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    How well do you sleep on planes?

    Pretty much nonexistant, even lying down
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    Hokkaido

    Worst case ATM exchange rate is all good, even better if you have a card with no international fees
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    The most surprisingly good restaurant you've discovered while travelling

    I'd never be able to find it again but I swear I had one of the best curries in the basement of Nagoya station in a little stand up joint
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    Bonus points on Qantas flights for Points Club members

    Nothing here, but I did notice I was not subscribed so have changed that. Default for anything is do unsub from all correspondence
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    Back to Japan and Korea

    Himeji's an awesome castle, just went there earlier this year. You can train and back in a day no problem. We were staying in Osaka so pretty quick. From the train station you can taxi, bus or simply walk to the castle it's not that far.
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    Flybuys Targeted Bonus Promotions

    I haven't had any offers at all appear for the last 2 weeks, Flybuys forgot about me 🤣
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    Seats.aero - a useful tool for finding Qantas & Velocity reward availability

    Sweet, for some reason some of those changes aren't showing up but at least filtering by value of points is very useful
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    Seats.aero - a useful tool for finding Qantas & Velocity reward availability

    With the new Classic Rewards Plus I presume (hope) seats.aero will offer an option to block those flights out so we can just search for the original classic rewards?
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    Expertflyer vs Seats.aero

    seats.aero works for me, well worth the pro account. Have easily paid its value off in no time
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    10,000 Woolworths rewards points for a travel insurance policy.

    Still waiting :( Might have to contact them soon..
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    Churning - when the golden goose stops laying

    AMEX likes to reject at random, don't feel too bad about it
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    Hokkaido

    Using Suica (or similar) is pretty easy for lots of stuff, vending machines, conbini etc it's quitre useful if you don't want to lug around cash. Credit card is fine at the main sort of places, friend of mine was using Wise basically exclusively without issue. I agree with one of the previous...
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    Hokkaido

    In my experience it seems these days most of the hotels (chain ones anyway) are non-smoking unless specifically mentioned otherwise. Toyota rentacar is one of the more popular rental car chains, you can find them all over the place and they are happy to rent to foreigners, provided you have your...
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    10,000 Woolworths rewards points for a travel insurance policy.

    Nope haven't seen any for my final/last one
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    10,000 Woolworths rewards points for a travel insurance policy.

    Data point, have now received 20k ED Points > 10k Qantas points not sure if they combined multiple redemptions or not.. waiting on some others to come through to see
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    10,000 Woolworths rewards points for a travel insurance policy.

    How long roughly after the trip do points usually come through?
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    Which airline to prioritise

    Go for an Amex? Then you can use the points on various different airlines and not locked into one single program.
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    Has QANTAS given up on their website?

    For me Qantas never works in Chrome but works on other browsers
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