A little known UK based hotel group operates a number of hotels around the UK. Typically not 5* properties, they often offer excellent value mid-week and off-season. However, they have started to do a number of good value stays with parking for 8 or 15 days from several UK airports. Included are: Aberdeen Birmingham London…
Edinburgh Airport re-opens after bomb alert
It appears that Edinburgh Airport was evacuated earlier in the day due to a suspicious bag being transported by a male passenger. The link to the BBC article is here. BBC reports: It is understood the authorities are working on the theory that the passenger being questioned about a suspicious package may have an innocent…
Air France First Class – or when your thunder gets stolen….
Some years ago I completed a challenge from KLM which lead to them matching miles with the frequent flyer scheme that I held at the time which had the most. Over time, these changed in to Flying Blue miles and I ended up with a lot (read nearly 4 million). I have used these up…
Hyatt published Elite member rates
As promised Hyatt has uploaded their Elite member rates to the web site. Available on Basic rooms they are supposed to be 10% lower than the regular rate but as shown in this example below from Johannesburg it can be higher (20% here): This does represent a real saving, even if limited in some aspects.…
Hyatt, El Segundo – or LAX – Superb Service!
Why, you might ask, is my last Hyatt stay of the year at a Hyatt Place, in the middle of nowhere, but near LAX? The view from my room was of planes arriving at LAX (FedEx here): Well that will become clearer in my post tomorrow! However, I have to say I was quietly delighted…
Is the Andaz Wall Street as bad as View from The Wing says?
In November Gary at View from the Wing blog wrote about the Andaz Wall Street. His review depicts the property as having reduced their service since they opened and that it had got bad in recent months. (Interestingly the GM stopped by to make some conciliatory comments). I had been sitting on a stay for…
3 young people learn about the need to check your tickets
The BBC are reporting that young performers in London’s New Years Day parade have been stuck in the UK for the past couple of days because of errors in the names on their airline tickets. (Tickets, who has tickets?) Bearing in mind that they arrived in the UK from Panama without problem, it does seem…
Early Saturday Morning visit to United Club, La Guardia.
Around 2am on the Saturday morning that I was leaving New York for LA, I received a text message from United to let me know that my EWR-LAX flight had been cancelled and that they had booked me on a flight 2 hours later. That was weird – as my immediate thought was why put…
Check your email for 5% off BA sale flights
My mailbox contained a 5% discount code this morning from BA. Check yours.
January Travel Plans
Some months ago there was a mistake fare from Mahe in the Seychelles to Dublin, in Business Class on a mixture of Air Seychelles and Etihad. The trick was arranging a flight to get me there, but luckily United’s partner Ethiopian came through with a routing from Dublin, via Frankfurt and Addis Ababa with Mileage…
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