushu road trip but with a toddler in tow so quite a different experience to the relaxing onsens of your trip! Still had a fun time though and speaking of Kumamon we brought home two stuffed Kumamons. Also a Tama from the...

cough beer selection in most lounges. No I don't want to choose from 5 mega swill lagers or the awful 150 lashes with its weird quasi ale chemical vibes. Give me some decent craft options please.

Haha yep did this with some VA flights last year. Booked in Feb for March and because the days of the week are the same for both those months (unless a leap year) I didn't realise I was accidentally booking February. A day after booking got the check-in SMS; luckily they were nice to me when I...

Just flew NH 890/ 889 SYD-HND-SYD and a couple of internal NH flights and pleased to report that all status and points posted to Velocity within 2-3 days.

Yep had to do this for flights ex-ZQN last year

QF pub in SYD tonight fairly busy. Slight delays across the board due to an hour or so of single runway ops but back to normal parallel ops now. Also quite impressed with the kids corner as have toddler in tow.

Haha don't think Dash 8s have reclining seats? Although some have window shades and some don't..

Yep I think we gave him some pesos, which were actually worth something in those days!