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I know interline on separate tickets is a hot mess....just hoping someone might have some first hand experience. So first flight is CI58 MEL TPE landing at 0445. Next flight is CX450 departing TPE at 1250. Both awards, separate bookings though from QFF & QR avios. Obviously I can clear...

Inspired by a conversation with @VPS in my previous TR, I decided to try write about all the different trains... Hopefully can convince a non fish eating train lover to visit the land of the rising sun! 😉 This is going to be long and probably entirely depending on how my memory is nowadays (and...

Yes, it's me again. The one who goes to Japan every year 🤣 Things got moving when I found some amazing availability on QF29/30 back in February. I had no idea why...looking back it must be when the flights were restarted and loaded back to system? Anyways, got my tickets to HKG sorted. Then I...

Hello friends! It's me and another Japan TR 🤣 I know I know, got asked all the time, aren't you getting tired of Japan? WOULD I NEVER.... Actually this was only my 2nd time in Japan during Spring! Why? hayfever 🤢 First one is here.. However during covid I got a bit crazy and booked this trip...

3 weeks after almost 3 years! In fact I've mentally given up on this one seeing Japan kept playing chicken with their borders...Finally the announcement came! Couldn't believe my eyes... And I got award seats on Qantas, ha ha. Pre COVID that almost never happened...downside is they are not...

First time staying in a Melbourne hotel! ;) I don't normally do staycations, but with the possibility of my Nov trip actually going ahead decreasing by the day, I am getting desperate....so much so that I decided to do this (and a shopping tip to Chaddy of course). Classic King Room, 1004...

Okay that was in Nov 2014. Trust me I asked myself this question many times before, how did you not visit before?! Well I first planned a Japan trip in 2011, but then the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami happened...☹ July 2014 I started planning again, wanted to go in November. I thought 4...

Keeping up with the theme of old TRs, managed to find pictures of this trip in one of my backup hard drives. This was however before I discover AFF or anything similar, so there will be no pictures of flights and very few of hotels I'm afraid.... Cathay to Europe, in Rome, out Paris. Rome -...

I am really bored....so next TR is here! MEL-NRT return by JQ Narita - Kanazawa - Kyoto - Takayama - Toyama - Mt Tateyama - Matsumoto - Tokyo. As the name suggests, there were two main focal points in this trip. First half was Chasing Sakura (from Kanazawa to Takayama), 2nd half was the...

Now that we are all stuck at home (most of us?) I can't even begin to plan the next trip, it was supposed to be in Nov this year, but who knows?! I can't deal with all the virus news anymore o_O So I decided to write a TR for this one...hmmm.....when there was no face masks, no hand...

Okay I'm exaggerating a bit, but really people wearing masks everywhere was...hmm...certainly something I've never seen before :eek: Booked the trip back in June 19, although the virus news was unsettling, I decided not to let it ruin my holiday! MEL-TPE, CI. TPE-NRT, JAL Nagano, Myoko Kogen...

So I actually booked this trip back in Jan 2019. Everything was set, I am flying JL774 to Narita in two weeks' time, 2 nights in Nikko, then 5 nights in Miyagi prefecture, back to Tokyo for 2 days then take the Sunrise Express sleeper train to Okayama, before flying from Takamatsu to Hong Kong...

This was actually the Christmas long weekend 2018, yeah another of my delayed TRs ;) Fairly straight forward trip, MEL - SIN return on SQ 3 nights in Conrad Centennial. Wondering about in Singapore...more on that later.

Went to Brissy for a weekend, trying to escape the Melbourne winter.... I stayed at one of their Marvellous Suites, the property has a number of suites all the way to their Extreme WOW suite, I wonder who is paying the $4500 asking price for it? Floor plan There's a bathroom just at the...

This was a trip taken a while back, 2 years ago to be exact :p But I've never done a TR for it so why not? Another slightly different Japan trip hopefully can give people some ideas to visit this wonderful country. It was before Qantas (re)started the MEL-NRT route (!) so I had to transfer via...

This trip actually took place in Feb, before going to Spain. But I got into planning mode almost straight afterwards so apologies for being tardy o_O The itinerary: MEL - NRT JL774 Tokyo - Karuizawa - Myoko Kogen - Kanazawa - Osaka - Kyoto (Hoping to see lots of snow but that didn't happen!)...

First trip report here :cool: Hopefully I can do it right! So back in March I decided to go to Spain in May, hmm 6 weeks is not nearly enough planning time! But I managed, somehow. The itinerary: MEL - NRT JL774 2 days in Tokyo HND - LHR - MAD JL41+IB something Madrid - Segovia - Avila -...