In a new style of offer, Hyatt is offering personal promotion targets in its Stay More Play More promotion. To find out which you have received you need to go to this page and enter your Gold Passport Number. Go to the next page and all is revealed. The period for stays is January 15…
Major London Bus Strike – 13 January
Transport for London has announced that there will be a major strike by bus drivers in London next Tuesday, 13 January. Bus services will be affected between 00:01 and 23:59 on Tuesday 13 January – affecting services throughout Tuesday and night bus services into the early hours of Wednesday. You should expect the tubes and…
British Airways London to Miami, Club World
Taking advantage of BA’s pre-Christmas seat sale I managed to snag a decent number of Tier Points last weekend with a short trip to San Francisco. Booking on the American Airlines UK web site allowed me to both (a) create a more complex routing than normal and (b) secure one of the domestic sectors in…
Holiday Inn, Heathrow
There are a number of Holiday Inn properties around Heathrow Airport. The one I usually use is properly called the Holiday Inn Heathrow and their web site is here. I stay as they have nicer rooms than the nearby Ariel, although the transport is more problematic if you plan to use the local buses within…
Got what it takes to be the new GM at the Hyatt Place Heathrow?
Due to open in late 2015 the first Hyatt Place in the UK is to be located close to Heathrow Airport. The 170 Room Hyatt Place Heathrow/Hayes will be the first Hyatt purpose built for the chain in the UK in recent years. It will increase their properties to 4 in the UK. Hyatt is…
Happy 2015 – although it is zero hour for many schemes
First let me thank you all for coming here to read the blog in 2014. I hope you will continue to enjoy it in 2015 and encourage your friends to come across here too. For many schemes it’s zero hour at 00:01 when they reset you stays and miles for the year, throwing down the…
VS43 Emergency Landing – YouTube footage from inside and outside the aircraft
VS43 Virgin’s Gatwick to Las Vegas flight, experienced a problem on take off yesterday with its undercarriage. After dumping fuel it returned to Gatwick to land. Apart from a spectacular landing yesterday from the pilot – after a little bounce on the runway – what is also interesting is that there is social media from…
Looks like Flyertalk is going to get its ‘Like’ button
About a week ago I wrote about a proposal doing the rounds at Flyertalk – a like button. At that point the ‘No’s’ had it – as they say in the House of Commons. However, clearly a lot of FT members have been bored with their Christmas Gifts and the ballot is now going the…
My 10 Best travel experiences for 2014
I wrote yesterday about my worst experiences in 2014, and so now I would like to balance those with the best. Let me start with a bit of a cheat. Whilst the news of Hyatt’s ‘Free for all internet’ came in 2014 it won’t start until 2015. However, it’s such good news and probably a…
My worst 13 travel experiences of 2014
As we come close to the end of 2014, and my rotation as a featured blogger also draws to a close, I wanted to share with new readers some of the worst of my travel experiences in 2014. (Tomorrow I’ll share the best, so that we can all go out on a high note.) New…
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